Virginia Argus

Extract from Governor Greenup's Speech to the Legislature of Kentucky.

"The period of your annual meeting has arrived, and I am pleased to be able to say, that since your last session, no political occurrence of a singular or extraordinary kind has transpired. Happy with us, the lapse of a year is marked only by the roll of seasons, and the resulting avocations of man—Instead of mingling condolence on the ravages of war, or deploring the convulsion of intrigue or faction, we have to felicitate ourselves, and we ought to feel a gratitude to the ruler of events, that the government of America has as yet been permitted to escape those worst of evils—That she enjoys peace, and that all is tranquil—We ought not however to forget that from foreign war or domestic inquietude. no government whatever has escaped That appearances at present are rather inauspicious—And that our reliance in either event under a benign providence, may well be placed in the attachment of our citizens to their government, in their unanimity and co-operation so signally displayed in the revolution, and in a redeeming energy in the texture of the general government: upon which as upon the rock of our political salvation let us entirely repose.

"In viewing the aspect of things at home we find that the roll of the last season, has not been the most kindly. The alarm excited by the long and severe drought was felt by all, & forebodings of the most unpleasant kind indulged; but thanks to an indulgent providence, such is our enviable situation in point of soil and climate that the most forbidding season has no other influence upon our harvest, than to reduce habitual profusion, down to temporary economy, without imposing distress or inflicting want upon any grade of society? Such only, I feel a pleasure in saying has been the effect of the last season on this favoured land. Agriculture, commerce & manufactures seem to be shaping their own courses and to be in a state of silent but perceivable progression—Ease and contentment appear to be the most prominent traits of the general complexion; and yours gentlemen is the pleasing task, by legislative vigilance and scrutiny—still farther to promote this happy state of things."