Address
REPUBLICAN ADDRESS.
The Republican Members of the Legislature of the State of New-York, to their Constituents.
Fellow Citizens,
Your Representatives, feeling with you a common interest in the public welfare, and firmly believing that the future peace and prosperity of the state, essentially depend on the result of the ensuing election, take the liberty, before their separation, to make a second... Continue Reading
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REPUBLICAN ADDRESS.
At a meeting of the Republican members of the Legislature, held in the Senate chamber on the evening of the 9th April, 1819, Roger Skinner, Esq. of the Senate, was called to the chair, and Hart Weed, of the Assembly, appointed secretary.
The committee appointed by the previous meeting to prepare an address, reported the following, which was unanimously adopted, and ordered to... Continue Reading
Feeling and speaking the sentiments of the republicans of the county of Columbia, whom we have been appointed to represent, we consider it our duty to communicate to you our ideas on the present important crisis.
Cordially approbating the nomination made by our fellow citizens at Albany, among whom we rejoice to see a respectable majority of the republicans of the present legislature, we have no... Continue Reading
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Pursuant to the usage of their predecessors, your representatives in Senate and Assembly met at the capitol in this city, to designate the counties from which the next candidates for senators for the middle district ought to be taken. The proceedings above detailed shew the result of their deliberations. The length of time for which this mode of designation has been pursued, its obvious fitness,... Continue Reading
The enlightened view which the Senate has taken of the great events, that have lately transpired, and of their probable influence upon the interests and destiny of the United States, displays wisdom and patriotism worthy of that dignified body. Their favorable notice of my official conduct, in the recent emergency, receives the most respectful acknowledgments; & a continuance of their... Continue Reading
Recipient: New York Senate
The Senate at the close of their last session indulged with your Excellency in the pleasing expectation, that before this period the blessings of peace would have been restored to their country on terms consistent with its honor & Interest, they are however by subsequent events reluctantly compelled to bear testimony to the insincerity of the professions on which those reasonable expectations... Continue Reading
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At a time when our country is engaged in war with one of the most powerful nations on earth, in defence of our national rights and sovereignty; when opposition has reared her hydra form, and put at defiance the constituted authorities; when treason walks forth at noon-day, and, under the specious garb of patriotism, sounds the tocsin of alarm, and invites you to marshal yourselves under her... Continue Reading
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It is not to the arbitrary mandates of despotic power, that your submission is demanded; it is not to the seductive wiles and artful blandishments of the corrupt minions of aristocracy, that your attention is called—but to an expression and discussion of the wishes and feelings of your representatives.
You are invited to listen with calmness and impartiality, to the sentiments and opinions of men... Continue Reading
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It is not to the arbitrary mandates of despotic power, it is not to the that your submission is demanded. It is not to the wishes of the ^seductive^ wiles and ^artfull^ blandishments of the corrupt minions of aristocracy, that your attention is called, but ^it is^ to an expression and discussion of the wishes & feelings and sentiments of your representatives. that your consideration is... Continue Reading
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THE Senate fully concur with your excellency in the sentiment, that at a period like the present, when our country is engaged in war with one of the most powerful of the nations of Europe, difference of opinion on abstract points should not be suffered to impede or prevent an united and vigorous support of the constituted authority of the nation; and duly impressed with a conviction that in the... Continue Reading
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As well those of you who are attached to the present administration of your general and state governments, as you who, though doubting the propriety of some of their measures, have still a sense of patriotism, a love of country that soars above the mean and selfish considerations of party—we invite your attention. A crisis has arrived in the affairs of our common country, which demands the cool,... Continue Reading
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The Republican Members of the Legislature, at the close of the last session, announced to you their conviction, that the prosperity of the republican party, and the welfare of the state, required a change of the chief magistrate. Subsequent events have proved the correctness of this opinion, and enforced the expediency of this measure.
While a doubt existed that Governor Clinton had abandoned the... Continue Reading
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The republican members of the legislature, at the close of the last session, announced to their constituents their firm conviction that ^you their conviction that the prosperity of the republican pary and so^ the welfare of the state required a change of the Chief Magistrate. Subsequent events have proved the correctness of this opinion and enforced the expediency of this measure. While a doubt... Continue Reading
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Recipient: New York Assembly
Message of the Governor.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE ASSEMBLY.
Gentlemen,
The resolution of your honourable house, of the 10th of November, relative to an intimation in my speech, at the opening of the session, has been respectfully considered, and duly appreciated—and I shall now communicate to you, agreeably to your request, the evidence in my possession relative to the improper interference of the... Continue Reading
Sender: DeWitt Clinton
Recipient: New York Assembly
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and Assembly,
I approach the high trust committed to my care, with a profound sense of the unmerited honor conferred upon me by the people, and an earnest solicitude to fulfil the obligations of gratitude which their favor has imposed. Associated with these feelings, is a consciousness of inferiority to that accomplished statesman, whose sudden removal from the post... Continue Reading
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Recipient: New York Legislature
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