Viewed as an executive officer in the courts of his State. a youthful. fearless. incorruptible solicitor. a wholesome terror to evildoers. as wellas an assured protection to the innocent. maintaining and vindicating the supremacy of her laws against all violators. he has left an example worthy of emulation. Or as a junior representative in the Legislative Assembly of his State. his modest and unassuming yet dutiful and studious career as such was marked with a discretion and ability that presaged his after efficiency and greatness. Or as the chief executive of his State. called thereto by the compelling voice of his people at a time when she was stranded in theshalows of bankrnptcy. when she was dismantled and disfigured by a most profligate if not corrupt administration of her afisirs. when lawlessness and disorder were rife in her midst. when life. liberty. and property were not vouchsafed by the strong arm of the law. when schisms. feuds. and bickerings were on the daily increase: when her treasury was exhausted and her credit unavailing. when her taxes were so onerous as to paralyze the efforts of her languishing industries. when the property of her people was without sale value by reason of the presence of seeming anarchy. when she was mostilagrantly misrepresented by those professing to be her guardians. -when emigration to her borders was inhibited by the deadly upas pervading her atmosphere. when the hopes of her bravest hearts were in the embers of extinguishment . and when her people were insulted and disfranchised by a pretended constitution unknown to and tinprescribed by them. imposed upon them by a swarm of vampires who were preying upon her vitals with vulturous greedat such a time. in the midss of such surroundings. this wonderful. magical. unexcelled �eomndiler assumed the charge of her destiny. and with a spirit. nerve. situ d voion that gave assurance at once of a vital and wholesome .ie ripe in her affairs. hI tIh short space of four years lie transferred her to her present must excellent chitf executive repaired and refitted from hull to the jithuilu of tier masthead. mving nmjesticall. under full sail. in the alsear. deep waters defined as her track. by the consummate skill of an ucknowledged navigator. with her treasury replenished. her credit restored. with her people relieved of overburdened taxation. and the hum of industry revitalized throughout her limits . with their hopes rekindled. their spirits reanimated. and their resolutions reresolved. with law and order reigning supreme throughout her borders. and schisms. feuds. and biekerings dissipated and obliviated. with life. liberty. and property secured beyond a peril. and peace. plenty. and growing prosperity the daily blessing of her people. with a substantial value restored to her property and emigrants coming into her borders from all points.of the land. And as a further testimonial of the devotion of the American peopleto that deathless principle. so essential to the existence of liberty. avowing that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. she now enjoys the benefaction of a constitution adopted by her own people. in whose broad. clear. and welldefined ordinations are to be found the amplest and fullest guarantees of all the rights. privileges. and immunities that belong or attach to freemen and citizens under our unequaled republican form of government. Should I. then. not say that he has left a model administration of her affairs that may be wisely followed by his successors 7 Her people with united voice exclaim. in the language of one of her gifted poets: All praise. all honor to her faithful son.
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