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[Governor's Message]

should public sentiment justify it, of such patronage as our resources may admit.

In consequence of the general revision of the laws, the last session of the Legislature was of unusual length. I trust we shall be able to transact all the necessary business of the present session in a much shorter time. Whatever aid within my power to dispatch the public business and to bring the session to a harmonious termination, will be afforded; and it will be my most anxious desire, as I have no doubt it will be yours, that the result of our united labours may conduce to the peace and security of our fellow citizens. The situation of the financial concerns of the State, and several other subjects which will claim your attention, will be reserved for a future communication.

Blessed with a healthy climate, a good soil, and superior commercial advantages, we have every reason to look forward to the high destinies of our State with pleasure. Our extensive territory will afford subsistence for a vast population; our large and lengthy rivers facilitate the intercourse between the Agricultural and Commercial portions of our citizens; and the almost innumerable sites suitable for the application of water power to machinery, combined with other favorable circumstances, hold out great inducements for the investment of capital by the manufacturer.

The prosperity of this rising State, its harmony at home and its character and reputation abroad, should interest our warmest feelings. And while we discharge our duty to our country with fidelity, we have reason to be grateful that we form a portion of a country in which the soundest principles of Government have taken deep and permanent root; that those principles have recently been recognized here and engrafted into our Constitution, and still more recently re-examined by some of the elder members of our Union, and again stamped with their approbation. They are the principles which