INAUGURAL SPEECH.
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Friends, and Frllssv Citizens,


The honor which our confituents have
conferred, by my election, for third peri
cd to the Office of Covernour, accept with
greatful fenle Of their confidence and
with an undiminiihed zeal for their fervice.


1t is true, that fome circumstances have
occurred, in the courlc of the election,
which | did not anticipate, as refpe6ted my
felf; but which more than on my own,
lament on account of the public / did not
anticipate that the clele of life iincerely
devoted, as far as means and judgment, ex-
tend, TO advance the liberty, independence
and pref fperity of my native country, would
have been embittered BY any imputation Of
4 dereliction Of principe, or any ulurpa-
ton of power by artful combinations to
impair the confidence Of the people or by
groundefs flanders to detroy an honeR re-
putation. Thefc however, are evils, in re
lation to the individual, of too little moment
70 attract your attention; but as they affect
the great interefs, political and focial, or
the community, you will regard them with
al anxious eye.-If therefore in the courie
of fhort retrofpea, you fhould dfcover,
that the preis has been contaminated by the
fouleit pollutions that political incendia-
ries, juit landed on our ihorcs, attempt to
acquire, for fnifer Purpoies. the maitery OF