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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