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1808 59 (1808)

handle is hein.ssl/ssma0389 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLVES,,
Of   the General Court of        Massachusetts,
P4SSED AT -TII1- SESSION BEGAN ANl JUL4D% AT ~0~N      I
WEDNESDAY. T1E SIkTH DAY OF JANUARY, A.fl. 1808.
GOVERNOR'S -SPEECH
SrAE-lousEj FRIDAY JANUA&RY 8
At 12 o'clock, the ;Senate attended in the .Represqntaives' Cham
6er, agreeably to 'assignment, whe It TH4  xcellcncy the Gover-
nor, entered, attended by the Hon6uirabe Council and ther Shzer
of Sufolk, and delivered the fiowing
GEN2'LEMEIV 6F T;HE E4B    N
Gr:,NTLEM~EN OF THE 11o0UsB OF REPRESENVi'T1 zvS9
I HAD the honouar, in your last session, to submit
to your consideration, my sentiments upon the nature of our
Commonwealth, as a Government in itself, and as a State form-
ing an important member of the Government of the United
States.
I then expressed to you my ideas, of what might be consid-
ered a due and regular administration of a Government ,thus
situted and thus connected. On a careful revision, of that com-
munication, I do not find aniy' materialerro rs, in the principles
up on which it was predicated--I shall; theiefore, improve the
advantages of this intcview, i anattention to the jurisprudence
-of the State. ;tid to its defence against foreign enemies.
larL seen tha the matters, which' w     1 ',more partw,
lar    nar' your atntio 4, must'relat& to' the ,nt i v 
me,' t i  1 '.''rnonwealth, and .to'its defetinse,'against the inva-
sion Ulcih power --That, t--h1.se),:h~     rg~r   tefS

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