The Arkansas banner., 1844-11-06
GOVERNORS MESSAGE,
0lt- ellfzenS 0f fIie Nc11fe

FeiLote eiiizeas of tke Senate
 and of ibe House of Representatives.:
 By the constitution of this State is male the duty oTthe Executive, ''from time to time, to give to the General Assembly infofmaiion of the Stale of the Government, and recon mend to their consideration such measures as he may deem expedient.2
 In discharging.a duty, thus imposed upon mo, l embrace this opportunity of congratu- lating you upon the favorable auspices under which you assemble. Within the short pe- riod of my administration, nothing has er- cured permanently to impare lhe prosperity of the people, or to check the growing inn porfance of the State, as member of the Union.
 All the elements of prosperity, connected with genial climate and fertile soil, are in a most healthy state, calculated to secure and advance the happiness and prosperity of all portions of the country.
 A people, thus favored, ought upon all proper occasions, remember the high obliga- lions they are under to Divine Providence for the benefits thus conferred, and devoutly hope for their continuance, as the destnies Of nations and of men are in his hands.
 ! or several years past, no portion of the Union has been exempt from a commercial and peeunary Arrangement, growing, no doubt, out oi spirit of speculation and ex- travagancc unparalleled in the history of the country. But from the character of our pe- culiar system of Government, based as 1t is upon the virtue and intelligence of the peo- pie, and their capacity for sell-government, and so framed as to allow all to engage in such pursuits as their inclination may direct, con nected with the enterprise and industry of the people, we may coniidentially anticipate that the time is not far distant, when by a proper administration of the government, pecunry endorsements will cease-commerc will assume its proper channel, and all the ele- ments of prosperity so abundant in this State will have their full effect upon the labor and industry of the country.
 The system of'ecouomy which pervates the whole country, growing out of the com merclal and monetary difficulties through which we have been, and are still passing. and which has visited all cassesof the commu- nity,willno doubt secure that general prosper ity so ardently desired. This IS an agricultural State; plnety-nine out of every hundred of our population are agriculturists and it is confidently believed, that one of the most desirable things to be accomplished is per manency in legislative action, which ought at all times to be kept in view by every de- partment of the Government. I cannot. therefore, too earnestly recommend such a course of legislation as will produce changes in the laws only where experience has shown them indispensable. Changing the laws too frequently mvariable produces hardshps and Arrangements, which otherwise would have been ayioded
 , By this cautious system of legislation, the cultlyators of the soil, who compose such a large majority of the people will be secured more nor certainly in their rights, without in- ringing upon the rights of others-and thus the prices of the products of the soil and the wages of labor will be more uniform and certain.
 A wild and extravagant system of legisla- ton Is more to be deprecated in free coun-