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Executive Of this state, personally, or by let
ter, shall net fail to do that duty with the
respect due to the office and the state over
which YOU preside.


In this state, as we'll as in all others of the
U. S. that | have visited, am gratified to
find around me, men and fatriots, and the
defendants of men and hatriots, who fought
and bled for the independence Of our coun-
try: and who in Sept. 1887, in the first par
agraph of rare and very interesting work |
which would recommend to your attention
united with the patriots OF other states in say
ing-"We the people of the United States in
order to form more perfect union, estab-
ish Justice, ensure domestic tranquility, pro-
vide for the common defence, promote the
general welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves, and our posterity, do
ordain and establish this constitution for the
United States of America" Among such
men cannot feel myself as stranger in a
foreign land! Many of these men am assur-
ed will do me the justice to believe that the
United States soldier, whose respectful COM
nunications of June and July last, you an
swercd with official arrog gance, would cheer
fully seize upon any proper occasion to throw
himself between them and the fire of an in
vading foe; to save from harm the humblest
citizen of the state My.mlitary command
has alternately within few years past, ex
tended to every state and territory of the
Republic. | have at different times been
honored with the acquaintance and occa"
sional correspondence of more than twenty
Of the state and territorial Governors, from
neither of whom except yourself and one 9TH
err, have ever received any expression 9TH
CT than of the most dignihed, amicable, and
polite kind. | have addressed one and all Of
f,nt,A flA a. htAap ff.1f fpr
of that respect, which naturally flows from
, an habtual devotion to the beloved institu-
tions of our common country, no feature Of
which is in my estimation so valuable as
that which secures the just rights and priv
! ilcges of the individual states; rights and
privileges defined bv the constitutions, and
, known laws, and not such as depend upon
the prejudice and passion ola few individu-
ais rights and privileges to promote the in
tercst and honor of the Union.


t With these impressions have approach
t ed the state authorities, not as. fcreign Prin-
l. ces, but as brethren of one great political
. family, whose fair fame has already attrac-
ted the admiration of every civilized country
! and whose example has led to the establish
n ment of liberty in South America, and
S promises to aid in its final extension and


permanent establishment throughout every
nation ot the WOTlu. OUCH lllStNutlohS SfiOhiu


not be sported with. A public officer resol-
c we'd to act the part of boid man, when he
Is has lost the character of wise one may
a sometimes perhaps, innoccntly amuse him :
;; self in attempts to pass off the turbulence
of his laundering words of force and the
frenzy Of his party peal for fire; but when
q hc thus writes himself into a great passion
Of about nothing, and when he permits himself
% toutter threats in the face of such institu~
h tions, and gravcly appeals to his comrades


and ''co- workers" and says unto them shay
" ing exhausted the argument we will stand
Is by our arms" we (,he people) involuntarl-
I'd ~ call to mind the ludicrous idea OF llcenti-
" ousnes personifcd in the act of "tweakns
cs justice by the nose and the babe beating the
j, nurse"-and it becomes grave question tt
determine whether to smile or be serious u,


such excentriciticS.


Wishing your Excellcncy health and res.


pect, have the honor to be


EDMUND PENDLETON GAINES,


Maj Gen. Comd' &


To his Excellcncy George Nj. Troup,
S Governor of Georgia.


