"Provided, That the proportion of said fund to be assigned to any state, or any part thereof, may by the assent of such state be applied to the purposes aforesaid in any other state." 3011-26. The hill being amended, finally passed as follows: YEAS.-Messrs. Ashmun, Barbour, Campbell, Daggett, Golds. horough, Hanson. Hardin, Howell, Hunter, King, Lacock, Macon, Morrow, Roberts, Ruggles, Sauford, Stokes, Talbot, Tait, Taylor, Tichenor, Troup, Wells-23. NAYS. Messrs. Brown, Chace, Dana, Fromentin, Gaillard, Ma. This ion was decided by the following vote: YEAS.-Messrs. Barbour, Brown, Chace, Fromentin, Golds-son, of N. H. Noble, Smith, Varnum, Wilson--10, The following resolution was reported by the borough, Hanson, Harlin, Horsey, Hunter, King, Lacock, Mason, of H Mason, of Va. Morrow, Nobis, Roberts, Ruggles, Sanford, committee, to whom was referred so much of the Stokes, Falbot, Tait. Taylor, Thompson, Tichenor, Wells, Wil-president's message as relates to an uniformity of NAYS-Messrs. shrnun, Campbell, Condit, Daggett, Daua, Gail weights and measures, and was adopted by the selard, Howell, Macon, Smith, Troup, Varuum, Williams-12. Mr. Dagget offered a provision wich had for its purpose a privilege of liverting this fund in case of war-negatived, ayes 18, noes 19. The question of reading the bill with the amend ments, the third time, was deci led as follows: nate: Resolved, That it be referred to the secretary of state to prepare and report to the senate a statement relative to the regulation and standards for weights and measures in the several states, and relative proceedings in foreign countries for estabYEAS-Messrs, Barbour, Brown, Frontin, Goldsborough, Han-lishing uniformity in weights and measures; toge son, Hardin, Horsey, Kg. Lacock, Mason, of N. H. Masol, of Vather with such propositions, relative thereto, as may Morrow, Noble, Roberts, Ruggles, Sanford, Stokes, Talbot, Tait, be proper to be adopted in the United States. Taylor. WBs. Wilson-22. NAYS-Mesars. Ashmun, Campbell, Chace, Condit, Daggett, Dana, Gaillar 1, Howell, Hunter. Macon, Smith, Thompson, Tiche nor Troup, Varnum, Williams-16. After another proposition for amendment, by Mr. Daggett, which was negatived-yeas 14, nays 21, the question on the passage of the bill was decided as follows: The bill to regulate the trade in plaster of Paris, having been so amended as to take effect on the 4th day of July (instead of the 1st day of May next) passed by the following vote: YEAS.-Messrs. Ashmun, Barbour, Brown, Campbell, Chace Condit, Daggett, Dana, Fromentin, Gaillard, Hardin, Horsey, How ell, Hunter, King, Lacock, Macon, Morrow, Noble, Roberts, Rug YEAS-Messrs. Barbour, Brown, Fromentin, Goldsborough, Han-les. Sanford, Smith, Stokes, Talbot, Tait, Thompson, Tichenor, Troup, Varnum, Williams, Wilson-32. NAYS.-Messrs. Hanson, Mason, of Va. Taylor.-3 son, Hardin Horsey. King, Lacock, Mason, of N. H Mason, of Va. Morrow, Roberts, Ruggles, Sanford, Stokes, Tait, Taylor, Wells, Wilson-20. NAYS-M srs. Ashmun, Campbell, Chace, Daggett, Dana, Gail lard, Howell, Hemter, Macon, Noble, Smith, Thompson, Tichenor, Troup, Varbum, Williams-15. Other proceedings of the senate. The bill to authorize the state of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles on certain entries and locations of lands therein described, together with the amendments reported thereto by the select commit ee, was ordered to a third reading by the following vote: YEAS-Messrs. Ashmun, Brown, Campbell, Daggett. Fromentin, The senate took up the bill to incorporate the unchartered banks in this district; and a motion was made by Mr. King, to postpone the further consideration of the bill indefinitely. March 3.-The following resolution, moved by Mr. Goldsborough, was agreed to: Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of the senate be presentented to the honorable JoHN GAILLARD, for the able and satisfactory manner in which he has discharged the duties of the president protempore of the senate since his appointment to that office, and that this testimonial of their approbation and respect be entered upon their journal. Whereupon Mr. GAILARD rose, and addressed the senate as follows: GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE, The approbation of a body so respectable and distinguished as that which I have now the honor to address, is received with the most profound res pect, and will ever be to me a source of pleasing and of grateful recollection. To the habits of or der, of decorum, and attention to business, which so strongly mark the character of this honorable body, I have felt myself to be greatly indebted, but more, much more so, to that spirit of liberality YEAS.