Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

MONTPELIER. (Vermont) Oct. 11.

Extract from Gov. Galusha's Speech, just
delivered to the Legislature.

"When we realize the greatness of the
trust reposed in us by so many thousands of
our fellow-citizens, to direct, as their faithful
Representatives, the affairs of a state in which
the happiness of each individual claims equal
regard and the rights of ALL demand the
same protection and support, we shall feel it
our indispensable duty to lay aside all party
prejudices, and suffer ourselves to be actuated by no other motives than those which coincide with individual justice & the greatest general good—and diligently pursue such measures as will be productive of public and private virtue, without which the inestimable blessings of a free government cannot long subsist.

It is not our province to decide on the subject of peace or war, that being by the Constitution of the United States confided to the General Government, it is not my intention to advance any opinion on the subject, or suggest any idea which may tend to excite the passions of my fellow citizens against any foreign nation whatever; and it would much less become me, while negociations for an adjustment are still progressing, which I pray God may terminate in an amicable settlement of all our differences, and that war may never be the unhappy fate of our beloved country.—Let us, in the mean time, as far as possible, be prepared for any event which may occur.

I consider it highly expedient, that a suitable supply of arms should be provided either by this or the United States, for the use of our militia, in cases of urgency.—But whether the present state of our finances will admit of an appropriation for that purpose or not, I shall submit to your sound discretion."