The Portland daily press., 1867-05-02
inaugural Address of Gov. Ensiish Of
Connecticut.

NEW YORK, May J..
The Connecticut State Legislature organized
To-day Gov. English, in his Message, says the
SITUATION OF public affairs is in every respect
important. He urges that, as citizens of q
common country, we should strive to extin-
guish the indicative resentments engendered
by the late civil war, which was waged to
maintain the supremacy of the federal Consti-
tuition and the integrity OF the national Union
He states that the great object of the war has
not yet been obtained; the Union is not yet re-
stored. Ten States are denied participation ia
the national Governmental by the action of Con
gress. Such measures, if persisted in, will
transform the republic into despotsm. He
deems the course of legislation pursued by
Congress wholly unwarranted and fatal-as
fatal TO the Union and the Constitution as the
doctrine Of secession. The legislation of tbs
39th Congress- to a large extent, was q series of
usurp&tiOns and infractions of the ConstitiI-
ton He argues that Congress had no more
power under the Constitution to establish mill
tary governments in the Southern States than
to institute order of nobility in England
and claims that Congress assumed that power
only for the purpose of more thoroughly ac-
complishing the subversion of State AUTHORITY
LII Congress can legslate for those States, it is
not difficult to foresee life interference in
other States, and the right of the States to
regulate their own internal affairs in their own
way will henceforth be subject to the caprice OF
Congress. He speaks of the Senate as arrogat-
ing the power to select and confirm, and as die
tatinS to the President in regard to his appoint
ments. 1t was in pursuance of q purpose to
absorb within its grasp the functions which
legitimately appertain to other branches of the
Government that it was proposed to take the
pardoning power from the President. where
the Constitution had placed it, and confer it by
an eI post Jacto proceeding on Congress. He
does not doubt the tacit submission of the
Southern people to the rules provided tor them,
but serious questions will arise from the pre-
cedent established by Congress. The Governor
states that the funded debt of the State has
been reduced the past year $571 600; total
amount at the present time, $685., 400. There
has been marked increase in the taxable
property of the State the past year. The list
in 1865 was $276, 100000; in 1886 it amounted to
S290,OO0,O00 The capital of the school fund in
September, 1866, was $2,O43,835 A considera-
BILE portion of the fund heretofore loaned in the
States of Ohio, New York and Massachusetts,
has been collected and reloaned in the State
Upon the war claims of the State outstanding
year ago, amounting to $75S05, 600, there has
been paid by the general Government $675O2O,
and probably $4,000 more will be allowed and
paid. There only eight banks remaining in
the State, exclusive of the national banks
whose aggregate capital on the LIST of April
last was 81 $40, 500, with circulation amount
ing only to Sill ,747., The whole number of
national banks is 50, with an aggregate capital
of 1874, $4,000. There are So savings banks in
the State, which show favorable report The
whole amount of deposits in these banks on the
LIST of January, 1867, was 1871, 80 39014, and the
market value of these assets, $33 150.8 $3.50.