-Messrs. Ashmun, Condit, Hunter, King, Macon, Ma and indulgence which has been extended to me ou son, of N. H. Morrow, Smith, Tait, Thompson, Tichenor, Wil-all occasions, and which has been ever ready to The question was, after debate, decided as follows: liams-12. NAYS-Messrs. Barbour, Brown. Campbell, Chace, Daggett, Dana Fro nentin Gaillard, Goldsborough, Hanson, Horsey, Howell, Mason, of Va. Noble, Roberts, Ruggles, Sanford, Stokes, Tay lar, Troup, Varnum, Wells, Wilson-23. The senate then proceeded to consider the details of the bill. Before the senate adjourned, this bill was order. ed to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow. overlook my many deficiencies and errors, and to overrate my feeble humble efforts which have been directed with anxious solicitude to the faithful and impartial discharge of the duties of the chair. If, in the course of my official conduct, it should have been my misfortune to have wounded the feelings of any honorable members, or in aught to have of fended, I can assure them that such offence was unFeb 28. & March 1.-The bill concerning perutentional on my part, and I pray them to accept sons escaping from the service of their masters, this apology as an atonement. ws, on motion of Mr. Tait, postponed to a day be- gentlemen, to tender to you collectively, as well Fond the session. [The object of this bill, was to as individually, my grateful acknowledgements for prevent kidnapping free persons as slaves; the objection was, that it would afford impunity almost your kindness, and my warmest wishes for your prosperity and happiness. absolute to slaves deserting the service of their owners] The bill to extend the charters of the chartered banks in the District of Columbia, was, on motion of Mr. Goldsborough, postponed to a day beyond the session. The bill more effectually to preserve the neutral relations of the United States, being before the senate, a motion was made by Mr. Smith to postpone it to a day beyond the session; which motion failed: Yeas 8, nays 28. Permit me now, March 4-About 11 o'clock Mr. Gaillard, the president pro tempore of the senate, took the chair, and the following new members appeared (besides those whose term of service did not expire yesterday) were qualified and took their seats: From New-Hampshire-David L. Morri!l. Messrs. Stokes, Smith, Troup and Williams, members of the last congress, reappeared and also took the house adjourned for one hour. Several bills passed through different states, and their seats Mr. Eppes, from Virginia, Mr. Crittenden, from Kentucky, and Mr. Claiborne from Louisiana, three other new members, did not attend. The VICE PRESIDENT having appeared and taken his seat, &c. the senate adjourned to to-morrow. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Friday, February 28.-Mr. Hurrison submitted for consideration the following proposition to amend the constitution of the United States: Evening session, Murch 1.-Some time was spent on the bill making appropriations for claims for militia services by the state of Georgia, against the Indians, 25 years ago-laid on the table; time to examine the bill being wanting. As was also the bill, and for the same reason, from the senate, authorising the state of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles, &c. Several bills were ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday. March 3-Both houses adjourned after midnight, Revolved, by the senate and house of representatives after an arduous session, with only one hour's reof the United States, in congress assembled, two-thirds cess for the whole day. We have rot seen a detail of both houses concurring therein, That the following of the proceedings, but much business was variously al endment to the constitution of the United States, disposed of. See the list of acts, published in our be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, last. which, when ratified by the legislatures of three- Immediately after the opening of the evening sitfourth- of said states, shall be valid to all intents ting of the house of representatives, Mr. Mills, of and prposes, as a part of the said constitution: Massachusettts, moved a resolution in the following words: “Congress shall, concurrent with the states, have po er to provide for training the militia according Resolved, That the thanks of this house be pre. to the discipline prescribed for that purpose, and, sented to the honorable HENRY CLAY, for the ability whilst engaged in that service, they shall be subject and impartiality with which he has presided over to the rules and regulations prescribed for the its deliberations, and the correctness with which he government of the militia when in the military ser has performed the arduous duties of the chair." vice of the United States, and