Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-02-02
ANSWER OF THE SENATE.
70 THE C0YERN0RS SPEECH.


May It pleafe your E1cellency,
THE Senate Of MaGachuletts receive with
great fatisia6tion your Excellsncy's addref. to
both Houles Of the Legislature. We conlider
it as afording new proof, nor only of the VIII
dom, bnt OF the purity Of intention ny which
you are governed.
We have abundant caule Of gratitude for the
general health and uncommon PROPERTY enjoy.
cd Ly cur fellow citizens throughout the Com
monwealth We fhall cheeriully contribute
cur vigilant and faithful endeavours. to Preferve
their prefent advantages, and promote their
ldhing reputation and interef to check the
alarming growth Of vice and impiety to cher
i'll the nltitutions for moral intrusion, and
the education Of youth and to maintain the
principles Of juRice, and provide for its equal
adminifration in every part Of The Common.
wealth.
AS the happiness of the great body of the
people Of the United States. is in(eperably con-
neaed with the welfare ard profperity Of The
community, It needs only that they be correctly
Informed, 70 remove gioundicls ptejudices, and
10 extnguilh the fpirit of party and undue at
tachment TO any foreign country and 10 IN
duce confiGency and uniformity Of national
character.
The conduit Of the COVE nnent Of the Uni
ted States towarIs the nations OF Europe, has
been uniformly marked with re6titude an ! mod
Grafton And the wifdom of thoIe medlres Of
maritime defence, which the iniulce and zeal
oufy Of the contendine nations, have compelled
us 10 Ieior. tc, is verified ir their eff as, which
have rot only fulfilled TIE expectations Of the
mott flngoide, but mutt alto have created a
general confidence in the fyhem which has 5ecn
70 happily fuccelsfui'
We have equal CAME Of mutual f-lcitation
for the lecurity which the Federal Government
has hitherto afforded to our internal tranquil.
~ f; beGing which had the old confederation
continued, we could hardly have hoped for at
this eventful crilis.
And we have Gill confidence in the holy
oracles OF our religion, and therefore believe
that tree may be known by its fruit, 70 we
think that no honef man can pronounce that
form Of government 70 be bad, or that admin
iitration wicked or corrupt which under heaven,
has advanced our nation to degree Of prof,
perity, to which there is no parallel in the hiao
ry Of mankind.
We Learn, with great fItisfaaion, the prof
porous tate OF the finances of this Common.
wealth, and that our public debt may be foon
cancelled without impoling any mutual burdens
on our condiments. This defirable Gate 81
things is undoubtedly to be conlidered as one
Of the happy consequences of adopting the fed.
eral contribution without which our Rate
government would have been unable 10 farisfy
the inf claims Of their creditors, bur by relott
ing TO modes of taxation much more incohve
nlsat than any which the general government
have hitherto found neceHarg.
The ieveral matters of local concern which
yourExcellency has fuggeRed, lhall receive our
prompt and fetious attention. Impteaed, a
we are with full belief that the force of ex
ample, contributes in an eminent degree, 10 III,
efficacy Of the wilelt laws, we not only confdri
il orr duty 70 attempt to provide fuch addi
tiondl regulations as may be necelfarv to lecur,
our conRtuents in the enjoyment Of the fruit
| OF their labor, againlt every fpecies of injuaic
or opprelioD, but, by our perf1nal obedfenc
and relpe6f for the laws Of our country "a Al
lure our fellow citizsns to yield them I yoluu
t'ry ipHPort.