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There must now be more than four hundred thousand inhabitants in Maine situated as they are, although the general, or, as it is called, State are is small, it is nevertheless the of act, that there is a most unusually liberal contribution paid in labor and in money towards public improvements, by the various modes and to the numerous objects prescribed by the interests of the several divisions and subdivisions of out political corporations, and by the generous and patriotic character of our citizens. The weight of this burden, is borne voluntarily and with great spirit. It is however heavy on the first settlers and the yeomen, who are planting and tilling more for the fruits and harvests which will have ripened after their busy action shall be exhibited by them no more upon the fields, than for themselves. The whole complex moral need not be deduced, nor the many applications of such a view to our duties here be made. It is enough to say that the norty persons alluded to, may reasonably expect all the exemption and protection your may perceive to be consistent with their duties, which, of course cannot but be in accordance with the common welfare. It may therefore, be presumed while they are proceeding gradually in subduing the soil, conquering the climate, and subjecting the elements to the control of industry and mind they may be left untrammeled by unnecessary governmental arrangements and severe exactions.