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233. nently requiring the aid of vigilance, prudence, public spirit, intelligence and an impartial integrity in the administration of its government. He who will justly anticipate the vast production of good or evil in such a soil, will be careful as to what he shall plant. And although the intrenchments we have formed and the men who guard them may be destroyed, it is a consolation to believe that such an effect cannot soon or easily be produced and not until the beauty and the benefit of agriculture and the arts, enjoyed under equal rights, shall have distributed much of happiness

                                            Enoch Lincoln
 Council Chamber
Portland January 8. 1829

To the Senate and House of Representatives

     I have the honor to communicate a plan of the Maine Military road, surveyed and located under the superintendence of J. B. F. Russell acting Quartermaster of the United States Army accompanied by a letter from that Officer, addressed to me as Governor of the State.

Council Chambers Enoch Lincoln Portland January 12. 1829