also to provide for This vote was carried with an unanimity the most teaching in the primary schools, and other semina-flattering. [Mr. Hopkinson observed that the only ries of learning in the several states, the system of objection he had to it was, hat the house was thin, discipline prescribed for the militia." and that it would, therefore, not be seen that, if The s.id proposition was read and ordered to lie the house had been full, there would not have been on the table a dissenting vote.] The motion was unanimously Mr. Ward, of N. Y. offered a resolution to autho-agreed to. rise the employment of col. Trumbull, to execute, On adjourning the house, in addition to the paintings already authorised, a Mr. Clay said, that, before he performed the last painting to commemorate the patriotic conduct of duty of the presiding officer of the house, he would Paulding, Van Wart and Williams, in capturing avail himself of the occasion to make his respectmjor Andre, a British spy, during the American re-ful acknowledgements, for the flattering expression volnon-read and laid on the table. of favorable opinion which had been recently made The bill to explain the act respecting military and which was rendered more interesting by the bounty lands, was indefinitely postponed. quarter from which it proceeded. Next to the apMany bills were ordered to a third reading to-probation of one's own conscience, and one's county, that of the immediate representative of the Saturday, March 1.-Many bills (which appear people must ever be most acceptable. But he felt in the list of acts) were passed. morrow. The house took up the amendments of the senate to the bill sent from this house, to amend the claims law of las session-which amendments go to change altogether the character of the bill, Vil which, after considerable opposition, were agreed to. that, in the instance of that just bestowed on him, he was more indebted to the kindness than to the justice of the house. For he was quite sensible that, in the course of his administration of the duties of the chair, called upon as he frequently was, pomptly to decide complicated and embarrassing questions, as they suddenly arose, he must have Tatamendments proposed by the senate to the committed many errors. And if he had been able, amendments of the house to the bill from the senate in any degree, to satisfy the just expectations of "to provide for the prompt settlement of the public the house, it was owing to that liberal support which accounts," were read and concurred in by the house had been, on all sides, generously accorded to him. The amendments proposed by the senate to the In legislation, Mr. C continued, there were three bill "to set apart and pledge, as a permanent fund periods of extraordinary difficulty, and requiring for internal improvement, the bonus of the national great fortitude. The first was that which immebank, and the United States' share of its dividends," diately precedes a war, and in which preparation is made for the event. The second, that which accom were read. A motion was made to postpone the bill indefi-panies the war; and the third, that which immenitely-negatived, ayes 61, nays 6: and then to post-diately follows the war. During the two first, howpone it until Monday-negatived, ay es 66, nays 68. ever, there were animating circumstances, always The amendments of the senate were then agreed to. existing, which invigorated the legislative function. The bill to incorporate sundry banks in the Dis-During the last the stimulus is gone, and being retrict of Columbia was read the first and second time, placed by relaxation, the legislator needs more forand referred to a committee of the whole, by the casting vote of the speaker. titude. He has to survey the whole fabric of the state; to accommodate it to the new circumstances in which it is placed; to provide a revenue for redeeming the debt of the war; to retrench; and, by the reduction of establishments, to dismiss from he service of the country many of those who have A motion was made to adjourn to to-morrow (Sun-nobly contributed to sustain its glory. Several bills were ordered to a third reading. Mr. Forsyth's resolutions about the conduct of the U. S bank, were, on his own motion, for want of time, indefinitely postponed. Bay) at 11 o'clock, and negatived-yeas 68, nays 48. It has been your lot, gentlemen, to be cast in the last of the three periods mentioned. And I take great ness; that they would during that period have con. It remained for him only to announce that the house stood adjourned sine die. Legislature of Pennsylvania. SENATE OF PENNSYLVANIA-FEB. 14, 1817. The following preamble and resolution were of fered by Mr. Lowrie, and adopted, and a committee accordingly