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December 9, 1800
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The Senate and House of Representatives of New-Hampshire deliver formal responses to the Governor's speech at the session's opening, affirming the state's prosperity, commitment to the Constitution, vigilance against foreign influences, support for religion and morality, and intention to appoint electors for U.S. President and Vice-President while reviewing revenue and laws.
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New-Hampshire Legislature.
Answer of the Senate to the Governor's Speech.
May it please your Excellency,
WITH pleasing sensations, the Senate of New-Hampshire have received your Excellency's Address at the opening of the present session, and are highly gratified in the view of that prosperity and tranquility which the Citizens of this State generally enjoy; to continue and promote which, by attending to the duties enjoined us in the Constitution, shall be our constant and ardent endeavour.
When we consider the effects of that revolutionizing spirit which has overthrown the Governments and corrupted the Morals of some foreign Nations, we esteem it a duty incumbent on every Citizen of this State, by all lawful and laudable means, to prevent the infection from spreading in our own Country; and by Precept and Example, encourage true Religion and sound Morality.
The appointment of Electors for choosing a President and Vice-President of the United States, is a matter of high importance, to which we shall give due attention. Calling to Mind those scenes of slaughter and devastation lately exhibited in foreign Countries, and viewing them as proceeding from a demoralizing and anti-social conspiracy, we gratefully acknowledge the kindness and superintendancy of that Divine Being, who, through the means of a good system of Government, wisely administered, has hitherto preserved our Country from becoming a Theatre for the exhibition of scenes so afflicting and horrid.
To guard against the arts and intrigues of foreign Nations, is necessary for the preservation of our own Independence! and we participate with your Excellency in that satisfaction which results from the attachment to our National Government, so conspicuous in the Citizens generally, as well as the Legislators of this State.
Whatever may appear necessary with respect to the Revenue, or the revision of particular laws, shall be carefully attended to.
Your Excellency's Official conduct hitherto, leaves us no room to doubt of your care and prompt attention to promote the Peace and Prosperity of the State: and we join with you in the pious wish, that "The Supreme Governor of the Universe may guide us all in the way of peace and happiness" -and that under his special care, the blessings we now enjoy may be continued to the inhabitants of these United States, and their posterity, to the latest generations.
Answer of the House to the Governor's Speech.
May it please your Excellency.
THE prosperity, good order, and tranquility, that so universally pervade this State, are strong inducements to the House of Representatives, to persevere in the faithful discharge of the duties assigned them. In the Constitution, we recognize the Supreme Law of the Land equally obligatory on the Legislature and its constituents; and it is a pleasing consideration, that our duty and happiness unite in urging a constant attention to its benevolent principles.
To encourage Literature and the Arts; to increase the means of useful knowledge; to give due support to Religion; and to cherish the moral and social virtues, are duties taught alike by reason and our constitution, and are the surest means to perpetuate the blessings of a free Government.
A retrospective view of the late state of our Country previous to the adoption of our Federal Constitution, when compared with our present prosperous circumstances, exhibits a contrast flattering to every lover of his Country, and should excite in us the most anxious solicitude to transmit the blessings of our government inviolate, to posterity.
The unparalleled calamities of a war, which has so long overwhelmed a large portion of the European world with devastation and bloodshed, ought to produce in every American breast the most unreserved approbation of our Government which has preserved us against a participation in its horrors.
Free Governments ought, at all times, to be guarded with great care and caution against unnecessary innovation, and more especially so when a rage for novelty in foreign countries furnishes examples of change dangerous to every well regulated Government.
The fate of those nations who have lost their liberties through foreign influence and intrigue, affords the strongest motive to vigilance against any attempts to involve us in the destructive consequences of European wars.
In appointing Electors on the part of this State for choosing a President and Vice President of the United States, we feel the high responsibility devolved on us, and it shall be our endeavour to elect such characters to this important office, as are deserving of public confidence, and who have given unequivocal evidence of their invariable attachment to our General Government.
The state of our Revenue, and the laws regulating our Exports, will receive seasonable and due attention; and we doubt not your readiness to attend to all such measures as the Legislature may judge necessary, to promote public happiness, and prosperity.
