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Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives

It is fortunate that the order of nature which use ably requires the agents of private business once in the revolutions of the seasons to revise their concerns and prepare for the demands of an advancing period, should have been initiated in our political institutions the effect is that the wisdom of the Legislature is called to review only such brief terms of expedience that the connexion between causes & consequences is easily traced. remedy can be applied to evil almost at its commencement, and the great check of responsibility is rendered in the highest degree effectual -

The Constitution having rendered the field of ambition tenable only for so short term it may, if for no other reason, be expected that the public spirit and pure motive usually carried to the threshold of officer, will be preserved, that the obligations created by patriotism will not be abandoned to party, the felicity we enjoy be immolated to prejudice or our trice State policy abandoned for any purpose of inferior importance -

Looking first to the administration of this government, allow me to place these questions before you. What has been the official conduct every public agent, each of whom is directly or indirectly amenable to you. Have the members of the executive department been diligent faithful, and discreet? Have the judiciary directly expounded the Laws and preserved inviolate the right of jurors, parties, and witnesses & has every citation received from all the public functionaries the attention and respect due his merits and his character as a man and as a republican & it is believe that these questions must be answered favorably but if not both offices and systems in the nay of reform mill require the corrective application of your constitutional power it