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* session with anxious solicitude, to discharge 



* the several duties assigned to us, with candor^ 



* ability, and promptness ; and that our suffrages 



* will elevate to office some of our wisest and 



* best citizens, and our deliberation result in 



* such measures as will promote the cause of 



* piety and virtue among the people, and secure 



* the g-reat objects of justice. 



' We shall bestow that early consideration on 



* the several subjects pointed out in your ex- 



* ceilency's address, which they respectively 

 *• ;merit, and shall cheerfully co-operate with yorr 



* excellency, in.tver}^ measure which may tend 



* to promote the honor and interest of this state : 

 ' Particularly that part of it v.-hich relates to our 



* fellow citizens the militia ; whose interests, in 

 ' common with our own, we unite with you in 



* believing, have strong clairps en legislative 

 ' aid."^^ 



Nothing appeared to discover ^e designs 

 imd feelings o-f parties till the appointment of 

 civil oiTicers eao«e on. When such appoint- 

 ments are made by popular assemblies, they 

 must always ■ admit of much room for intrigue, 

 self interests, and private views. In addition to 

 the usual motives of this kind, the republicans 

 now meant to strenp^then their own party as 

 much as possible. They had a majority of 

 yotes, but their majority was not large ; they 

 meant however to employ it to weaken and dis- 

 courage their opposers. The former speaker 

 was not reielected. One of the judges of the 

 supreme court was displaced ; two new judges 

 were appointed in the county of Windham ; 



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