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[Governors Message]

riotic yeomanry of our country that we are to depend for defence in war, and stability in peace. Whatever measures may be proposed by the Legislature to advance the interest if so useful and respectable a branch of industry in our State, will have the most cordial concurrence of the Executive. -

An institution has recently been established in Gardiner, upon a plan, originial [original] in its design, but promising much solid public utility. The encouragement of those arts, by which the labour of man can be aided and rendered more productive, is worthy of the patronage of any government. It is more particularly so in a country abounding in large tracts of rich uncultivated soil on which surplus labour may be advantageously employed. As the benefits to be derived from this institution will be realized by the agriculturalists and the mechanic it may properly be considered in connexion [connection] with these employments as promotive of the public interest and consequently entitled to the public patronage. -

The success of manufacturing establishments must eventually be as interesting to this as to either of the States in the Union. The products of these establishments have already excluded from importation a great proportion of foreign cotton and woollen [woolen] goods of the coarser kind. The manufacture of the latter article in all its varieties and qualities would seem to be equally as important to this State as to either of its neighbours. Our climate requires as a great supply of woollen [woolen] goods, of every description; and our farms will yield the raw material in as great perfection, and with as little expense. By attention to this branch of industry, the agricultural interest is promoted and a substantial benefit results to the whole State