Had any foreign state or power committed a similar outrage upon us, we cannot for a moment doubt that the strong arm of the General Government would have been stretched out to redress our wrongs, and we flatter ourselves that the same power will either redress our grievances, or shield us from harm in our efforts to regain our lost property, which we fairly purchased from the General Government.

Finally your Memorialists, pray your Honorable Body to take their wrongs into consideration, receive testimony in the Case and grant such relief, as by the Constitution and Laws you may have power to give.

And you Memorialists will ever pray &c. [p. [5]]