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| − | mind, that a continuance of our common and public blessings, depends, under Providence upon the intelligence and virtue of the people. In accepting the situations which we now occupy | + | mind, that a continuance of our common and public blessings, depends, under Providence upon the intelligence and virtue of the people. In accepting the situations which we now occupy, as members of that branch of the Government empowered to enact laws for the common welfare, we assume responsibilities that can be discharged only by a faithful and industrious attention to the public interests, by a due regard to the situation of our fellow citizens and by exerting all our official influence on the side of morality and good order. In thus performing out respective duties, we may expect for ourselves the confidence of our constituents, & for our State, the blessings of a kind and superintending Providence mrateven [?] difference in opinions there may be relative to measures of minor importance, all will unquestionably agree in those which promote the public tranquility and guard the public morals. As a community we have reason to hope, that the moral and relative obligations of our citizens are not more frequently violated; that the evils of vice are not more extensively felt here than in other parts of our land, and, that with us, the influence of the example and correct habits of our ancestors, aided by the restraints of Laws, but more especially by our system of general education, has had a salutary effect. Let it be our care to strengthen the barriers which our predecessors erected. |
| + | Under the law to provide for the erection and government of a State Prison, passed by the last Legislature, | ||
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mind, that a continuance of our common and public blessings, depends, under Providence upon the intelligence and virtue of the people. In accepting the situations which we now occupy, as members of that branch of the Government empowered to enact laws for the common welfare, we assume responsibilities that can be discharged only by a faithful and industrious attention to the public interests, by a due regard to the situation of our fellow citizens and by exerting all our official influence on the side of morality and good order. In thus performing out respective duties, we may expect for ourselves the confidence of our constituents, & for our State, the blessings of a kind and superintending Providence mrateven [?] difference in opinions there may be relative to measures of minor importance, all will unquestionably agree in those which promote the public tranquility and guard the public morals. As a community we have reason to hope, that the moral and relative obligations of our citizens are not more frequently violated; that the evils of vice are not more extensively felt here than in other parts of our land, and, that with us, the influence of the example and correct habits of our ancestors, aided by the restraints of Laws, but more especially by our system of general education, has had a salutary effect. Let it be our care to strengthen the barriers which our predecessors erected. Under the law to provide for the erection and government of a State Prison, passed by the last Legislature,