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favor them as native citizens, they would still prefer to be placed on the nobler and broader ground of talent, and they would, therefore, humbly pray that so much of your late vote as restricts the competition to American Artists, may be rescinded, and confined to Resident Artists.- And as in duty bound Y.Petitioners will ever pray.— Sam. F. B. Morse [[strikethrough]] Willm Dunlap [[strikethrough]] H. Inman. [[strikethrough]] Chas. C. Wright. A. B. Durand John Frazee Samuel L Waldo. Frederick L. Agate John Neagle Peter Maverick John Paradise Edward C. Potter Wm. Main. Martin C Thompson