Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-01-13
GovERNoUR's MESSAGE.
Gentlemen Of the Senate a,.d

! UEWCtGHtCTk OF ttC kScvLQLEs UREA
orthe House Of Representatives
On re-assembling, as the Representatives
of free people, for the discharge of pub
lick duties, in the adoption of measures to
promote the future welfare the Republick,
we are naturally led to review of those
social and political blessings, in the enjoy
ment of which we have entered upon new
year, and to devout acknowledgements of
gratitude to the sovereign Ruler of the Uni
verse, for that benevolent providence, which
has sustained the nation in peace and hap
piness, through the year which has Just clos
ed. The recent full and lucid exposition of
our publick concerns, which is given in the
late official communication of the President
to Congress, affords satisfactory assurance
OF the increasing prosperity of our widely
extended country, and by reference to mea-
sures and events, is the best vindication of
the ability, wisdom, pure and devoted patri-
otism, with which the administration of its
affairs has been conducted. To no other peo-
pie on earth has SO large portion of personal
and public happiness been vouchsafed Ofno
nation does the history ofpast or present time
exhibit such picture Of true moral grandeur.
A great people, self governed by their own in
telligenca and moderation, appointing their
agents through the forms of voluntary
compact, directing their government by
opinion, sustaining or impeaching an admin
istratlon according to the dictates of senti-
ment or of interest," and by rotation in the
Offices of power and of trust, in the peace
| full exercise of the right of suffrage, produc-
ing changes of men in the highest stations,
which, in other countries, are rarely effect
! ed, but by desperate achievements of revolu-
ton and bloodshed. To the character of
our republican institutions we are indebted,
under Heaven, for whatever is thus envia-
BILE in our condition. The continuance of
our puhlick enjoyments must depend upon
/ the purity in which these institutions are
preserved, through the cultivated intelli-
gence of the citizens. In the progress of
the country in wealth and pc yer, and their
too inseparable accompaniment, individual
luxury and pride, patriotism will require
many sacrifices. Personal ambition must
be restrained to subsurviency to the gene
raj interest. Local objects must be surren-
dered to the common good. Above all, sec
tional jealousies, exclusive party considera-
tons, and the factious designs of restless
and turbulent men, must be repressed bv
the severest rebukes of patriotick spirit,
while national feeling, reverence for the
Constitution, and an inviolable adherance to
the principles of the confederacy, should be
lnculcated and insisted upon, at all times,
whenever and wherever there may be op-
portunity, and by all the motives and sane
tons which love of freedom and allegiance
to country can suggest.
These reflections, trust, will not be re-
garded as departure from course of re-
mark which is appropriate to an official COM
munication on occasions like the present
In the discharge of our obligations to the
Commonwealth, as member of the great
national family, we are bound to recognize
the relation and to cherish sentiments of at
tachment to the Union. The utmost fideli-
ty to the interests of the State is not incon-
sistent with the performance of every en-
joined duty to the nation. If indeed it be
! otherwise, then are the devices of the forms