appointed.; The United States, remote from the governments of Europe, possessing a territory enriched with natural advantages and rescources, amply sufficient not only to supply the wants of the inhabitants, but also to furnish in abundance the elegancies of civilized society, are by these circumstances favorably situated to become a manufacturing nation. think it not sound policy to persevere in those errors which have proved ruinous to others, and in the face of conviction which ought to low from history, experience and our own observation, to trust to the visionary expectation that the same causes which led to power in Europe will pro luce ruin here. That by crossing the Atlantic every maxim of national policy is reversed; that the connexion between causes and effects is dissolved; that every great and enlightened price and nation in the old world have for centuries mistaken their vital interest, by not adhering to theories which have been exploded by practical experience. Man and all his works are helpless in infancy. The noblest then require the protection and noùrishment of a parent. Seeing establishments in their greatness, we are apt to forget the humble beginning from which they have risen; but when traced to their origin it will be found that in every To assist in calling these advantages and resour-enlightened government, they have been its nurs ces into action-thereby rendering the United States lings in their infancy. In such governments, manu. independent of other nations-is a duty enforced factures have been the favorite and almost peculiar by interest, patriotism and the love of indepen-objects of their protection; the history of all the manufacturing nations is full of proofs, that whendence. The citizens of this state have already embarked ever a manufacture is in its infancy, it is protected extensive capitals in manufactures, particularly in by duties, bounties, and premiums on the article; iron and glass, woollen and cotton goods. But the privileges, protection and encouragement, to the late large and unprecedented importation of foreign artisan; until the manufacture has progressed so as articles, has given a shock to our infant manufac- to supply the wants of the country. Then the extures, unprotected as they now are by discriminat-portation of the raw material, the importation of ing duties; which, without the interposition of go- the manufactured article, the emigration of the vernment, must result in the ruin of numbers of workmen, and the communication of the knowledge meritorious individuals, and also threatens the most of the art are prohibited under severe penalties, in serious and lasting injury to the future comforts and rising prospects of the community. During this pressure, which militates against the best interests of the state, the fostering hand of government, as far as the same can be extended, becomes necessary. Therefore, Resolved, That a committee be appointed to take into view the situation of the manufactures of this state, and make report. Zeb. 19, 1817-Mr. Lowrie, from the committee to whom was referred the foregoing resolution, made report, which was read as follows, viz. The committee appointed on the 14th inst. to take REPORT: some cases extending to the forfeiture of life. The history of none of these nations can furnish an instance of a manufacture being left to take care of itself, or of its success wiren unaided by govern ment. The committee can discern no good reason why this nation should not follow in the path which has been lighted by the experience of others, and more especially where our own teaches us the immense advantage flowing from manufactures to the places where they have been established. A memorable instance in our own state, is furnished by the unexampled prosperity of Pittsburg— its manufactures have given to it its impoi valice, They have increased the value of every firm within 40 miles of it, by the market which it has forded for the productions of the earth. The prosperity of this place, and the growing importance That the short time allotted to them in the of the country round it, leads us to the true canse intervals of their legislative duties, has not enabled why foreign governments are so zealous in protect. them to go into a detailed investigation of the subing their own, and endeavoring to crush our manuject committed to them. They have given to it factures; they are known to be the real sources of all the attention in their power: the result has national life and power. The comini.tee would ask, whether during the been, a strong conviction of the vital importance of late war the establishment of manufactures had an manufactures to this state and the nation. The committee cannot believe that