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item of expenditure since 1821, would seem to justify an appriation [appropriation?] for this object. In closing this communication, permit me, gentlemen to congratulate you on the increased stability which the Union of the States has derived, during the past political year, from events which seemed for a time to threaten its integrity. The wisdom firmness and moderation with which they were controlled, by the vigilent [vigilant] and patriotic Chief Magistrate of our National Government without compromising the constitutional rights of the States, justly merit the gratitude & applause of the American people. Let us also, in the stations we respectively occupy, look to our written Constitutions as the sure guide of all our proceedings, and to the popular voice for all needful direction therein. Confiding in the intelligence and patriotism of the people, let us not be unmindful that to them are we responsible for the just exercise of the powers entrusted to us. And while as the guardians of a highly favored community, we act together for the public welfare, let us unitedly implore the Supreme Disposer of human events, that he will so controll [control] all our deliberations, as to preserve unimpared [unimpaired] our inestimable privileges, and the principles of our representitive [representative] government forever. Robert P. Dunlap Council Chamber Augusta Jany. 2d. 1834