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Maine Bicentennial

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Governor's Message : Gentlemen Of The Senate And The House Of Representatives, Albion K. Parris Jan 1823

Governor's Message : Gentlemen Of The Senate And The House Of Representatives, Albion K. Parris

Maine Bicentennial

January 1823 State of the State address by Albion Keith Parris, Maine's 5th Governor (1822-1827), to the state Legislature:

“IN entering upon the duties of the several stations to which we have been respectively elected, we cannot be unmindful of our dependence upon that source of wisdom, to which all men, more especially those entrusted with the exercise of important political powers, should look for direction and support. To that Being we have abundant reason to be grateful, which the transactions of this occasion cannot fail of bringing distinctly to our consideration. Our State has been blessed with the enjoyment …