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strong and sure foundation, and that she will now find many friends better
qualified than myself who will take care of her interests, the motive to
which I have alluded as having actuated me in holding office, is no longer
operative, and in retiring now to private life, I but indulge my individual
wishes, and I lay down the honors and the cares of the Presidency with
infinitely more of personal gratification than I assumed them. The
confidence and the favors which the partiality of my fellow citizens has
bestowed upon me, merits and receives my gratitude and my heartfelt
thanks. Whatever injustice may have been done me, in moments of
excitement, I indulge the belief that when correct information is dis-
seminated in regard to my whole course, the public mind will settle down
into proper conclusions, and that my fellow citizens will then judge me
rightly. At least, I have the approbation of my own conscience, a reward
in itself above all price, and repose upon the assured belief that history
and posterity will do me no wrong.
I am happy to congratulate you, gentlemen upon the universally
prosperous condition of our country at the present time. Our foreign
relations have all been closed in a manner satisfactory, I believe, to all
the governments with which we have had intercourse. The frontier is
quiet and secure, and the husbandman sows and reaps his fields in peace.
Industry and enterprise have received new guaranties and a new impulse
-a market is found at home for nearly every thing our citizens have
to dispose of, and a large and very desirable immigration to the country
is now taking place. The expenses of the government since I have been
in office, have all been paid in an undepreciated currency-a very con-
siderable amount of debt incurred by previous administrations has been
paid off, and a surplus of available means sufficient to defray the expenses
of the government, economically administered, for the next two years, at
least, is left at the disposition of the State; and I venture the belief
that, without resort to taxation, the public domain, if properly husbanded
and disposed of, will raise a fund sufficient to liquidate the entire national
debt upon equitable principles, besides providing for the future support
of the State government, a system of common schools and other institutions
for the intellectual, moral and religious improvement of the rising gen-
eration. With such a population as Texas possesses, characterized as it
is with great intelligence and enterprize, and with such elements of
prosperity as she now possesses a genial climate and a fertile soil, it
will be her own fault if she does not reach an importance and a social
elevation, not surpassed by any community on earth.
Detailed reports from all the different departments and bureaux, show-
ing the transactions of the government since the last annual meeting of
Congress, are made out and will be handed to His Excellency the Governor,
for transmission in due time to your honorable bodies. The information
which these contain will show the manner in which the public affairs
have been conducted since I came into office, and constitute in part the
neessary data upon which to predicate your future action. It does not
come within the province of my appropriate duty to make any suggestions
or recommend any measures for your consideration. This task now belongs
to another, and will, I am well satisfied, be discharged with zeal, faith-
fulness and ability. I may, however, express the fervent hope which I
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