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Message from the Governor of Georgia.

Milledgeville, Nov. 7.
--The Governor's Message was read on yesterday, and is published this morning.

The Governor refers to the early history of the Union, and advocates the doctrine of State rights. He deprecates the power conred on the President to accept State troops without the intervention of the Governor of a State, and pronounces the act unconstitutional and opposed to State rights. He says that Georgia has now fifty regiments in the field, forty of which are State troops, and ten independent regiments.

He recommends the issue of Treasury notes by the State, and also, recommends an advance to the planters of two-thirds of the value of the cotton crop of the State, on certain conditions. He advices there-enactment of the stay law, and alludes to the unpatriotic speculations of some dealers in articles of prime necessity, and asks that authority may be vested in the Governor to allow him to seize, for the use of the troops, such provisions as may be necessary for them, the State paying such reasonable compensation as be fixed by competent valuing agents.

He recommends that the State shall pay the war tax, and also that the State shall subscribe a liberal sum to the direct European steam company now formed, or forming, in Savannah.

He closes his Message with reflections on our competency for self-government.

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