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Governor's Message

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives

Having been entrusted by our fellow citizens with the guardianship of the public interests, we should not be unmindful of the high responsibilities which devolve upon us, nor of the goodness of that Providence through whose controlling agency, all our privileges, civil and religious, have been secured and preserved to promote the efforts of useful industry, to secure to all an equality of rights and to extend the means of general education are the great ends of our representative system of government. In the pursuit of these important objects, an ample field is presented for unremitting exertion; and coming as you do directly from the people I feel assured, that under a just estimate of the responsibility resting upon you as public agents, your deliberations will be characterized by a due respect for the wishes of your constituents, and a strict regard for the highest interests of the State. The tranquil aspect of the Public Affairs, the general prosperity attending individual enterprise, and the steady progress of our State in wealth and population, conspire to render the present period highly auspicious for the commencement, by the State Government, of a system of Internal Improvements, commensurate in some degree with the numerous