Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-06-09

port, whether any, ana II any, what re-
auctions may be made in the salaries of
the State Officers.
Probate Laws.-Hon. Messrs. Denny
and Mills, Messrs. Sumner of B. M'Kay
of ?. and Sibley of Barre. were appoint
ed on the subject of the Probate Laws.
Petitions of d. Richards, &c. TO be
incorporated as the Calvinistic Society
in Worcester, were referred to the
committee on Parishes.
GOVERNORS SPEECH.
On Monday last, the newly elected Counsel
Tors appeared and were qualified; after
which His Exce!lency the Governor met
the two HOUSES IN the Representatives
chamber, and delivered the following
SPEECH.
Gentlemen the Senate, and
II Gtnttene9l of The House of Representatives..
| Called by the voice of my fellow citizens
to administer the government for the ensuing
year, should be anting in respect to them
as we'll as IN justice to my own feelings, if
did not express my grateful acknowledgements
for this distinguished mark of their favor and
I appreciation. 10 those who are conscious
that they have never sought the public favor
or the public suffrage by any other means
\ than by endeavourlng TO deserve them, such
4 proofs Of confidence are peculiarly accepta-
\ BILE.
congratulate you, Gentlemen, on this con-
vGntion Of the several branches of the Gov
eminent, organized according to the provisions
OF our excellent constitution. Our rath of
duty IS plain. The government must be adj
minlstered on those republican principles
which produced our glorious revolution, and
coniormably 10 those rules and precepts which
we have sworn TO maintain. The public good
wiil-form the great object Of our pursuit, over
which the influence Of partymust not be per-
mltted to prevail. t the same time sense
OF duty will obllge us to hold in just estina-
ton those patriotic citizens, who in seasons of
peril and difficulty maintain the honor and in
terest of their country.
The prosperous state of our affairs happily
requires no extraordinary interposition in re-
lation to the general laws. In peace and
tranquility, our fellow citizens are ENJOYING
the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and
In the pursuit OF their various occupations, are
acquiring, under the smiles of Providence, the
means of that individual ease and ndepen-
dence, whic form the aggregate ofthe wealth
and strength of the State. Agriculture, the
natural parent Of our resources, is pro sper-
Gus ;-labour, in its various objects and occu-
pations, meets lts reward improvements in
science and n the liberal and mechanic arts,
keep pace with the genius and enterprise of
the people. If taxes fall with heavier hand
on the citizens of this Commonwealth, than
on those Of some other States, are they not
amply remuneratsd in the more immediate
causes of these burthens' in the superiority
Of their civil, religious, social and military in
situations, which are so worthy an enlighten-
ed and opulent people in their schools,
their academies, their colleges, their societies
for the encouragement ofagIiculture, charity
and benevolenCe in the numerous provisions
for the relief of the widow and fatherless, and
of the poor of every description in the ex-
cellence of their roads and bridges, and other
facilities OF transportation and intercourse,
which enhance the value and shorten the la
bors of the husbandman, and of every de-
script!on Of citizens in their temples Of JUS
! tice, and above all, in the moral sense and
moral obligation derived from education,
which bind them together as band of broth
ers, recIprocating those acts of justice and al
lection which constitute the charm and seen
rity of social life, and in the unreserved free
dom of the press, which diffuses its rays OF in.
tellcctual light and information throughout
the great body of the people, and which is
justly considered the palladium of the public
liberty BY the common consent of enlisht-
ened statesmen it is admitted, that the cuiti-
walton OF this freedom of expression has had
an essential influence in meliorating the con-
diton of mankind. and that in modern times
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ment and SO long as those who WELD this
powerful lever over the public mind shall be
sensible ofthe high responsibility thev are I'M
der so long will it continue to be rightly APP
preciated and respected. If under temporary
excitements, produced by the spirit of party,
or by other causes, it may occasion ally tran
scend Its proper bounds, or descend from its
proper dignity, the political morals and man.
ners OF Virtuous and well educated people,
afford sure and adequate corrective.
Among our, public improvements, those
making, and contemplated to be made, in the
capitol of the State, which are calculated a.
like for individual and public convenience, as
we'll as for ornament, reflect honor on citizens,
vino voluntarily submit to the burthens nee
essary to their accomplishment, and appear
to be- worthy of patronage.
| Ing DOuy polltIC Dis well as the BODY nat
ural requires constant care and attention TO
preserve its physical and intellectual powers.
The history of human nature teaches US, that
it is less difficult TO acquire than to retain the
possession ofany earthly object. The people
of this country have before them, duty more
elevated and important than has ever been
required of any nation whatever.--They have
to sustain in the face of an anxious world, a
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and valor of their ancestors, and to hold forth
in practice the principles on which it is found
ed, as worthy the imitation of freemen. The
great body of the people, by whom and for
whom it was established, should guard it with
never-ceasing vigilance, bearing in mind the
important truth, that when they cease to be
their own guardians. they cease to be free.
The evidence has at length become con-
elusive, that it is altogether vain and fruitless,
to raise the standard of civil liberty on any
other basis, than that ola ,ciety bound TO-