The North-Carolinian., 1850-12-07
SOUTH CAROLINA-Go Gorernor's Message

SOUTH CAROLINA.-G Gorernor's Message.
The public debt of the State is little over
two millions. The income of the State last year
by taxes, SC, was little over $600,000.
Gov. Seabrook recommends, &C in view o. the
present aid future aspect of affairs, l am
warranted in recommending the establishment
of depots for military stores and instruments OF
war at Anderson Court House, Spartanburg and
Marion Court Houses''
Over 10000 white persons in the State cannot
read and write and yet nearly one- fourth of the
income of the State from taxes, says the Gov
ernor, is expended for public schools.
A revisal of the criminal code of the State to
conform more to the spirit of the age, is urgent
ly recommended.
The legal rate of interest is now per cent.
The Governor recomme nds that it be made per
cent.
In accordance with resolution of the last
Legislature, the Governor has purchased large
number of implements of war. All the most
vul nerable points in the State have been strength
ened, and it is recommended that the artillery
companies of Charleston be furnished with addi-
tional batteries. Recommends the purchase Of
additional field pieces
The Governor then gets the State rights
subject The important part of his remarks on
this subject we quote as follows:
ercise of the power Of selfprotecti ton,
which in the hour of unsuspecting conf
deuce, we surrende red to foreign hands.
We must re-organise our political system
on some surer and safer basis. There
is no power, moral or physical, that
Can prevent it. The event is indissolubly
linked with its cause. and fixed as destiny.
In the admonitOry language OF our lament
ed statesman, "the worst calamity that
could befall us would be to lose our indie
pendence, and to sink down into a state OF
acknowledged inferiority. depending for
security on forbearance, and not on our ca
pacity and disposition to defend ourselves" F"
| have not attempted to discuss the ques-
ton of secession. The right of a State to
with draw from the Union, results from the
nature ant princi pies of the Constitutional
Compact, to which the States are sovereign
parties. While adhering faithfully to the
remedy of joint State action for redress OF
common grievances, beseech you to re-
member, that no COnIunCture OF events
ought to induce US to abandon the right ot
deciding ultimately on our own destiny.
In recommending. as | now do, that $.
Carolina should interpose her sovereignty
in order to protect her citizens, and that
by corporation with her aggrieved sister
States, she may be enabled to aid in avert
ing the doom which impends over the civil
institutions Of the South, it is fit and prop
er that as Commonwealth, we should, at
an early day, to be designated by you, I'M
plure the God of our fathers for the pardon
-four manlfoit. transgressons, and invoke
his protection and guidance in this our day
of trouble aud affliction, that he would gra
ciousiy vouch- safe to enlighten the minds
Of our Federal rulers, the North and ITS
citizens. and direct them in the way of
truth, of reason, and of justice, and pre-
serve a once happy political family from
the unspeakable horrors of civil strife"