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1791 36 (1791)

handle is hein.ssl/ssma0308 and id is 1 raw text is: [ 36 3 0OF THER G ENER'A L C OUI R T OF_ THE,' C 'OMMG.1 .WE A L T H O F MASSACHUSETT-S: Together with the S P E E C H E S, &c. of His Excellency the Governour to the faid Court : Begun and held at'Bofloh, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednefday the Twenty-fixth Dayof May, Anno Domini, !79o ;, and from thence continued by Adjournment to Wednefday the Twenty- fixth Day of January following. T.H U R 9 ) A Y, Yanuary 7, i79i. At. twelve O'Clock, the Secretary delivered to the Houfe, a ,Meffage fromi Hi rExcellency the GovuRNOUR, requefting thei attendance ih the Senate.Chamber, whither they immediate.ly retired,--and Yihere his Excellency delivered the following Gentlenlen-etbke &atien, nd Metiefme4 of :b2 fdire L oto Reeppniaai . W HEN we contemplate the Prfeurt hapy .ftixatiohi of ou toun try, and V V compare it With the dlftrefring fcenes through which a kihd Providence has eolduced her, the Mind, if not oid bf patriotifmn, ituft ekpand with delight, and the haii if not-infefifibie to the impulfis of religion, Will overflbW with gratitude; The people Of' thi§.Commonweahh, *hilft they were invblved in accumulated diffiuti-cs, d-iablifhed th :Conftitutiorl of Governtment, by forte of Which we are now affembled :--And the 'citizens of the other States iit tht-Unfibn, io. le'fs attentive tonthe m hs of eftablifhib their political .hippinefs -md ieturity, purfued finilat meafures. The unanihhity whith ptevaileldon this Iidpoltant occafion, throughout all .the States, And, that extraoldinary exercife of learning and wifdom, which. has been acknoWledged by the wofldi'werd at that tirhe attributed by matny to the great. 'preffure dftout Patti txlarind ha'taidotis circitrhftances ; but fihce We have been favou d witlh-a'fate of prfe& p'eace and tranquility, A grat difplay of *ifdom and learning has be n exhibited, and - degree ofUtanimity as preaildd in the formiu und etalifhing the Conilittitioh ff the United'States o Anei: . I'do i t nxention-thefe great'Ov'ents foi yoir information --but to lead your minds'to the contemplation of thdfe.virtues aid qualitiesfi0tn whence they originated. We fee th hifory of natiobs, that an i raiidnd t'aiprtncipld hnultitude, rhay be frequently induced to follow anamtbitiousfleadr, to rapinGe, pund ahdicbnquelt; but when thefe objeas, which ferv I.nly t6 increqfe the mifcies f mankind ard atchieedC the molt fuccefiful fit dovt m6re Wreft-hed than theyi cie before. It feems to be referved as the peculiar dl~araate'of thd AnmerTa n, tO be moved ii their opereations, by a purer and a more. e ltenfive' degree of'inteligence .than has fallen , 1he -lot of thofe nations, whoiehiiraasw'6biin fro~n h~iftry. I And it isthrei great felicity tohave as the ieward f their i'rttie, the ability'ofcondufting theirperilious cootroverfies, :fo as to lay a, iobe foundatibn. for. their Oiwn future. gldr ; and for 'the, promotion of hurman lhappinefs.., The means -h h have been lefed to thvfc important purpofes, -are thi,% general diffeminadon of. the principles of

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