Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-01-14
GOV. BEBB, OF OHIO.
The following is from the noble Inaugural adj
dress of the new Wing Governor of Ohio.

dress of the new Wing Governor of Ohio.
Our own State of Ohio, embracing very IA
vorod portion of this Grent Valley, stands out
before the e, es of all men, wonder for her pro-
gress in population, wealth aud power; for her
metropolis of near hundred thousand souls her
agricultural and mechanical productions; her
public works, her colleges sylums and schools;
and her population of two millions Of people, en-
Toying more Of the necessares and comforts of
| life, and enduring fewer of its prvations, mise
ries and wants tllsn any equal number of men in
any age of the world
| Compared with the great resources of the State,
present. and propective, even her large debt OF
| nineteen millions Of dollars is seen, at glance, |
10 be entirely under her CONTROL She owns eight |
hundred miles of navigabe canals, and is large
| ly interested in twelve hundred miles of Mad |
amized roads, besides her stocks in the chains Of
railroads which will ere long be completed from
Lake Erie to the Ohio river. The valuation re-
turned under her new revenue law, shows that
she has over four hundred millions of dollars
worth of taxable property.
And no man born within the limits of the State
of OHIO at the period Of the formation Of her
Constitution, who has marked with filia affection
and pride her every step from that hour TO the
present-no man who has ever been out upon
her lakes and rivers, up and down her beaut -
valleys, over her hills anG plains, in her mines,
workshops, and farm houses, meeting, every
where, a population whose spirit OF enterprise
and industry 'endureth all things and never fail
eth can avoid the realization that she has but
Just entered upon the threshold OF her future
greatness and prosperity, or fail to see that her
population have as yet cleared but here and there
a spot in her forests, occupied but few sites OF
her Immense water-power and but Just begun to
open her inexhaustibIe mines of IRON and fields
Of COAL Before the lapse Of twenty years, her
population will have increased from two to four
millions, and her taxable property from four hun
dred millions to a thousand millions Of dollars.
The cause of this unexamped prosperity is as
much without parallel in history as the effect
1t will be found in the natural resources of the
State, in the security of titles 10 land in the ear
ly protection and liberal policy of the General
Government. 1t will be found in the character
of her population, who, instead of emerging
through long ages from barbarism to civilization,
brought with them Freedom, Law, Christianity,
and the arts of civilized life. 1t will be found
in her free Constitution, comforting on her Exec
utve neither patronage, nor the ueto power; and
IN her legislation, which in the main, has been
liberal and WISE 1t will be found in the Ordi-
nance of 1857. That great charter of North
Western liberty was here before our fathers
1t had guaranteed 10 every emgrant Liberty OF
Conscienco-the right Of Trial by Jury-the
right of equal Representatlon-and the invioa-
bllity Of Private Property. 1t had declared tina,
"no law, impairing the validity of contracts pre-
yIously made without fraud, should ever have
any binding authority within the Territory
And it had proclaimed that "schools and the
means of education should forever be encour
aged for the plain reason, that religion, morali
ty and knowledge are necessary to good govern
men, and the happiness of mankind"
But, of all the provisions of that ordinance
the most Important 10 the cause of humanity, ant
the most benefcent in It's operation upon tn
morals, the rights, the happiness, and the pros
perlty of the millions who in all time to com
will inhablt these States, is that which makes tn
oil northwest of the river Ohio forever incapa
BILE OF sustaining slave.
With African servitudc, as the trainers of GU
G overnment found it within the limits of the 0
ri ginal slavehoding States, the people of OH
h ave no desire to meddle Not that we look up
ON the subject with cold Indifference, or ever ceas
to contemplate with earnest sclicitude as incl
and Americans, the course which our brethren
o those States, united with Ms in the same grea
ond OF Union, may feel it TO be their duty n
Il IS than their true interest, to pursue towar
Il lat oppressed and down-trodden race; nor, nuc
.ss, tnat we countenance the doctrine broache
some, that Human Slavery is not in itself q
vll but because we look upon it as al insitr
t on beyond our jurisdiction, subject to the cor
t. -ol alone of the Legislature and people of tn
everal States wherein it exists. There the cor
entlon which iramed our Federal Constitutio
Il ound it, and there they were reluctantly cou
elled to leave it. But surely it is matter Of re
,lcing TO u.s. no less than of honor TO our father
lat, in laying the foundations of the social sys
,m here, where Slavery had never existed, the
III great wisdom and humanity hedged it out, b
perpetual interdct and consecraled the Ian
t> Freedom.
In contemplating the history of that perio
nd dwelling upon the difficulties which best
o ur fathers, In compromising the conflicting II
arests OF the several sections of the Union, no
heerlng it is thus to witness the everything doc
Il ines OF the Declaration of American lndepeT
d ence bursting forth into practical operato
wherever it was possible to give them immedla
} Efficacy!
And how should a sense of deep humiliatio
, and guilt fall upon u.s. the descendants of sue
men, when, with the prosperous career OF Oh
> and of the other free States of the North We
: tern Territory before our eyes, and with all Il
, lights of this age of Christianity and Freedo
oeaming upon us, we compare or rather contra
he ordinance of az with the Constitution of 'Fe!
rs, the first perpe,ually prohibiting Slavery, al
lie last perpetually prohibiting Freedom lilo
ian we reflect upon the motives and means whiC
brought about the Annexation OF that PROVING
with such Constitution IA Constitution taste
1 ng slavery forever upon vast region wherein
. leghborng Republic had already broken eve
, yoke and let the oppressed go free.'
And how, with the Constitution of the Unite
States in our hands, proclaming that Congre
rlone shall have power to declare war, can v
'ehod President of the United States tramp
, hat sacred instrument in the dust deberatel
and without the advice OF Congress then in Sc
sion involve the country in foreign war of CO
guest, and yet not dare to give ulterance to o
Indignant condemnation of his unconstituton
cts! Where is the man who does not know al
( eel that this Mexican war is a Presidential wa
"A war which, before its commencement, Co
r ress would not have declared war begr
: 3ithout adequate cause, and without any gree
llstifable, and commensurate object compaub
with the interest and integrity OF the Union.
war conducted without wisdom of design
!. Washington, and relieved from utter disaster a
public odium only by the prudence, bravery, a
I brilliant exploits of Gen. Taylor and his gala
army of regulars and volunteers, who have
nphaatly upheld our national banner, and W
tor themselves mperishabe renown and the gr
Il ittlde Of their country
= Tax ON Tea and Coffee.
:. The Government sticks TO this tax; the P'
= or, ran presses it, and so does Secretary Walk