The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-09-08
TEN CENTS PER- WEEK.
NUMBER 126.

general operationof the law, and that excep-
| ton should be founded on some good and Suf-
fcient and controlling reason.
| To maintain the public faith and credit of
the State by the prompt payment of the inter-
est upon the public debt, and to lessen the
debt as speedily as may be consistent with
our financial resources, is comprised within the
list of executive duties. tits source of graft
fication and pride that the constitution of our
State has dedicated an adequate fund for that
purpose, which can in no event be diverted to
any other, and, if wisely managed, the time
can never arise when we will be unprepared
to meet every public engagement.
Inconnection with this subject is the dedica-
ton by the same instrument, of fund to the
cause of popular education. To preserve this
fund sacred and irviolate is not less duty en-
Ijoined by law than by the dictates Of enlight-
ened patriotism. In preamble to one of the
earliest acts of our Legislature, it is declared
that experience has shown that the best means
i of preventing tyranny would be to illuminate.
las far as possible, the minds of the people at
large that they may be able to know ambition
underal its shapes, and be prompt to defeat its
purposes, and that to promote the public hap
pineSs, it is expedient that those persons whom
nature hath endowed with genius and virtue
should be rendered by liberal education worthy
to receive, and able to guard, the sacred de-
posit of the rights and iberalties of their fell
low. citizens; and that, to aid and accelerate
this most desirable purpose, must be one Of
the first duties of every wise government
IConcurring fully in these wise sentiments of
our fathers, congratulate my fellow citizens
at large upon the progress which our common
school system has already made, and upon the
renewed and increasing interest which is al
most everywhere manifested in its favor as
recently shown by the overwhelming vote in
favor of additional taxat on to extend and en-
large its benefits.
The currency of the State is too Intimately
associated with the public prosperity to be
omitted on this occasion. A sound, safe, and
at all times convertible medium of exchange,
can alone secure to labor its just reward and
mitigate the disastrous effects of those CONNER
cial revulsions which seem to be the almost
necessary consequence of unrestrained paper
issues. As far as Executive influence can pro-
perly extend, | will endeavor to preserve our
currency in its present sound condition. 1t is
too often the case in times of great public
prosperity that banks are tempted to extend
their issues beyond the bounds of prudent
discretion, and when a reaction ensues sud-
den curtailment is seriously and injuriously
felt by the whole community. 1t is not less
the part of prudence and wisdom in our banks
than it would be conducive to the public good
equally to avoid the undue expansion of the
currency on the one hand and the sudden and
unnecessary curtailment oft on the other
| In her Federal relations, Kentucky has nev-
er ceased to look to the Union of the States
as the best and only security for their peace
and happiness. She requires all her officers
to take an oath to support the Constitution of
Al. IL IL. Al. l.
tain guaranty of liberty is ia faithful and honest
support of that sacred instrument in all its imi-
tations as well as its grant of powers. While
she cautiously refrains from any invasion Of
the rights of others, she will be steadfast and
firm in the maintenance of her own. She
cherishes towards all the States the highest
fraternal regard, not merely on account of a
common brotherhood of union, but from the
additional bonds of common interest. In
those dangerous conflicts of opinion, where
parties have been arrayed by sectional line,
she has always acted in spirit of Cancellation
and calm forbearance. We occupy the same
great valley in common with States differing
from US as to domestic institutions sanctioned
and protected by organic law-separated only
| by that beautiful stream which bears upon its
bosom the commerce of all; and as its waters
from each side unite and mingle to swell its
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ought to unite and mingle in common devo-
ton to our whole country, and to the perpe-
tuity of that bond of union which makes us
one people, and upon the continuance Of which
depends all the blessings of liberty. | cannot
however but deeply lament and deplore that
wild and reckless spirit of fanaticism which is
madly insisting upon common government
for all the States assuming an attitude of hos
tility to the property of a part. No man can
fail to see the dreadful consequences to which
this must lead if blindly persisted in. The
people of Kentucky, without distinction of
| party, and loyal and true to the Union, be-
lieving that anarchy and despotism would be
the inevitable consequences of dissolution,
its preservation is with them "a primary OBJ
Iiect of patriotic desire" May God, in his in
finite mercy and goodness, avert every antici-
pated evil and keep US forever united and
happy people With a firm and devout reliance
upon HIS divine protection, am ready to take
the oath of Office.