establish-mjurious effect on the value of land adjoining, or ments to which other nations owe their greatness, on the price of provisions? The farmer who adjoins That the great powers a manufacturing town cannot surely procure a bet can be injurious to ours. of Europe, during five hundred years, have been ter price for his produce as the number of coninattentive to the true sources of national great-sumers diminish. He cannot be benefited by being obliged to seek a more distant market; it must be singe the nation is enriched by exporting toan advantage to find a market at bode without thebeco and importing snuff; cotton and wool, and imexpence of transportation. One hundred men em-p ring cloth; iro, and importing nails and cutlery. ployed in a manufacture, must add to the mand The same profit which the farmer makes or the for the produce of a farm, as there is that addi ional labor employed in converting his flax or wool into number to feed. A turnpike road or a country cloth, is made by the nation on a great scale in contown, is of advantage to the farmer; it gives him a verting the raw material into manufactures. Cotmarket at his door, and he there procures the prices ton is exported at 20 cents a pound; it is imported of the distant market. manufactured at from 1 dollar to 100 dollars a pound, The same effects flow from manufactures; they according to the fineness of the fabric. The differincrease the demand and afford a market on the spot We believe there is no farmer who thinks his interest, as an agricul uralist, is injured by his contiguity to roads, towns, mills, iron works, cot ton, woollen or glass manufactories. On the contrary, he knows and feels that his land produce rises in value; that he is enriched, while he spends no capital and runs no risk. The committee think that all the errors which have affected public opi nion on this subject have arisen from viewing it in the abstract, and not bringing it home to practical observation. ence in the price, is the profit which we pay and England receives. If it injured them, it is strange they would manufacture it. If a profit attends it, it ough to be ours. If manufactures had an injurious effect on agriculture, it must be in the depression of the prices of provisions; but experience proves the reverse. We feed the manufactures of Europe-the reason is obvious; the produce of the earth commands a better price. This fact we think affords a salutary lesson; the manufactures of England afford to their farmers a market at home, while ours are obliged to seek it It will be probably impossible to point out one across the ocean. Their's pay no transportation and spot in the country which has been injured by them no risk; we are obliged to encounter the perils posperity and benefited by the desˇruction of manu- of navigation, of enemies, of orders in council, defactures and the substitution of foreign goods. It crees and pirates. If the export of the raw mawould require much refined and theoretic reasoning terial is more advantageous than the manufacture, to convince our farmers that they will grow rich by we cannot comprehend the policy of all enlightened purchasing their families' clothing at a store, and governments, except ours, which prohibits the expoor if it was made at home. The knitting neelle, port of one and the import of the other; and still the wheel and the loom have been deemed useful less can we comprehend the wisdom of those statesarticles of household furniture. What yeoman does men who contend, that to convert into money those not display with pride and pleasure the clothing productions of the earth which cannot be exported made by his wife and daughters? Can such a man and for all purposes except manufactures, are of be convinced, that he would be more respected no value, (as iron ore) is bad policy. By these and richer if his family remained in idleness? Are means, millions are annually added to the produce heavy merchant's bills clogs or aids to agriculture? of this state; and the committee believe that it Would it not require the same reasoning to con equally couduces to national wealth, whether money vince a farmer that it was is much his interest to is extracted from the bowels of the earth or from buy his bread as his stockings? The committee its surface; each mode adds to the public stock as can perceive no difference between family manufacit adds to the value of property, produce and the tures and more extensive ones, other than in the sum of wealth. extent of the benefits; for what is profitable on a small scale must be so on a large one, as machinery with half the labor produces double the profits. It is certain that population, industry and wealth, are efficient sources of national wealth. How far