Excerpt from The Poles in the United States of America: Preceded by the Earliest History of the Slavonians and by the History of Poland
The publication of the present essay, announced a' year a 0, has been delayed by the hope that the Act of ongress, granting lands to certain exile: from Poland (approved the 30th June, 1834) would be executed before the intended publication. But although that hope, placed in the august body repre renting a people which but recently went through the ordeal of a revolution, has not yet been realized, 1he committee of the Polish exiles in this country desirous, notwithstanding all disappointments, to fulfill their romise, respectfully offer this short statement 0 the condition of the Poles in these United States, to all those whose °udgment and feeling enable them to be friends of, an unsuccess ful butjust cause.
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