Litchfield enquirer., 1831-05-12
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
Gentlemen ef tRe Senate,
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 Called ny the free sulFrages of the electors of my native State. to discharge the arduOus and responsible duties Of the Executive De- partnIent, acknowledge with gratitude the honor conferred. %.p-
 When look hack and view the character, the high intellectual and moral worth of those who have preceded me tn the elevated sta ton, should shrink from the labor and res. pOnsibility, had not, in many instances while discharging public trusts in subordinate offices, been sustained by an induIgent community.
 confidently hope for continuance of that indulgence, and for the support of patriotic and enlightened Legislature. ..... ....
 can only prOffer an ardent devotion to the civil, moral, and religious institutions of OWr common country, with an assurance that will cheerfully cooperate with you tn the at- tempt to improve, continue, and perpetuate them.
 May that Omnipotent arm, which sustain ed our fathers while establishing these invalu- able privileges, support us, aud continue these blessings unimPairrd to the latest poster,ty.
 Our political institutions were framed by ssges, whose minds had been disciplined in the school of trial and afliction. With the experience of past xgrs spread before them, and knowledge of the many abortive at. tempts which had been made to establish cleo. tive and free governments; with pOpula. ton enlightened and moral, they succeeded in founding Representative Republican, di- viding the departments-in limiting power-- in forming cheeks and balances. which effec- tually prevent the machinatiOns of unprinci- pied aspirants from seriously disturbing the movements of government-in providing for the wants, and securing the personal liberty of individuals. and in bringing speedy justice to the door of every citizen.
 The system is complicated, yet simple. To subserve every interest, the country is divid- ed into Towns, Counties, and States, all cloth. ed with sufficient power to continue healthy action in the hOdy polite, and to provide for the many minor wants of the community.
 States are invested with sovereign power. for the purposes of internal government, and secured from the destructive effects of do- mestic broils, and the ambitious views of States, by the MniOn of all the States-a system of systems-a government, empowered to speak authOritatively to the world, as the common agent of the states and the people to collect and apply the national resources for national purposes to declare war and make peace to guarantee repub- lican form of government to each state to inhibit quarrels and wars between states to an alteration of the powers dele gated, in such manner as to adapt the C0nsti- tuition to the varying wants of the people, as society improves; and to accommodate it to inc changing interests of man, in his advance towards perfection.
 All these divisions, and sub divisions. are made to result in one great object-the hap. oiness of the oatiOnal family-and are kept constantly under its control. There never was, and never can be, any real danger from ealousies of state rights and consolidation. Both the general and state governments be. ong to the sovereign people, and it is their interest to preserve them. and check every ttempt at encroachment, from all sections, md parties. I: may be truly said-the gov rnment is the peoples.
 The Senate and House of Representative of the ofMassachuseits have resolved That heir Senators in the Congress of the United States instructed, and their Representatives be requested their exertions 10 procure the passage of law pr the perfect organization of the Militia of the everal staies."
 It has been further resolved by the same
 That the Federal Constitution; the Laws of the
 Treaties made under the authority ofthe United States re the supreme law of the land and that the Judges D every state are bound thereby, any thing in She or laws of any State, to the contrary
 "T That the Judicial power of the Unitcd States. xtends to all cases in Law and Equity, arising under ne OOnsttutOns tne Laws o tne Onited States, and Le Treaties made under their authority, and that no State rgh.flily enioin upon it's Executive Off. ers to dsregard resist by force, any process or mandate which may be served upon it, in such cases due form of Law by authority of the Courts of the
 That it is the duty of the President of the United States to take care, that the Constitution the Laws of he United States, and the Treaties made unde. their faithful fly executed any thing ia the Laws or Ac's of any Saie to the con. rary notwithstanding"
 It has heen resolved by the General Assembly f,ha State of Vermont {" That they do concur with the Legislature of the State ot Georgia, in the proposal o amend the Constitution, 90 as tO provide uniform node of eecting the President, and Vice.President, without the intervention of electors; and that t,e
 sction of President and Vice President, should in no ,ase whatever, be submitted to the decision of the House Ot Representatives of the United States ;" and # the State of Loaisiania tn the proposal amend he Constitution of the United Siaiea 90 as to extend he terms Of office of President and Vice. President 10 ix years, and to render the President ineligible after he first election" '
 The. State of Ohio. upon Resolutions of the State ( Missouri and Georgia relating io the Constitution l power of Congress to Appropriate money aid the Society, have resolved, That t is pre-. r the appropriation of monies by the General Gov rDmenl iO aid of the Colonization Society, be or be lot constitutional"
 It has Likewise been resolved by the General As embiy Of the State of Alabama, That their con6- | ence in the fitness of Andrew Jackson, for the office # President of the United States, increased, and ireng,hensd by the republican, principles he has in reduced into his adMinislrat0n-by the measures he las by the just and elevated views which he has from time Co time prcsented. ofthe true
 That in their opinion the beet interests of the Un oT require his reelect0n and they therefore recom nend him to the other States of the Unon, for the e ice 0a Pre:deat after hs pressat time shali expire"
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