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Appendix

Message of the Governor.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives In assuming the discharge of the responsible duties assigned us by the suffrages of our fellow citizens, our first emotions should be thankfulness and gratitude to the Beneficent Disposer of events for the continued peace and prosperity of our Common Country. As a constituent part of the American Republic, our own State partakes of the general happiness, and from year to year we have increasing cause to be satisfied with our condition as a people; and interest and patriotism both conspire to augment our attachment to the Union of the States, and to render us more devoted in the support of that Constitution of Government, which has hitherto surmounted every difficulty, and conducted this nation to a state of freedom and prosperity, unexampled in the history of the world. As many important concerns, directly interesting to the people of this State, are placed by the federal Constitution under the control of the General Government, we cannot be indifferent to its measures and proceedings; and the sentiments of the Legislature of a State deliberately expressed upon subjects of national concernment, are justly entitled to a respectful consideration in the national councils. With regard to those subjects upon which at present the people of the United States are divided in opinion to an extent calculated to excite a just alarm for the stability of our Union the Legislature of this State has heretofore declared its sentiments, and passed resolutions in relation