Special Message
01/05/1809
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It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...
The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and fr...
On mature consideration and advice I approved of the proceeding of the governor.