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Show THE ANNUAL AGONY. Ctiftom, if not law, demands that at the opening of each session of a legislative body in ary part of these United Suites, where that Legislature represents a Territory, a State, r the country at largo, the concentrated essence es-sence of wisdom which high official position always give3 a man must be uncorked and poured forth in streams of unadulterated edification to a v thirsty world. Hence we have an nual messages coming from tho Pre-bident Pre-bident ot the United States, and from the gubernatorial towers of the thirty-seven thirty-seven Slates ; but Territories are only required to bear the force of tho intellectual in-tellectual torrent biennially. Happy Territerics ! Great people are those of the States who can endure the annual agony ! We give this morning the Message of his Excellency, Governor Woods. Wc have read worse, though it would have been btttcr had there been a little more pains taken in its preparation. prepara-tion. It has some recommendations one that it is no longer; and some objectionable features that wo shall take pleasure in referring to ere the Spring flowers disclose their loveliness where now the cold snow robes the earth. |