manufactures conduce to these objects, the opinion By thus testing these principles and making a of this nation expressed through the fathers of our practicable application to families, we come to a independence, the immortal congress of 1774, seems result which cannot be erroneous. The family which buys more than it sells, must be in debt and become poor, and it matters not whether the debt is con tracted for food or raiment. The family which sells more than it buys must become rich. These effects must be the same, whether the family consists of 10, 100, 1000, or a nation; for the aggregate cannot prosper by pursuing measures which rum ali the component individuals Prudence and economy are as necessary to a nation as an individual, and thus we find that the individual and the nation which manufactures most, are alike distinguished among their neighbors for wealth, influence and honor; and thus are the lessons of history and experience con firmed by the observation of every man in his own fannly. to the committee conclusive. They recommended by a solemn resolution, that no manufacture of England should be used or worn. If in their opinion this was then necessary to rescue us from colonial bondage, if it was adopted as one of the means the most effectual to resist the tyranny of the mother country, it was because experience and reflection had convinced them, that she was most vulnerable hrough her manufactures. For the same reason the continental system of France has in latter days een directed, not against the territory or the agriculture of England, but her manufactures, the known and acknowledged source of her supremacy. The committee cannot believe that the great principles of national policy can have been so soon reversed, and think that the same principles which It surely cannot be safe to disregard such moni were in 1774 necessary to rescue us, are now the tors: this should be to every one that hears it, the only ones which can prevent us from relapsing into voice of conviction. Folly in an individual canno a virtual bondage to the parent country-that the be wisdom in a nation; the same conduct whic congress of that year were not ignorant of the true would impoverish the one cannot enrich the other interest of the country--that manufactures were To the statesman who says that it is true policy tuen, now are, and ever will be, the vital sources of export the row material and import the manufactu.national life and power; and that it is not reserved ed, the question may be put, would not the farme o the theorist of the present day to teach our own, be in the road to run who would sell his grain an and the enlightened statesmen of all other countries, buy his flour; his fiax, and buy his lines; is milk, that the true principle of legislation has been hitherand buy his butter and cheese? If he would, it is to undiscovered. From personal knowledge and undoubted informa-blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, tion, the committee believe, that in all parts of the gratefully acknowledging the benign Providence by country our manufactures are rapidly declining and which we have been raised to the rank of an indepen sinking under a foreign combination and forced dent nation, and imploring for our beloved country its importation, and the unwillingness of the govern continued protection: Do ordain and establish the folment to protect and uphold them. The intention lowing constitution for the United States of Ameto crush our manufactures has been publicly avowed rica. in England, and has no been resisted here; they are Resolved, That the governor be requested to lf to contend unaided and unprotected, against forward a copy of the foregoing preamble and resoconfederacy abroad and indifference at home. The lution to each of our senators and representatives committee think that the attention of government in the congress of the United States, and to the has been drawn to smaller, and directed from the executives of the several states in the union, with more important concerns of the country-they think a request that the same may be laid before the lemanufactures the primary one, and that before they gislatures thereof. are finally crushed, some efforts should be made to revive them; once abandoned they are gone for many years. The committee are aware, and deepa regret, that the state governments can afford no efficient protection; but they can do something; they can exempt them from taxation, and workmen. while actually employed therein, f om militia duty A reference will probably often be made to the vote -and they can recommend the subject to the atten tion of the members of the legislature of the union. The committee therefore offer the following resolutions: The