Answer of the Senate to the Governor's Speech.
May it please your Excellency,
WITH pleasing sensations, the Senate of New-Hampshire have received your Excellency's Address at the opening of the present session, and are highly gratified in the view of that prosperity and tranquility which the Citizens of this State generally enjoy; to continue and promote which, by attending to the duties enjoined us in the Constitution, shall be our constant and ardent endeavour.
When we consider the effects of that revolutionizing spirit which has overthrown the Governments and corrupted the Morals of some foreign Nations, we esteem it a duty incumbent on every Citizen of this State, by all lawful and laudable means, to prevent the infection from spreading in our own Country; and by Precept and Example, encourage true Religion and sound Morality.
The appointment of Electors for choosing a President and Vice-President of the United States, is a matter of high importance, to which we shall give due attention. Calling to Mind those scenes of slaughter and devastation lately exhibited in foreign Countries, and viewing them as proceeding from a demoralizing and anti-social conspiracy, we gratefully acknowledge the kindness and superintendancy of that Divine Being, who, through the means of a good system of Government, wisely administered, has hitherto preserved our Country from becoming a Theatre for the exhibition of scenes so afflicting and horrid.
To guard against the arts and intrigues of foreign Nations, is necessary for the preservation of our own Independence! and we participate with your Excellency in that satisfaction which results from the attachment to our National Government, so conspicuous in the Citizens generally, as well as the Legislators of this State.
Whatever may appear necessary with respect to the Revenue, or the revision of particular laws, shall be carefully attended to.
Your Excellency's Official conduct hitherto, leaves us no room to doubt of your care and prompt attention to promote the Peace and Prosperity of the State: and we join with you in the pious wish, that "The Supreme Governor of the Universe may guide us all in the way of peace and happiness" -and that under his special care, the blessings we now enjoy may be continued to the inhabitants of these United States, and their posterity, to the latest generations.
Answer of the House to the Governor's Speech.
May it please your Excellency.
THE prosperity, good order, and tranquility, that so universally pervade this State, are strong inducements to the House of Representatives, to persevere in the faithful discharge of the duties assigned them. In the Constitution, we recognize the Supreme Law of the Land equally obligatory on the Legislature and its constituents; and it is a pleasing consideration, that our duty and happiness unite in urging a constant attention to its benevolent principles.
To encourage Literature and the Arts; to increase the means of useful knowledge; to give due support to Religion; and to cherish the moral and social virtues, are duties taught alike by reason and our constitution, and are the surest means to perpetuate the blessings of a free Government.
A retrospective view of the late state of our Country previous to the adoption of our Federal Constitution, when compared with our present prosperous circumstances, exhibits a contrast flattering to every lover of his Country, and should excite in us the most anxious solicitude to transmit the blessings of our government inviolate, to posterity.
The unparalleled calamities of a war, which has so long overwhelmed a large portion of the European world with devastation and bloodshed, ought to produce in every American breast the most unreserved approbation of our Government which has preserved us against a participation in its horrors.
Free Governments ought, at all times, to be guarded with great care and caution against unnecessary innovation, and more especially so when a rage for novelty in foreign countries furnishes examples of change dangerous to every well regulated Government.
The fate of those nations who have lost their liberties through foreign influence and intrigue, affords the strongest motive to vigilance against any attempts to involve us in the destructive consequences of European wars.
In appointing Electors on the part of this State for choosing a President and Vice President of the United States, we feel the high responsibility devolved on us, and it shall be our endeavour to elect such characters to this important office, as are deserving of public confidence, and who have given unequivocal evidence of their invariable attachment to our General Government.
The state of our Revenue, and the laws regulating our Exports, will receive seasonable and due attention; and we doubt not your readiness to attend to all such measures as the Legislature may judge necessary, to promote public happiness, and prosperity.
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Governor Speech Response
Senate Address
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Electors Appointment
Federal Constitution
Foreign Influences
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The Senate and House of Representatives respond to the Governor's speech, expressing commitment to the Constitution, prosperity, religion, morality, caution against foreign revolutionary influences, gratitude for preservation from European wars, intention to appoint suitable electors for U.S. President and Vice-President, and attention to revenue and laws.