Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-15
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR COBB.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR COBB.
Our readers have been already informed of the
installation of the Hon. HOWELL ObBB as Governor
of the State Of Georgia on Wednesday of last week.
| We to-day make room for his interesting Address
on the occasion, as follows:
Senator's and Representatives. In obedience to the popu-
voice Of the appear before you to-day to assume
the duties of the Executive chair. We have en called
gentlemen, respective sta ions ntsrng period
in the history Of State. Ia oil the departments Of life
which stamp the impress Of progress and grestss upon
people, Georgia occupies eminent position smg her
States of the Republic In agriculture that nobt pursuit of
civilized man, she yields the palm of supeor none.
Endowed by Providence with sslubsious cna and fer
tile soil under the culture of her enterprsng cens she
forth the generous rival Of the foremost amongst her
successful and fourishng sisters In manufactus and the
mechanical arts State presents picture whicer proud
may contemplate with pleasure and gtifcation
The youngest among may remember the im when the
walls of the first factory raised in Stae and now
in every section Of it be the daily nc9asng evil
dences Of the success which has attended the e Of
energetic citizens in the manufacture of the great American
saple The progress have made for the last Nv years n
this and other branches of manufacture clearly ehadows
the period far distant in the future when shs win rank
among the most successful Of the manufacturing Safes the
Union. 6fa
Nor has Providence been less generous to usn the be-
stowa Of hose natural advantages which constu the basis
Of commercial greatness. Sa.tssta
Amidst all the evidences that mark the spirit Of
people, should Geogians look with nre ers
cation than to those which characterize tho energy and efforts
Of her principal seaport Linked and bound as are
the different sections of State by her syse of internal
improvements, begin TO feel truly aed Justly the
identity Of interest and feeling which should @ between
mountains and seaboard II has made usneghbors in
distance, should make neghbos in interest and sang
Ia contemplating these results from railroad enterprises
almost exclusive work Of individual so and as capital
The State road constitutes the only exception this general
remark This work in its origin promise great adva
in of
interesting section of country though which passes and
forming the important link connecting the Western waters
with the Atlantic coast In the realization Of these ancpa
tons find ample compensation for the labor and capital
which have been invested in this important enterprise. 1t
depends great upon the fostering care,
shened Judgment and unloading 6mness Of the represen
taves Of the people TO render it permanent monument Of
the wisdom and forecast of its patriotic projectors Whilst
the attention Of people hashus been directed with charac
terisc energy these Of national wealth. they have
been unmindul of that important and paramount duty
the education of their and daughters II Is indeed
grateful spectacle witness throughout the State the nceas
ing interest manifested this interesting and important SUBJ
ect. In free Government like ors where all power ema
mates from the people, cannot tto highly estimate the inn
of preserving throughout he land pure hearts and
enlightened minds. Those who ,hal place it within the
power Of every and daughter Of Georgia to receive the
benefit of plain and practical edGcaon will be justly re-
gaded among the nobest benefaco of the State Let our
united be directed under the blessing Of Providence
the contamination of this great decthe education Of
the hearts and minds OF the people.
To our hands gentlemen for the lime being, has
fdng people committed various and important interests
of the State. We should enter upon duties with con-
sciousness Of the responsibility have assumed and de-
termination discharge them that there may exist in the
public mind just to regret the trust that has been
reposed in Nor gentlemen, is the present less inter-
estng period when considered in reference to federal
aons Our Federal Government is passing through an
ordeal which may justly be regarded Is The ssyeres test
to which has been subjected In the issue is involved
only peace and happiness but the solution of
that haco If
of the ables and pusest who have vedthe capa
city Of man for self government.
At the commencement Of the last Congress the country
convused with bitter sectional controversy growing
out of the institution of slavery exists in the Southern
States The abest heads appalled, With the magnitude
the danger that threatened the integrity Of the republic,
and the souest hearts ered under the weight Of response
by II would be Inappropriate to this occasion to review
the history Of that angry and threatening controversy
would necessarily refresh your with many Of ito
painful reflections but there lessons and admonitons to
be from it's consideration which cannot be too deeply
and forcby impressed upon the public mind Of the country
This threatening issue ultimately brought to close in
National Legislature by the adoption of series Of
familiarly known to the country the Compromise
That Compromise based upon two important principles
the first recognised the great American doctrine of the right
of every people, in the organization Of their State Govern
ment to determine for themselves whether not they
would have the institution Of slavery part Of their social
upon which the whole fabric of American institutions
thus repudiang that other doctrine justly odious the
people Of the South, Of the right and duty Of Congress
reject Slate applying for admission into the Union because
her Constitution tolerated the institution Of slavery The
other cardinal principle Of the Compromise recognises the
constitutional obligation to deliver up fugitive slaves when
they may escape into the nom slavehodng Sates-a duy
expressly imposed by the letter of the Constitution and the
enforcement Of hich essential to the pernanence of the
republic. After the adoption Of this adjustment by Congress-
circumstances imposed upon the people Of Georgia the i'm
poran duty of pronouncing the first authoritative Judgment
upon it. t7ag eE8 basGA4haaa @di 81 HastW lHll6Aa
To onr action the ewes of the whole country were direct
ed and our felow-czens every where looked to
that Georgia called upon speak, She spoke
and her voice breahed mingled spirit Of ardent devotion to
the Union and of patriotic warning to its Northern friends
Looking The past and considering the rights and interests
that had been involved in the contest the dangers and diff
cules which had surrounded the couny and the important
principles upon which the final action Of the Government
based she soemny declared her determination TO stand to
and abide by the Compromise permanent and final settle
men Of this dangerous and vital issue; its naty and faith
fu enforcement in all s parts constituting essential elements
commend it tothe favor and support Of herself and her
ter States Of the South Looking the future, with refer
the Of threatened aggression which had been
freely BY portion of the people Of the NORTH
and regarding the adoption Of those against which
she raised her warning in the fourth resolution OF her
Convention insidons blows aimed her most vital in
teests she has calmly but firmly said to this maddened
spirit Of fanaticism thus far shalt thou CO. and further
Her position taken with camness n 850 has been
reafrmed with delberaton in 1851 and renew the
pledge Of my hearty cooperation in maintaining with firm
and decision Georgia has thus placed herself upon
broad national and patriotic PLATFORM and invites her sister
States Of the Union stand by her in the preservation Of
happest and freest Government upon these