question was taken on agreeing to the foregoing proposition, and decided in the negative, by large majority. Legislature of New York. below, we insert it for the convenience of our friends in New-York. viz. ELECTION BILL. The following were the yeas and nays in the Resolved, That a committee be appointed to bring house of assembly, on the first clause of the bill in a bill embracing the above principles. for elec'ing a governor of this state, at the ensuing Resolved, by the senate and touse of representa-election, in the place of gov. TOMPKINS, resigned, tives of the commonwealth of Pensylvania, in general assembly met, that our senators in congress be instructed and our members in the house of repre sentatives requested, to use their endeavors to have such measures adopted, as will effectually protect and encourage the manufactures of the United States. In the house of representatives, the following proposition was moved some days ago by Dr. Rogers: DR. NOGERS' RESOLUTIONS. Whereas, we most solemnly believe in the exist. ence of a God and a Providence, who created and sustains the universe, in whose hand are the des tinies of kingdoms, of empires, and all created beings-that it was the angel of Divine Providence, who walked with our fathers through the fiery furnace of the revolutionary war, and gave us a name among the nations of the earth, the most free, independent and happy; that through the benignity: of the same Providence, we have been protected, through a recent bloody conflict, in the enjoyment of the inestimable privileges of religious and civil liberty; and that it is to the same Providence we must look for the preservation of those blessings. Under these serious and solemn impressions, we recollect with deep regret, that in so important an instrument as the "constitution of the United States," there is no recognition of the existence of a God or acknowledgment of the benignity of a Providence. tions: YEAS.-Messrs. Allen, Ambler, Arnold, Barnes, Brown, Barstow, Beach, Beckwith, Benton, Bowen, Burhans. Callender, Camp, Car. man, Carpenter, Cuck, Carli, Child, Ca tine, Day, Dickinson, Eldridge, Ematt, Faulkner, Foula, Ford. Gansevoort, A. Grn, B. Gre, Gros, Hamilton, Hedges, oughtaling. Hilton, Hub bard, Hammond, Hawley, Hulbert, Jones, Jackson. Larz 1 re, M'Fadden, Miles, G. Miller. J. Miller, Mott, Marsh, Noble, Ostrander, Palmer, Pendleton, Pixley, Paine, Pettit, Pitcher. Platt, Ports T Prendergast, Rochester, Sargeant, Sears, E. Sith, R. Smith, Sherman, Squire, Tabor, Turner. Woods, (paker) Wak ly, Wabridge, W ls, Wilcoxson, Wilson, Watson J. Whitney.-79 NAYS.-M ssrs. Blauvelt, Campbell, Cooklin, Cook, Carson, Crolius, Doty, Eckford, Finch, Gale, Ganson, Heeny, Irving, Law rence, Lester, Mann, A. Miller, Mooers, Romaine, Russel, Sanford, Sharpe, J. Smith, S. A. Smith, Stebbins, Townsend, Warner, Webb, Webster, White, Wool.-31 ABSENT.-M ssrs. Albert, Barber, Hallock, Keeler, Kissam, Lee, Maynard, Olmstead, Parsons, Peek, Victory, N. Whitney, The house in committee of the whole--Mr. Williams. For the affirmative.-Messrs. Baets, Bicknell, Cochran, Hascall, Legislature of Delaware. GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS. Gentlemen of the house of representatives: In obedience to the voice of my fellow citizens, I appear before you this day, for the purpose of enTo remedy this material defect, we feel it our tering on the exercise of the duties of the first maindispensable duty to submit the following resolu-gistrate of the state. Permit me to tender, through you, to my fellow citizens, my grateful acknowledgeResolved, By the senate and house of representa-ments for their partiality and kindness. The hotives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that nor they have conferred upon me, I will endeavor our senators in the congress of the United States to merit by constant and unremitted exertions to be instructed, and our representatives requested, to perform the duties of the station to which their use their earnest endeavors to have the preamble to suffrages have called me. My only object shall the constitution of the United States so amended as be to act, with a single eye for the public good to read as follows, viz. and the happiness and prosperity of the people. I In the name of God most holy and most merciful—shall indeed be most happy, if my exertions should We the people of the United States, in order to be crowned with success and be favorably reform a more perfect union, establish justice, insureceived. Bt I cannot flatter myself, that my adSuch an domestic tranquility, provide for the common de ninistration will be exempt from errors. fence, promote the general welfare, and secure the expectation would be presumptuous. Relying how |