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uations are known to be liberal. The incumbent, therefore, who neglects the duties of his office to promote his private, interest, or to gratify an indolent, inattentive habit, is unworthy the public confidence, and ought not to live upon the public bounty. A proper discharge of official duty requires industry, puntuality [punctuality] and civil demeanour in all official intercourse with the people. These are qualifications which every capable and faithful public agent, who consults the interest of the government, under which he is appointed, will consider indispensable. Our State affords peculiar facilities to those, whose attention is directed to either of the three great branches of industry, agriculture, commerce or manufactures. Whatever opinions may have heretofore been entertained by a portion of our population, whose discontent might be attributable to various causes, in no wise connected with either soil or climate, facts now prove most conclusively that those who sought a milder climate have not profited by the exchange; and that advantages superior to those realized by the yeomanry of this State, are not to be expected. The interests of agriculture, being so intimately and inseparably connected with the interests of the State, will at all times claim the favorable consideration of the Legislature. It is to the substantial farmers that we are to look to supply the exports for commence, a great portion of the raw material for the manufacturer, and the means of subsistence for the whole community, and it is on the enlightened and patriotic yeomanry of our country that we are to depend for defence in war, and stability in peace. Whatever measures may be proposed by the Legislature to advance the interest of so useful and respectable a branch of industry in our State, will