Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-06-15
HNSH'ER OF TIE SENATE
To the Speech Of has Esoelleney the CovERsOR.
My il plsgjf y5,v EzssLsu.y.

Aeyhf is!S ysy Bzssa.r.y.
THE, Senate beg leave 10 exprcf to you,
their fneere congratulations on yoor re election
70 the Chief MsgAraey Of the Commonwealth.
Not doubling the purity Of the motives, which
have ever guided your political eondu6t, fully
believing that your adniniih alton has beer UNI
formly intended TO promote the public veal,
and that our fellow ciizsnS have felt and ap-
preciated it. good efe9s, We heGtate not 20 add
our unequvOcal apr obation to that which is
10 clearly evinoed by the repetition Of thelr fuf
frages. ,.
Whatever may have been The wines of many
in regard 10 choice of the PRECEDENT Of the
United States, we tFoll that rhe good fehfe and
pauietifm OF thofe who-are disappointed IN the
Teiult, viii lead them-to ren der that relpItifui
obedience 20 Conaitutional authority, which is
iuAly due, and tfFr khe Fira MagiRrate Of our
nation ill, in administering he government, 70
adhere TO rs e6ential principles, as to fecule,
The eon6dence OF the people, Whole intereR re.
quircs that he fhould pohefs it.
We fully aceede, fr,to the petition, that afpe-
Eity and falIecoloring, ought not to Be indulg-
ed in the dacuEion o public mea(ures, and we
fncerely lament that the morals and lit-rtiss of
the people have been, and ltill are, endangered
BY ihel oeaSiouiaefs Of The preiIes in the United
States, and that 70 many Of our newspapers are
the vehicles of INTERPRETATION, aander and
fafehood.
Relying, under divine Providence, on well
organized, and well ,lifeiplined Militia, as the
great defence of our country againa enem es
from abroad, and faction at home, the Senate
will frequently and readily pay that legnltiye
1tenion 70 the fubjeas which its importance
demands.
The hiiiory of antient re- ublies, furniihes us
with 70 many testimonies of the fatality attend
ing, the ignorance Of the people, and through
this means the fnbverion Of free governments,
thit we-are nRihed in the belief, that Repub.
lie cannot prrferve Tvs purity nor can il long e1-
in without the general difFufon Of knowledge
among every ela(s Of citizens, and we readily
adopt the fsatiment that no fubjea Of legi1a-
zion can be more important. To effsa 70 de-
hrable an objea, an early and unweared attcn-
tionto the inREuaion Of our youth is indifpenia-
bly, neceaary, and it Is duty, which to neglect,
would be breach of the trua repoled mus by
our condiments.
We duly climate the wifdom Of ancient and
celebrated Legislators on this labjea, as well as
the laudable examples of our wife and virtuous
foretather.Aallhough much has been done by
former Legislators in eGablithing inaitutions for
the inaruaion Of youth in the principles Of re-
hgion, morality and ufeful icience, and in for
ming their tempers, and habits, yet much re-
mains fer their iucceiTors TO do.
We viii cheerfullY co operate with your Ex.
eellency, and the other branch Of the LegiAa.
luEe, in ameliorating fyaems, 10 honorable to
our country, 70 eaential 10 the fuppors of a
free government, and conducive to the haPpi-
neIs of fosiety,
fTLsSsnate d;d not pan this addrefs with
out eon6derable difcudion /; The objection was
.rahe6 70 TIA, paFsge which relste to the elec-
ton OF MIR. Jsferfon,. or a.plea that IL did not
express iuthcient degree OF confidence in his
admini9rationl the motion for amending il was
however haally lot ! yeas "A, nays as,1