4 ity of our material pursuits and interests ; for the general prevalence of health ; for our comfortable homes ; for the endearment and treasures of domestic life ; for the pleasures and advantages of good neighborhood and of intelligent and well-ordered society ; for our institutions of education, and of benevolence and religion ; for freedom from the desolations of war within our own territory ; for the fervent patriotism, nationality of sentiment, and unity of purpose and effort which have characterized the people of our State, leading thousands of its citizens to go forth voluntarily and cheerfully to fight the battles of the Republic, and mothers and daughters to give up to country the dearest objects of their affections ; for the devotion to country so generally manifested by the loyal people of the Union ; for the good order, the steadiness and faithfulness of purpose, and obedience to authority and to law, which have universally prevailed, and been distinctive and striking features in the character and conduct of the free society of the loyal States amidst the purturbations and trials of the present war, and under a government so mild in its restraints as scarcely to be felt by the governed." Every heart must feel that each specification thus made claims thanks to Him whose gift it is. But the very love of country of which the Governor speaks, the patriotism which has character-
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