The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-07

| Message OF the Governor OF Indiana.
The Legislature of Indiana having assem-
bled on the 3Oth uliimo, and appointed a com
mittee To wait on the Governor of the State,
and notify him of their organization, that officer,
on the following day, delivered in person his
annual message In this document Governor
WRIGHT represents the financial affairs OF the
State to be in very hattering condition. He
says:
"The financial ability of the State may be
| in what have accomplished in the last nine
years commencing with the suspension of our in
| ternal improvement system In that period, with
| no other resource but taxation we liquidated, Of
our domestic debt, in principal and interest, the
sum of 81, 500, l56, and have paid of interest
foreign debt including the January interest 1851,
the sum of S739269; making total of 1906, 425,
or over $36O,O00 per year, in addition to the ordi
nary expenses of the State, equivalent to half
our present State Indebtedness.
"By the year 1852, with the improvements pro-
| posed in our revenue system, the saving effected
by biennial sessions of the Legislature, and the
| venue to be derived from the Madison and Indi
| annapolis railroad it is estimated that shall be
| able within that year to appropriate the sum Of
l0O0 900 to the payment of the principal of the for
egn debt table has been prepared with great care,
and is appended to this message, assuming the reve
nue. of 1853 to be 0O0 that the annual increase Of
the revenue will be three per cent, that the of
| 100000 may be appropriated the first year for
| the payment of principal; and that this sum may
be increased every year thereafter by the three per
centum of increase, and the amount saved in the
| interest account. Under such estimate--and /
beve it entirely practicable, the public debt will
be hquidated in seventeen years from the fret pay
| ment."
The Governor disapproves of municipal cor
porations subscribing to stock in the variou,
railroad and other public Improvements which
| are at present in the course of construction or
| projected in the State and thinks they should
be carried on entirely by private enterprise
The appropriation of revenues of cities and
counties to such purposes" he says, . is
| wholly foreign TO the objects for which munich
pal corporations are organized, and for which
the power Of taxation is granted to them and
| will lead to local embarrassments and Difficult
ties similar to those in which the State became
| involved few years ago"
| The Governor discusses variety of topics Of
local interest to the Stale.
He warmly favors the scheme of African
| colonization, and makes that subject stepping
| stone to the consideration of the late measures
of adjustment adopted by the National Legisla-
ture. We make room for all of this, the con-
GLIDING portion Of his message inasmuch as it
is eminentiy just, patriotic, and eloquent:
"The subject of the colonization of the free blacks
| Is now beginning to receive that attention which
| its Importance demands. The circumstances
| which surround us pressing people to look
int IN no rivhf itrhf and
| spirit.
sour Southern brethren making rapid move
ments towards abridging the privileges of this class
even to Punishment. We in The North adopt
ing extraordinary means for removing them, by
prohibiting them from holding property, exclud-
ing them from the protection Of the laws, and de-
nying them any rights whatever.
| "While all this is going on, better nature,
| the common sympathes of all men, are beginning
| to ask these important questions: Vhat is TO be tie
end Of all this? Is there remedy? Is there no cure
| for this epip
.In the midst of all this excitement and confusion
the light breaks in upon US, which points conclu
| sivcly to colonization the only remedy. The in
FAINT colony of Liberia, recognised among the
nations of the earth, begins to attract the re-
| newed attention of all men who desire to see an
| entire separation of the two races In this great
struggle for the separation of the black man from
the white, let Indiana take her stand; put her agent
| into the field. Her citizens are ready-yea, they
are willing to contribute of their surplus something
for the removal Of this people from among US, and
to locate them in the native land of their orefathers
| Other States in this Union have their own settle
| ments in Liberia. Let Indiana have hers Let us
| sustain the movement made by Mr.. Bryan, of Ala
bama, for the employment of Government vessels;
| to found an empire in Africa. Let the National as
well as the State governments strike at this hour
for permanent and effectual remedy for the agi-
tations and excitement of the day this difficult
| question
| In pursuance of joint resolution of the last
| session OF the Legislature, block of marble, ma
tive OF the State, was procured and forwarded to
| Washington, to be placed in the monument now
in progress of erection there the memory of the
| Father of his Country
| 1.-The General Assembly did not authorize any
| sentiment to be placed the block. took the
| liberty of having inscribed the following:
| Indiana knows North no South nothing
| but the Union
al did 30, because believed, as / still believe,
| that the sentiment thus engraved OH enduring
marble was written also the hearts of our peo-
ple that 1t was the sentiment of the great mass of
my fellow citizens of Indiana the most agitating
| question of the day.
Complete unanimiy is rarely the incident of
human councils. In a confederacy like ours, diff.
fering as its members do, in soil climate and pro-
ductons; In habits, manners, and social relations;
In local and sectional interests it could not be ex
pected now, any more than at the birth of our
| Federal Constitution, that any compromise based
| upon mutual concessions, should be satisfactory
| to all
at is not practical question whether those mea
sures OF peace, recently framed by great and good
men, in the same spirit which actuated fathers
IN days gone by, are, in every respect such meet
| our unqualified approval. 1t has been well said,
that the lives of the best of spent in choosing
between evils and il is often bounden duty to
| dure temporary and incidental evil for perma-
| ncnt and inherent good. domestic institution,
forced upon our foreathers in colonial days, rather
| than voluntarily adopted by them is for the pre-
sent the necessary policy of Southern brethren
| Any sudden abandonment of that policy is mpos.
| sible Even its gradual REIMBURSEMENT is beset