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DELAWARE COUNTY. 295 protect the heart from the eye of Him who sees its thoughts and intents. For the sake of the character of our State and of our people, as well as for the peace and prosperity and harmony of so- ciety, I earnestly hope the day may not be distant, when I may be called upon to discharge another and a far more pleas- ant duty, under a provision of the same law under which I now act, by revoking this proclamation. ^' Yet the law must be enforced. Our institutions must be preserved. Anarchy and violence must be prevented. The lives of our citizens must be protected, and murder must be punished. And when that portion of our citizens who, now transported by passion and led away by singular delusions, are ready to strike down the law and its ministers, shall become convinced that a different course is alike the part of wisdom and of duty, and shall again submit themselves to the laws of the State, then, and not before, can I expect to be permitted to perform that more pleasing duty. " In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Privy Seal of the State. Witness my hand, at the city of [l. s.] Albany, this twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. "SILAS WRiaHT. The same day the proclamation of Gov. Wright, was re- ceived by mail in Delhi, Adjutant General Farrington, with instructions to superintend the organization of an armed force, also arrived from his residence in Oswego. The same evening two companies of volunteers were formed, elected their offi- cers, reported themselves to the Adjutant General, and were formed into a separate battalion of light infantry, Benjamin T. Cook of Franklin, was elected captain of the first company,