I would further inform Your Excellency that an agent has been
dispatched to Temiscouata and Madawaska for the purpose of procuring
exact information of the state of things there at the present moment;
but having incidentally found some evidence of the state of things prior
to November last, I have thought best to forward it without delay for
the purpose of disabusing the Government and the country of the errors
into which they may have been led by the communication before alluded
to. The report of the agent will be transmitted as soon as received,
which may not be short of two weeks.
Under these circumstances, I have only to repeat my official call upon
the General Government for the protection of this State from _invasion_.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, Your Excellency's most
obedient servant,
JOHN FAIRFIELD,
_Governor of Maine_.
[Footnote 64: Omitted.]
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
_Washington, February 27, 1840_.
His Excellency JOHN FAIRFIELD,
_Governor of Maine_.
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