Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-01-10
MESSAGE OF GOV. sEYMouR, OF NEW YORK

year lieutenant Governor JONES' on assuming his duties
as President, made brief address, after which be au-
nounced his appointments Of subordinate officers Com
mteea were then appointed to notify the Governor and
the Assembly that tho Senate ready to proceed TO
business, and the Senate soon alterward adjourned
In the Assemb every member being present. after the
usual preliminary business, visa vote for Speaker
was taken, which resulted 10 tie -63 for Mr. GILBERT
DEAN lDemocraD and 60 for Mr.. HENRY SHERWOOD
(Repubican) )the two candidates. declining to vote
second vote resulted in similar manner and the Assem-
bly, then adjourned Ae afso@ a a
Yesterday FIVE more votes were taken with the same
resut-sxty-thre votes for each Of the candidates
Governor SEYMOUR, however, without waiting
for the organisation of the Assembly, laid before
the Senate his inaugural message, of which we
have by telegraph the following interesting sum
mary:
dovernbr SEYMOUR, in speaking Of national affairs says
that not only is national life at stake but every per-
sona family and every sacred duty and interest is
involved The truths Of financial and military sua
ton must not be kept back There must be no attempt
to put down the free expression of public opinion
Afghed at the ruin they have wrought The authors
our caames in the North and South insist that this war
was caused by unavoidable contest about slavery. This
has been the subject not the of the controversy
We ere 10 lock for the Of the in the pre- sang
disregard d the obligations Of the Laws and the Consttu-
ton in the dsespec for constituted authority and above
ALL in the ocs preudices which have grown up the two
portions Of the Atlantic States the two extremes of our
country.
There i no honest statement of difficulties which
doas not teach that people must reform themselves
we'll the conduct of the Government and the policy Of
our rulers is not too late to country, if
will enter upon the duty in the right spirit and in the
right way
Wherst ID the right Of our Government to decide upon
measures and policy, it is duty to obey and give
ready support to their decisions This is vital maxim of
liberty This war should have been avered but its food
gates opened and the Administration could not grasp
its dimensions control it's sweep The Government
borne away with the current and struggled as best it
could with the resistless tide Few seemed able to COM
prehend the military or financial problem
We are not bent on harsh judgment upon the errors
in the eonduct of their policy, but while to
cede all these for mistakes not to adopt
errors nor sanction violations of principles. The
which extenuate their faults in judgment must make
the vgilaut to guard against their influences.
The Governor urges economy and integrity in the ad-
mnisraton of affairs these vital in periods Of war
He also says that meddlng ard nrgues have thwarted
and parayzed the ygOr Of soldiers and the skill Of
their Generals within the influence Of the national capital
while armies gained victories in the field remote there
from.
The Governor says the National Constitution must be
held nvoate and holds that the rights of the States must
berespected not the lees sacred consolidated Gov
ernment would destroy the essential home rights and ber
ties of the people.
On The subject of arbitrary arrests Gov Seymour say
The suppression of journals and the imprisonment of per-
glarDgy partisan. Conscious Of these gross
ok hao koou
of law and suppress inquiry into their conduct This at
ten p will fail Unconstitutional acts will not be shielded
by unconstitutional laws shall not inquire what rights
States n rebellion have forfeited but deny that rebellion
suspend single right Of the citizens of loyal State
denounce the doctrine that civil 10 the South takes
away from the loyal North the benefits Of particle of
civil liberty high crime to abduct citizens of this
State II s made my duty by the Constitution that
the laws enforced and shall investigate every alleged
violation of statutes, and that the offenders
brought justice Sher and district attorneys are ad
monished that it is their duty to take that person
within their respective counties imprisoned carried
by force beyond their limits without due process Of legal
authority.
The Governor at length condemns the exercise of
power under martial law destructive of the rights of
States and Of legislation and of the judicial departments of
the General Government. He declares the Presidents
emancipation pTocidmaHoh imponuc, unyusr, and un-
constitutional and calculated to create many barriers 10
the restoration of the Union and that it will be mscon-
stued by the world abandonment Of hope restore
the Uniona reEult to which New York was unateraby
opposed, and which will be eHectually ressted.
The Unon says will be restored to the Free and Slave
States by the and Western States which exempt
from the violent passions which control at the extremes
Those Of the Central Slave States which rejected The ord
nancs Of secession, and which were driven of by con-
tmptuous Incorporating policy must be brought back
The restoration Of the whole Union win only be the work
of time with such exeriicn be put FORTH without
needssy icing the life and treasure Of the North n
a bloody and calamitous contest.
We must not out the lives Of our soldiers nor ex
haus the earnings Of labor by for uncertain ends or
to carry out vague theories of exterminatonhis means
not only destruction Of lives and Of property South but
aso waste Of blood aud treasure in the North The ex
ecution Of armed power must be accompanied By firm
and ccncatory policy to restore Union with the
least possible njury to both sections.
The Governor concludes follows cat this moment the
fortunes Of country Influenced by the results Of
battles Our armies in the field must be supported All
the constitutional demands Of our General Government
must be promptly responded to- Under circum
division of the Union be conceded. We will put
forth every exertion Of power we will use every policy
concistion win hold out every inducement to the
people Of the South to return 10 their allegiance consistently
with honor We will guarantee them every right and
every consideration demanded by the Constitution alone
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