Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-12-14
AND PUBLrsHED.EvERY SATURDAY,
BY REED & HOSMER.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
Gentlemen Of Me Senate,

Gentlemen Of The Senate,
and Of the House Of Representative
In meeting together for the purpose o
diecharging the high and responsible duties
of the trust reposed In US by our constitu.
ents, we are naturally led, in the first place,
to the consideration Of those subjects which
are calcuhted to make pleasing impress
sion on our minds, and inspire us with CRATE
ful feelings to kind and benfcent Proyi-
dence to whom we are indebted for the nu-
merous blessings which we enjoy. With
but few exceptions the health OF the State
has been unusually good during the past
season; order, tranquility and peace have
pevaled within our borders; and the diff.
culties which, to some extent, threatened
the repose of our northern frontier, grow
have disappeared. A strict observance of
the laws, and high regard for their faith
ful execution, have eminently characterized
the great body of our citizens; and tho toll
and industry of the husbandman has been
rewarded with an abundant crop of all the
productions usual to our fertile soil and ge-
NAL climate.
The surplus produce Of the state, it is be-
iieved, will be much greater this year, than
any former season since the settlement OF
ine country; ana VIII yield, even IL IL should
De Hoid al the present reduced prices, an
aggtegate amount o, vaiue equai 70 that OF
any former year. rms VIII sustain our ag-
ricultural interest in its usual prosperous
and fourishing condition, upon which,
mainly depend all the other great and lead
ing interests OF the state. our climate, :,
SOIL ana geograph'cai position' des'gnated
us as an agricultural people, ana upon TINS
branch oil industry must we principally de-
pend for all our wealth. ana resources. IL
10 from soil OF unsurpassed ieftility and
great agricultural capabilities that we must,
sooner or later, draw the necessary means
OF paying our debts and sustaining the Gre
dit of the state 1t is true, that great
portion of our state is well adapted to the
business ofmanufacturing, and offers facli-
ties and inducements for this branch of in
dustry, which will not always be overlook
ed by enterprsing capitalists. The mex
haustible beds of coal and iron ore found in
many parts Of the state, the extensive wa
ter power furnished by our numerous
streams, and created by our various public
works, hold out strong inducements for the
investment of capital in this state, III man.
ufacturing operations. But it is not in the
infancy ofa country that we see manufac-
turing establishments springlng into exist
ence, and rivaling agriculture in the crea-
tion Of actual wealth--manufactures are al
ways of slow growth, and rarely arrive to
much importance, until the labor of coun-
try becomes greater than the demands Of
agriculture require. We must, therefore,
look to agriculture for the present, and for
some time to come, as the great leading in
terests OF the state from which our principal
wealth and resources must be derived, and
which especially entitled to the fostering
care ofthe Legislature.
Education, and moral and intellectual
improvement among our citizens, are stea.
dily and rapidly advancing under our liberal
system ofinstructlon. That general intel
!igence which is, and must ever continue
to be, the great bulwark of our republican
institutions, and is the result, in great de-
gree, Of our liberal system of education, and
the inquiring spirit Of the age is rapidly in
creasing throughout the whole country. 1t
is a duty which we owe to ourselves. as well
as to posterity, to adopt all the necessary
means, which prudence may suggest and
wisdom devise, to preserve and perpetuate
our free institutions. From the history of
thepart we may learn something of the fu-
ture; and it is a fact worthy to be remarked,
that no people hitherto have long been
able to preserve their freedom, when the
mass Of the community were uneducated
and un;nformed. The great and unprece-
dented success which has marked our
free institutions, and the wisdom and
prudence which has generally characterized
the administration of our public affairs are
mainly to be attributed to the force Of en-
lightened public opinion, emanating from an
intelligent and well educated community.
If we expect to avoid the fate of the repub-
lies in time past, and preserved our free in
stitutions from the inroads of despotism,
and the selfish ambition of the designing
few, we must foster and cherish the means
Of general instruction. An enlightened
system of education by which the rising
youth in each succeeding generation will be
prepared and qualified to act the part as
signed them by the theory and fundamen-
tai principles of our government, as they
take their position on the stage Of fhuman ac-
ton, is the strongest barrier that can be
presented against anti-republcan princi-
Piles. We may, with confidence, anticipate
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