age and encoiiragerrient, no State has been excited to 

 make efforts, equal to its natural resources, or the extenllr 

 of its wants. We, therefore, repose with confidence on 

 the public spirit and intelligence of our rulers, that they 

 will vigorously persevere iii the cOHjrse of policy commen- 

 ced ; that they will multiply encouragements to agricul- 

 tural and manuficturing societies, according to merit, 

 that the good effects intended may be produced. Should 

 "Vvc be asked, IFhat means the State possesses to revive and 

 sustain its rural pursuits ? its numerous manufactures? 

 its roads, canals and interior channels of communication ? 

 We reply : The State has possession of ample resources, 

 such as the enterpiizing States of New- York and Penn- 

 sylvania have constantly held in requisition for these im- 

 portant objects. These resources consist in banking 

 funds, or aids drawn from them in the^cts of creation — 

 in the taxation of special objects — in a State Lottery^ ar- 

 ranged as a permanent source of annual income, applica- 

 ble to these destinations. We are apprised that objec- 

 tions are entertained against the latter provision. W^e, 

 however, humbly conceive, that the course of events, 

 furnishing so many precedents of utility, render the ob- 

 jections abortive and powerless. 'J'hc use of this last 

 provision has become not only expedient, but necessary 

 to the gejieral v/elfare. Policy requires its adoption, to 

 exclude the mischiefs, attributable to the measure, which 

 approach from abroad, and indirectly infuse the influence 

 tl'.at has been charged on the direct legal provision. We 

 look to the future for a nioi'e respectable estimate of the 

 policy u inch sliould govern a great State. We confident- 

 ly expect to see a liberal and cheering policy prevailing o- 

 ver narrow, depressing and cheerless conceptions, found- 

 ed on objections long since consigned, by events, to the 

 repository of little objects, whose little, transient hour of 

 popularity has become extinct. J^^(iy ^fc" not he permitted 



