Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-11-01
Quocumque me Fortuna ferat, ibo hospes.n
GOV. HOLBROOK,S MESSAGE.
Gentlemen Of the Senate.
and House of Representatives

and House Of Representatives:
1t was great disappointment to me to
be disabled by sickness from entering up
on my official duties at the opening of the
session of the Legislature Rising so re-
Gently from an attack of illness, without
the opportunity or physical strength to
investigate to any considerable extent the
public requirements of the State, can
not make this communication so practical
in detail, or complete in statement, as
might perhaps under other circumstances
have been realized The deficiency, how
ever, is of little consequence, inasmuch as
Vermorters are proverbial for the good
management of their public affairs and a
quick sense of the proprieties of things in
all public transactions.
The returning autumnal season has
again brought together the General AS
sembly to consult for the public welfare,
and enact laws to promote the same.
Looking abroad over the State, we observe
that the bounties of Providence have been
most generously dispensed, and we are
surrounded with the evidences of plenty
in mart, in FIELD, flock and herd that tile
people have prospered in their undertak-
ings of industry that we have been exempt
from pestilence or the ravagcs of wasting
sickness, and that the domestic security
of society has been undisturbed, For
these and other blessings. our public ac-
acknowledgements are eminently due, and
and should be gratefully expressed, to the
great Lawgiver of the Universe,
The inhabitants of Vermont have
doubtless preserved as much of our early
American character, and of the simplicity
and purity of free institutions as those Of
any State. They are nowhere excelled
for the blessings of just and equal laws,
by general intelligence we'll administered,
and for a remarkably equal distribution
of property, accompanied by the frugality
and thrift which ensures comfortable
homes and substantial independence to a
large proportion of the population. Our
somewhat stubborn, but strong and reten-
tive soil, our bracing climate, and the
necessities which nature here imposes for
industrious, persistent labor, combine to
train a people capable of much physical
endurance, and of heroic and manly deeds
and the influences of climate, of mountain
scenery, and the aspects ofphysical nature
generally, stimulate the imagination. refine
the sensibilities and exalt the mind
:" Freedom and Unity" is their motto, and
they drink in the spirit of liberty with
the air they breathe
From statement by the Treasurer
published in the report Of the auditor ot
accounts, | gather the state finances or
the 4th of September l96l:-
! RESOURCES.
Balance in treasury and due
from banks, $36,5l7,3C
Due on taxes voted g.Eg
before 1860, $2,458.87
Due on tax of go, 26,42l, ,25-28,S80, Il
:" 4" payable Oct Is, '6l, 90,645,97
Balance due from H M Bates, 49,43l.74
$204,475, Is
LIABILITIES.
Due banks for contributions
to safety fund, $l3,l25,0(
Balance due towns for U. S.
surplus money, 5,l63,O4
Loan of 1867, due Nov l '62, l00,00O,O(
+" 1859 due Nov 2l 1864, 100000
1860 July l, 1862, 100000
1860 July l, 1861, 100000
$2oS, ,2S8,O4
The Treasurer states that it will be nee
essary to provide means for the paymen
of the loan of 1857, of l00,000,00, at tn
present session of the Legislature
In his recent valcdictory address m,
predecessor states that up to and including
the 4th of October, 1861, the amount 0
warrants drawn by him upon the treasur
er is f laA $5l2,362,5!
The Treasurer informs me that
since the 4th of October last "h lfA