he expressed his satisfaction, "that the popular branch of
the Legislature had seen fit thus promptly to respond to this
portion of his message," adding that "the subject is one of
great magnitude in every point of view, affecting most deeply
the honor of the State, as well as the peace and good order
of society, and unquestionably demands at your hands, the
most rigid and thorough examination."

This letter, which the committee presume from seeing it
published, without their consent or agency, immediately
after its date in several of the newspapers of the State, is in-
tended by the Governor as a supplement to his message,
proper to be communicated to the people, contains some im-
portant explanations of the scope and design of its author in
the revelations of the message touching the alarm he had
expressed for the safety of the State, and very happily
relieves the committee, as it has no doubt relieved the House,
of much of the anxiety which suggested the investigation.
It has in equal degree lightened the labor of the task with
which the committee is charged.

It now appears that the Governor was misunderstood in
the intimations he had given regarding his discovery of secret as-
sociations, that the House had been unnecessarily alarmed by sup-
posing that these associations were hatching dangerous plots, of
which only some obscure manifestations had escaped from con-
cealment and found their way to the notice of the Executive: and
that the single cause of the Governor's apprehensions has
been traced by him to the proceedings of a large political party,
transacted in a National Council held in the city of Philadelphia
in the month of June last. It also appears that the secrets which
have contributed to the Executive's disquiet are the political doc-
trines avowed in a paper called the Platform of that Party, which
has been published in a thousand newspapers and innumerable
hand-bills, pamphlets and books, and is still undergoing daily
republication with a view to the widest possible announcement
throughout the United States.

The Governor does not intimate that he has discovered or
believes that the party to which he refers, has adopted, or ac-
knowledges, or acts upon any other principles or doctrines than
those set forth in the platform. Indeed, so far from intimating