"It may be necessary to inform the reader that Mr. James Hall, of Cincinnati, has lately published a work entitled 'Statistics of the West, at the close of 1836.' It is not the purpose of this Appeal to animadvert on the body of that work ... it is intended to notice some of the remarks contained in its preface. ... [which] is almost exclusively devoted to severe reflections, levelled against an article in the Western messenger, for May 1836, Butler's History of Kentucky, and the North American review, for July 1836."--p [5].

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