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Appendix. Governor's Message

Gentlemen of the Senate, and House of Representatives, Assembled here as the guardians of a young and growing commonwealth, it is gratifying to remark that your duties relate more intimately to protecting, cherishing, and educating, than to legislating for the deteriorating or corrupted. With a Constitution and law so formed as never to have warranted any objection to their republican character, and but rarely to the wisdom of their authors, it would be ingratitude to propose any speculative views, as it would be rashness to adopt any experimental arrangements, either of hope or discontent, which might operate against our existing system. I am authorized by facts to congratulate you on this occasion, not only on the continued success of our own municipal regulations, dispensing, as they commonly do, the primary securities of all that law is destined to guard & preserve, in its impartial beneficence, but to accord to the United States the acknowledgement of its cherishing influence.