The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-01-13

GOfERNOR OF sOH1O,j \
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+ COMMENCING JANUARY q, 1854
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In compliance with the provision .ef. our
Constitution, which requires the Governor to
s:eomnsunioats to the Gen es Assembly the
| condition Of the State, and recomnlend such
dress yon. =. - ~ ~ I
The condition of my health Tor the past few
weeks, and my, present iDdisposition, will ac-
| count for the hrevity of the comm unication.
Your we'll known character for inte ligence
and experience as legislators makes It neces-
sarJ only that you be put insPossession of the
true condition Of the affairs of the State, to
enable you to ndopt such legislation as the
welfare of our common constituents may re
quire. = - ..as
The past year has been one of severe labor
TO all Concerned in the administration of the
Government and take pleasure in bearing
testimony to the faithful and .vigilant manner
/ 10 which the a uditor of State, Treasurer of
State, Secretary OF State, Comptroller of the
Treasury, Superintendent of the State House,
Superintendent of Public Printing and Libra
rian, have seVerally performed their respective
duties. I,r :gret that lean not include the
1 Attorney General and the former Commission-
Fer of Common Schools in .his commendation.
The School Commissi ,ntr, fortunately for the
State, resigned his office on the 11th day Of
4 November last. and the place is now filed by
highly. Competent and worthy man. s "a =
The duties of the Executive are so arduous
as TO command every moment of his time, To
demonstrate this, it is suficienttore refer you to
/ the acts of Private Secretary Hoffman, here
with, giving somewhat defailed statements of
the labors of the Office. In view of the in
or ased labort thrown upon this department,
also upon the departments of the Auditor and
! Treasurer of State, consequt mt upon the war,
added to the fact that the expenses of living
in. this CITY have greatly increased within the
past two years. recommend an increase of
the salaries of these officers. This increase |
should not be less than City per cent. and to
secure the benefitsof such increase to the in
coming officers, imflediaies action, during the
first week of your session, is necessary, as the
Constitution forbids the increase of salaries of
4any Of the State officers during the term for 1
! which they are elected am aware that the |
Ispeople. of Ohio have never favored high sala-
ries to their public officers but I also well
know, that they will cheerfully sustain US in /
4tup sacu Iutc OF cOHs pehSdtlOn as Will. ena-
bic those IN moderate pecuniary circumstances
to accept positions of high trust and conf I
dence- also renew my Recommendation : of |
last year. for a proper increase of the salary I
of the Superintendent of Public Printing
The duties cf this Office are highly important /
to the State.sau have materially increase
within the past year. The present rate of !
compensation is entirely Inadequate to the du-
ties. -, sssszsss = I |
invite your special attention to the Audi.
tors views the subject of aboIishing the
Office of Comptrollere Of the Treasury, and T
urge That your finance committees thoroughly /
investigate the matter. So far as am able
to discover, I can see practical good result
from mainteining this Office.
Dhring the early part of the past year. an +
Unusual degree of excitement, disorder and I
violence prevailed ip many parts of the State
to such al extentsdid this state OF lavlessness
exist, as to make it nccessary to send an arm
ed force toseveral points in the State. to main
tain the peace. The points of greatest alarm
and apprehension were in the Counties OF
Holmes and Montgomery. To great extent,
the cause of this.urhappy condition of affairsd
may be attributed to political excitement and f
party strife. I am most happy to announce, L
however, that as the day for the election ap-
preached, the passions and prejudices of the +
people became .aiiaycd; andereason and judg-
ment, thus left free to act, quiet and order
thrpughcut the State was the happy conse
on nee: weehave seldom, if ever, had a more +
quiet and orderly election Copies of thesey-
eral orders, and other corresponpence relating
to this Important matter, viii be found among
the documents herewith, No. s13. =. 80
1t will be seen that the main Of principal F.
cause of the difficulty referred to, grew out of
the effort ON the part Of the officers and agents
ofsthe National Governments, to enforce upon
our citizens the military orders of the Presi-
dent of the United States orders deemed !.
necessary by him TO crush ont and put down
the rebelliop. It was claimed, or pretended ,
to be claimed, by those who resisted orscoun- :
selcd resistance to these or .crs that they were
uncunstitn sSal and void. Happily for us as
a nation al speople, we had enjoyed so many
years of peace, thai the. questions arising, !
touching the powers of the President when :
the nation is IN war, had been. but little dis
cussed by the present generation of people, !
and therefore were not thoroughly understood S:
by them. The Constitution simply declared h
that ''the President shall be commander in
chief Of the army and navy of the United
States What commander-in-chief of the
army and navy of a nation might do or might :
pot e,=when that nation was az war to main : !
'aiuits very existence, the fraraers of our Com
wise ~ omitted TO att s,npt TO define
say wisely .sfor il is not in the province of :
my one nation on earth to define the authori-s
y of the, e,cnmmander-iH-chief of its arinv and L.
lavy this is the combined work of all the :.
,iyiiized nations; wc must therefore study =
he laws of nations 70 lind out the limit and g
'xtent of This oficer's authority. Thus view y
ng this question, and believing. af Tdid, that o
he several military orders issued by the Pres a.
dent, or under his authority, which in any s.
Fay affected our State sorl It's citizens, were te
leariy within his power and direction, and te
Tere highly necessary and proper to maintain p
rssood government, I most cheerfully gave q
o tie duly constituted authorities of the MAJ 81
ional Government, assigned to duty within. ia
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