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1793 39 (1793)

handle is hein.ssl/ssma0318 and id is 1 raw text is: [39 R E .R L V S OF THE GrE N E RAL C OURItT o F TH E C 0 M M 0 N W E A L T 1 OF Together with the S P E E C H E S, &c. of His Excellency the Governor to the faid CourE Begun and held at Bog/on, in the County of Sut'lk, on Wednefday, the Thirtieth Day of May, Anno Domini, 1792 ; and from thence continued by Adjourn. ment to Wednefday, the Thirtieth Day of 7anuary, following. T 11 U R S D A Y, .January 3t, Ar Twelve o'clock, this day, both Branches of the Legiflature being convened in the Reprefentatives'.Chamber, agreeably to afignncut, His Excellency the Gover- nor came in, and addrefflid them in the following SPEECH : Afr. Prfident, and Gentlemen of the Senate, Mr. Speakcr, and Gentlemen of the Houe of Rqpr nzttiv,', M Y duty requires in to point your attention to fuch object's as dt-mand 'he aid of the Lgillative M Authority ; but I feel the higheft fatisfaffion in having occafion to congratulate you on the continuance of the internal peace, as well as on the iricrcafil.l, profperity of our Republic. It muff. afford you a high degree of pleafure to find that you hAve nothing before you, but what is incident to a quiet and orderly fIate of Civil Government. A people in. the full poffeflion of the right to govern themfelves, according to their own difcretion, by the fixed rules of a Conftitution of Govern-. ment, efltablifled upon their voluntary conf~nt, and to feek their own happinefq as a community, without the exercife of arii authority over them, excepting What is derived from their own fuiirages, frequently given, cannot fail of infuring to themfelves political profperiy * unlefs they want wifioin to difeern, or virtue to improve their own privileges. When we contemplate the Governments of the feveral States, togcthcr whh tie Federal Conli- tution, by which they are all united for national purpofes, we obfurve an aftoiiffiing accordance of powers, raifed on the bals of Republican principles. The wheels, though of dilferent diameters, iirn in concert ; and exhibit to Mankind, the mollt fatisfa~aory proof, that Governments fianuded in the ideas of natural equality, can poffefs more energy, than defpotifni has ever given to thofe, which have been raifed by force or fraud, and fupporred by pretence of hereditary power. It is the part of a wife people in the day of their profperity, to recolle&t the principles wich produced their public felicity ; or as it is well exprefled in the declaraition of rights perfixed to the form of our Government, A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of the Confiitu- tion, and a conflant adherence to thofe of Piety, juftice, Moderation, Temperance, Induliry and Fru- gality, are abfolutely ncceflary to preferve the advantages of Liberty, and to maintain a free Gov- ernmelt. Amongft the means by which our Government has been raifed to its preferit height of profpc- rity, that of education has been the moft efficient : You will therefore encourage and filporr our Univcrfity and Academies ; but more watchfully, the Grammar and other Town -chools. rhue offer equal advantages to poor and rich ; and (hould the fupport of fuch inititutions be nigle .ed, that kind of Education which a free Governmeilt requires, to maintain its ferce, would very fun be forgotten. It the means'of Education, I do not conine my views to the bulinefs of Schools, but extend m.y ideas to all the inftitutions which have a tendency to aid' the progrefs of knowledge antd virtue, ill the mind of the rifing Generation and to eftablilh the public opinion in favotur of thofC mli Ily ?ur- fuits which render a people truly refpectable. In the Syftem of our Government, and founded in the prilncilCS of its Con1ftirution, are a num- ber of Laws calculated to infpire the Citivens with a reverance for Religion, and a refpt:cd for Virtuc. In this clafs are the laws againft Blafphemny and Profanity ; and ahlo thofe wvhich enjoin thie obfer- vation of Holy Time, and an attendance upon Public I)cvotion ; arid others mking provifion for the maintainance of public Teachers of Piety, Religion and Morality. Thefe infliturions have a niai- feft tendency to eftablifh thofe habits, from whence vill rcfult dLie ptC Iua! performance ofcivil du- ties. In another clafs are found thof, wltich guard the avenues of the'heart againf. corruption and depravity ; thefe prohibit iewdnefs, intemperance, gambling, idleniefs, l:vity, and diflipat;on of man ners. Laws of thi6 nature are inportant in Govvrnment, becaufc tlhey prcvent a difpolitioi to thofe crinnn:;

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