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CentleBter Of the Senate. and


Gentlemen Of the House Of Representatives,


THE return of the election season brings
with it little of novelty, but much to engage
and interest us. Past events, and long
catalogue of Patriots and Statesmen, with
the recollection of whom the transactions
of the season are associated, recur 10 the
mind and enter deeply into the meditation
OF the occasion.


History, ti@- sss4sz.sas~*s~~->ss;sy-
character of man, exhibits TO Us not oas
the perpetual conflict of reason and the pas-
sions, of striking alterations of rectisude
and error, and the commanding powers and
extreme imbecility of the human mind, but
the formation of governments, their pro-
gressive changes and ultimate catastrophe.


But without extending our view over the
general history of men or of governments,
tic memorials of the migrauon and settle
tnent, the character and manners, the po-
lilical and religious principle, and the lite
rary institutions of our forefathers the
rise, progress and termination of the mo-
mentous question between &. Britain and
her colonies, now the United States OF A.
merica, respecting the right OF Parliamen-
tary Taxation the origin, structure and
establishment ofour systems of jurispru-
dence, and their influence upon individual
and social happiness, open various and pro-
life sources of instruction to the Legislator,
and Of proud satisfaction to the American
Patriot.


You are called upon, Gentlemen, TO ex-
ercise the functions of legislation at time
highly propitioas for impartial inquiry into
the great interests of the Commonwealth.
For long succession of years such was the
extraordinary state of mos; Of the nations
Of Europe with which our interests are in.
volyed, that the minds of your predecessors
have been occupied with painful apprehen-
sions of the public safety or with the ardu-
aus da,ies of providing warlike means for.
public defence. During that eventful peri
cd, the ordinary avocations OF many OF cur
fellow citizens were interrupted. Naviga
ton, Commerce, Manufactures, and even
Agriculture, assumed or were forced into
preternatural state. Vast numbers OF the
people were compelled to abandon the pur-
SQilS "AtIu tid0 SShINkS1t RA0HA~
dentiai allotments had facilitated, and habit
had rendered familiar and lucrative, and re.
sort was had in too many instances to des>-
perate projects Of speculation and adyen-
tnre, equally eluding calculation, ruinous tc
individuals and yitiating to public morals.


But the public mind being now relieved
from its discuie,ing solici,ude by the the
internal tranquility of the state, the elevated
character of our republican systems of
Government, the respectable condition Of
public credit. resting onits primitive princi-
pies Of fiscal administration, and the exist
ing relations of amity between the United
States and the other commercial ns,ions of
the world; you are happily indulged with the
opportunity Of turning your attention spe,
cislly to The interior concerns OF the Com
monweallh. And coming as you 10 from
every sec'icn Of the state, you bring With