The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-02-04
Governors Message.


ment but suffice it to say, that the Gov
ernor recommends,
First, The re-districting of the State
into new Circuit Court Judicial Districts,
so as TO include, SomeWhere, the counties
of Gratiot, Mason, Monistee, Manitou and
several other unorganized counties, which
are now ,eitiou the pale Of any Court or
Judgeship. The governor talks as though
he more than half suspected, that some Of
the population Whereabouts, needed to
have "justice done them"
Second, He calls the attention Of the
Legislature to that part of the State Land
Commissioners report, in which he gives
his reasons for Withholding the Swamp
Lands from sale Under the existing
laws, these lands are required to be adyer-
tised, previous to sale, in every county in
the State where a newspaper Is published.
BY careful estimation, the Commissioners
found the sale Of said lands, would not
pay the erpcasc Of adecrtising, and conse-
quently withheld them; which the gov
crnor approves. Ne commend his Judge
ment, and the people will DO the same.
Third, Condemns the policy Of the State
undertaking the drainage Of these lands, by
employing engineers and laJorers, as inn
practble, and attended by extravaganza
and wat famess, and also with an
other kind of drainage in the direction Of
the state treasury; but recommends that
they be sold at a low price to those who
may become actual settlers, who will drain
them at their own expense from selfish and
ceonomic motives aed that the pr9es4s.as.
after paying the expenses Of the sale, b
sacrcdly devoted to educational purposes
He reminds the legislature, in this place
of the wants of the Agricultural College
IL say, put the Whole into the Primary
School Fund. If these lands were gre,
to the ubol stasc, let each child Of thi,
commonwealth receive an equal benefit
and not, by legislative diversion, foster an
agricultural aris.oeracy, at the expense OF
uniform, popular education.
Fourth, Mentions the fuquciol emJdr.
assmcnt and distress which has ovcrspread
the country, and which has affected every
department Of business, financial and com.
mercal, public and private, dCPletiag Il
emptiness the national treasury at Nash.
ington, and seriously affecting that por-
ton Of the revenue of this state, upon
which i. appended, principally, for II re-
courccs; leaving it thereby, in part, un-
provided for, because unlocked for-fnds
by looking among the archives Of the
state, that the Suite tur, previous to the
wear 1886, averaged, under dcm0cratic
engineering, at about three mills upon
each dollar of valuation; while for the
three past years, the assessment lEls not
been quite holfa mill; and Yet thinks
that the State had better meet the eXigcn'
cy by small loan, than return again to
former biH rates Of democratic taxation,
during these hard times; or attempt to
rcplcnish the treasury by forced sales OF
and for the streams of business 'eW run,
after little, and land rW sell, at good
rcmuncrativc prices.
Fifth, Invites the attention Of the leg
islature to The State Trcasurer's report,
which shows beyond the cayil Of any hon
est man, the annual dimiauation of the
public revenues, from the Jaiiing az Of
she sales Of LAID and at the same time
shows, thas he has, during his administra
ton. po@ IF sl47,03j,5i OF the State
indebtedness.
Sixth, Boldly and truthtfully assert
that the $4,000 appropriation made by
the Legislature for the relief of the citi-
zcns of Michigan, who had gone to settle
in Kansas, aud which the Slaycocratic
press has made such dolcful howl over,
has ncrer been erpc,ldcd, with the exccp-
ton of one thousand, dollars which was
forwarded to Juy seed 1rti, and which
was sacrcdly used for that purpose, and no
other.
On the whole, we like the tone of tho
message 1t is characterized by his usual
modosty and perypicuity. Instead of as
suming the braggadocio and dictatorial
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