Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-25
Message of Governor Yates.

| Hon. Richard Yates was inaugurated Governor
of1llinois on the 18th. His inaugural address is
plain and out spoken upon National affairs He
thus spoke Of the navigation of the Mississippi,
Compromise and kindred topics
| 'Can it be for q moment supposed that the
people of the valley of the Mississippi will ever
consent that the great river shall flow for hun
dreds of miles through foreign Jurisdiction, and
they be compelled, if not to fight their way in the
face of the forts frowning upon its banks, to sub
nit to the imposition and annoyance of arbitrary
taxes and exhorbitant duties to be levied upon
their commerce? Ibelieye that before that day
shall come, either shore of the Father of Waters
will be continuous sepuchre of the slain and
with all its cities in ruins, and the cultivated
fields upon its sloping sides laid waste, it shall
roll its foaming tide in solitary grandeur, as at
the dawn Of creation. | know speak for Illinois,
and believe for the Northwest, when declare
them unit in the pnalterable determination of
her millions, occupying the great basin drained
by the Mississippi, to permit no portion of that
stream to be controlled by foreign jurisdiction,
''As to compromise, it means that we must out
rage the sentiment of the civilized world by con-
ceding that slavery is q blessing; that we must
love and praise it; that it may go into Free Terri
tories, under the protection of the Constitution
if these are the grounds upon which the difficult
ties are to be settled then they never will be set
tied, Plainness and truth require us to say that
the only pacifcation in which the people of this
State could accede would upon which Mr.. Lincoln
was elected-that the Constitution must be
obeyed, as it is; all its provisions enforced, ac-
cording to fair and honest Interpretation of its
meaning and that slavery is a local and State
institution, and nothing else
ut is time we had better understanding with
our Southern brethren. If there are aggressions
by the Northern States let them be shown, and
we pledge the faithful endeavors of the people of
this State to redress past wrongs and prevent
their repetition in the future. But such griev-
ances should be pointed out and proved before
we can redress them 1t also must be acknowl-
edged, that such complaints come with bad
grace from those States where it is notorious that
citizens of the free states are almost daily exposed
to insult imprisonment, and often death, from
the violence of irresponsible individuals. That
clause of our constitution granting "to the cit
liens of each State all the privileges and mmu-
mites of citizens of the several States" is just
as sacred and binding is the clause for the rem
dition of fugitive slaves, and the same obiga-
tions rest upon Congress to enforce the one as the
other American citizenship affords to him who
possesses the boon, efficient protection in every
civilized foreign nationin the world and even
adopted citizen on the most distant sea- as is the
case Of Martin Kosta, is the talisman of protec-
ton, and Austrian myrmidons shrink back in ter
ror before the futter of eyergolorious stars and
stripes And in these States shall the life of man
be safe who entertains the opinions of Washing
ton and Jefferson on the subject of slavery %