Excerpt from Message of His Excellency Levi Lincoln: Communicated to the Two Branches of the Legislature, January 2, 1828 Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: Having re-assembled for the dispatch of public business in the Legislative Department of the Government, your attention will naturally be first directed to those subjects which were presented for consideration, at the commencement of the political year, and to the measures which were then postponed, to await this more convenient opportunity for mature discussion, and a deliberate and judicious disposition. The present time is preeminently favorable to a faithful and successful discharge of official obligations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.