Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-06-10
GOV. GOODwIN.s ADDRESS

The Legislature of New Hampshire is now
in session Its opening on the I'd. was
celebrated with something of the stir OF old
times The military and Gremen Of Concord
made display and there was a great turn
out of citizens Tho Governors address was
short and chiefly occupied with State affairs.
On the prohibtory liquor law he says
"The law providing against the sale Of spirit
uous liquors is in my judgment salutary, and
ought not to be disturbed Although II would
be impossible to carry fully into effect to the de-
gree desired by the friends Of temperance, this,
or any other similar enactment, it nevertheless
enables the phianthropic workers in this great
reform to WELD a much more powerful influence
than would be possible for them without its aid
believe it an agent for much good in the sup
preston Of tho great evil of intemperancc,'
He concludes his address with tho follow
ing pertinent remarks on national affairs
"As functionaries of the State, our primary and
proper business is to provide for the wants, TO
watch over the interests. and to develop the re-
sources of our own state. We arc to make and
promulgate laws for New Hampshire Our du-
ties and concerns chiefly domestic; but the
sentiment Of patriotism and our own interest, for
bid us to overlook entirely our national relations,
| and the licy of the federal government New
HAMPSHIRE is an integral part of the nation one
| of the original thirteen Of this now multiplied
confederacy of independent states; she adheres-
| she always has adhered, and she always will ad'
hereto the Union and tho constitution. Shs
does not stop TO calculate their value; for her,
| that problem is already and forever solved, that
question finally adjudieated She says they shaA
be prsssrvsd. believe speak the sentiment oi
the great mass Of her people whom say that New
| HAMPSHIRE knows no patriotism that is bounded
| by state lines sectional limits. All such pre-
| tended patriotism, whether appearing In New
England or in Carolina, she repudiates as at once
factious, and endangering the permanency OF oui
Republic. Whatever state, or section. or party
In this country, adopts the doctrine Of nullihea'
tion, or the scheme of dsunion. does, by tha
very act, acknowledge its inherent weakness, ant
the utter hopelessness of its political aims Blu
while New Hampshire checrfully recognizes th'
| rights of all other states, she will firmly main
tain her own. While she will never encroaci
upon the rights of the South, she will be the las
to surrender those Of the North. While she viii
never meddle with the domestic institutions o
Ter sister states, she is bound to prevent the OF
tension Of the curse Of slavery, as OF any othe
great political and social evil, territory nov
free, belonging to and under the control Of tn
United States; bound by the broadest an highes
patriotism, by her very attachment to the consti
tuition and tho Urion to prevent it; bound to pre-
vent II by all the power and influence she hs
under the cons itution, in controlling the leei'
lation Of Congress and the administration Of tn
federal government. New Hampshire will n
joice to see seotionsl administration giving va
before the triumph Of broad, pure, and trpl
patriotic national policy. She will rejoice to SC
the federal government restored once more TO II
acknowledged principles and ideas of the sutho
of the declaration Of Independence-the founde
of tn Union,a and the framcrs of the constitution