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Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. - Called again to the exercise of the Supreme Executive power of the State, I cannot, under the peculiar circumstances of the present occasion, refrain from acknowledging, with humble thankfulness the kind and paternal care of an overruling Providence in behalf of this people as well through the past year as through those which have preceded it. - Whatever of affliction may, from time to time have befallen any inconsiderable portion of our Citizens, yet, as a community, we have been highly and wonderfully prospered. health has generally prevailed throughout our extensive territory. The seasons have been favorable for the cultivation of the said. The store houses of the farmer have been filled with the fruits of his labor, and the honest industry of the people in all the various branches on enterprise and business has been abundantly rewarded. Since the meeting of the last Legislature, we have witnessed a new organization of the General Government under circumstances favorable to the prosperity of the Country. -The position of Maine as a frontier state, it's very extensive commercial interest, owning already more tonige [?] than either