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Index Governor's Message Gentlemen of the Senate and House Representatives In assuming the discharge of the responsible duties assigned us by the suffrages of our fellow citizens, our first emotions should be thankfullness and gratitude to the Beneficent Disposer of events, for the continued peace and prosperity of our common Country. As a constituent part of the American Republic our own State partakes of the general happiness and from year to year to year we have increasing cause to be satisfied with our condition as a people; and interest and patriotism both conspire to augment our attachment to the Union of the States and to render us more devoted in the support of that Constitution of Government which has hitherto surmounted every difficulty and conducted this nation to a state of freedom and prosperity unexampled in the history of the world. As many important concerns directly interesting to the people of this State, are placed by the federal Constitution under the control of the General Government we cannot be indifferent to its measures and proceedings; and the sentiments of the Legislature of a State, deliberately expressed upon subjects