Washington telegraph., 1850-11-20
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

measures recommended for the consldera-
ton and action or the Legislature, we
heartily concur. They seem to be dc
tated by a candid desire for the general
welfare, and submitted with frankness
| which precludes the idea OF selfish
motive. The Banks, with their opera
tions, are first reviewed, and the greater
| portion Of the pecuniary embarrassments
| under which the State now labors, as
cribed, i'll no measured terms, to their
mismanagement. The Indebtedness of
the State is justly acknowledged, and her
tardiness of payment attributed. not 20
her unwilIingness, but her inability to
| pay The idea of reputation is spurned,
| as it should be, and the undeveloped re-
sources of the State relied upon to re-
plenish her exhausted Golfers and enable
her to discharge honorably her liabilities.
In view of this, geological survey is
earnestly recommended to be Immediately
carried into effect, by competent person
appointed for that purpose. whose faith
fuF and efficient investigation and exhibit
may reveal the hidden treasures Of the
land, and result in immense pecuniary
benefit.
The Penitentiary is noticed, and
building ON large scale, and better fitted
for keeping securely the convicts commit
ted to it, recommended.
The views of the message relative to
the acts distributing amongst the counties
the Internal Improvement and Seminary
funds raised from the donation Of land
to the State by the General Government,
for specific purposes. deserve our Acom-
mendation, are worthy of the station from
which they emanate. and will, we trust,
he concurred in, and acted on by the
Legislature. We agree with his Excel.
lency in the belief that time was never
more injuriously squandered by body of
law makers than that occupied i'll the
passage of these acts.
So long as the message adheres TO
delineation of State policy. and to matters
connected with the interests of the State,
with the exception of its denunciatory
mention of person, for some time
prominent, and honored member of his
party, we give it our approval. This
open denuncation sounds harshly in a
dignifed State paper, especially when it
is considered that the embeZzlements
with which he is here charged, were
more than suspected by many, even il the
zenith of his ill-gained prosperity.
This, however, would have been but a
slight hindrance to an entire epProhation,
had the message stopped here. For the
sake of the document; for the sake Of its
author, ard for the States sake, we re-
gret that it did not. Butno. "Well
enough could not be 'let alone" Ma
uional politics had to be lugged in. vol
ley Of blank cartridges discharged, for
Bunkum. over the slavery question, and
an attempt made to tarnish the laurels
Of distinguished hero, now resting from
his patriotic labors, in the grave.
After condemning the admission of
California, the message has the following
rare morsel of detraction:
"Yet, the Federal Executive, in the
absence of law and precedent, supported
by the northern abolitionists. has thought
proper to incite few adventnrers and
aliens, to go through the miserable farce
of holding Convention, and forming
Constitution, to the end that he might be
extricated from a labyrinth of conflicting
pledges disreputabIy made to secure the
Presidency, and that shareholders night
be for ever excluded from her limits
Torefute the foregoing charge, and to
vindicate the fame of the .onored dead,
we nave but to oppose groundless asser-
;tion by the following statement of facts.
i WheE Gen. Taylor was first charged
with Interfering in order to influence the
Creation of State Government: in Cali
fornia5 and the formation of free soil
Constitution. he explicitly denies having
ever in any manner interfered for that
purpose; and Butler King, the alledged
agent, in aipublished statement positive
ly denies having ever received from the
Executive any instructions so to interfere.
But additional testimony is now pro-
duced in letters to the Washington Re-
public, from Gen. Riley, Com. Jones,
and Judge Dimmick, which removes eve
ry shadow Of doubt upon this subject.
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