Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-11-26
rGOvEROR'S MESSAGE.

gs,7 t7.7'1 - COLUMBIA, Nov. 23, 1852.
Gentlemen Of the, Senate
80 ass 50 and House of Representatives:
= Another year has rolled round, and brought
the day when, as Representatives Of the people,
! you have assembled together to deliberate upon
5the affairs of the Commonwealth. And before
1 proceed to treat Of the subjects which, for the
good Of our State, l may deem proper to bring
to your attention, permit me earnestly to request
that you will join me in rendering heartfelt
thanks and praise to Almighty God, for the many
Z and undeserved mercies bestowed upon us as a
people during the past year. Although some
portion of our State has trembled beneath the
sscourge of the aPestilence which walketh in
Z darkness and wasteth by monday" yet we have
cause for thankfulness that we have been permit
ted to enjoy, in other portions, more than a usu
n al degree of health; and although we have been
called upon to mourn the devastation and ruin
which marked the tracks of the late disastrous
and unprecedented flood, yet wherever its desc
lating effects were not felt, rich and abundant
harvest will reward the labor of the husbandman.
81 Terrible has been the blow to the prosperity Of
our State by the destruction Of crops and bridges
on our watercourses and as deeply as we sym
pathize withthose of our fellow-citizens who have
suffered, yet'we are bound to bow submssively
to the affecting rod of our Heavenly Father, and
render to Him the homage of grateful hearts for
whatever mercies He has seen fit, in Ills wisdom
/ and goodness, to vouehsafe to US, His dependant
: creatures. s@s eet's s'ssss,' -
2 It gives me pleasure to inform you that the
aaEasjH feaAti4e HtdSsd IA asf 4i Ht
Message, still continues. The South Carolina
College, under the judicious and energetic man.
agement of its able President, is still progressing
in its onward course of usefulness. To the al
ready able and efficient corps Of Professors, has
been added during the past year the services of
DR. Reynolds, whose high character, devoted p-
ETY., and elegant erudition, amply qualify for the
exalted station to which he has been called, and
which he has thus far filled with honor to him
sell, and usefulness to the Institution.
The Military Academies still give evidence o.
increasing usefulness, and bid fair to stand as en-
during monuments of the wisdom and munif
cence Of the Stste in establishing so enlightened
= q plen of elemosynary education. The students
ssat the Citadel were suspended during part of
the past summer and fall in consequence of the
prevalence of yellow fever; but in future steps
: will be taken to prevent the disbanding of the
. Corps by encamping in some healthy region, IN
case this epidemic should again visit the city,
The addition to the Arsenal, ordered by the last
Legislature, is completed, and, with the former
building, viii be ofsufficient capacity to accom-
.smodate alhthe Fourth Glass, (say from ninety to
one hundred
The last Legislature authorized the Trustees
Nff ho outb l,,;l al
provided they did not call upon it for more than
$4,000. This building, SO much needed, has
been contracted for by the Trustees at $22, 900,
and will be of sufficient size to accommodate
:, 1900 persons. The Trustees have paid $4,000,
1.-THE first instalment,) out of the Tuition Fund,
and have contracted to pay $4,000 after the ad-
journment Of the Legislature and the balance
when the building is completed. You will per-
s ceive from this statement that the Legislature
will be orly called upon for the sum which it au-
thorsed the Trustees to use. AS no appropria-
tion was made for this purpose and as the Trus.
tees acting under the authority given them by
the Legislature, have contracted for the payment
of that sum after your adjournment, | recon-
mend that at the present Session you make a
appropriation to NEE: this CALL
Before leave the subject Of these your cher
ished Institutions of learning the one which ha.
given to your history some Of its brightest names
and the other, which, although but in its infan
cy, begins to show its practical utility, by giving
to the State the services of well educated gentle
men, who, but for its munifcence, might have
grovelled for ever in obscurity-perlnit Inc ear
nestly to invoke for them continuance of youl
care and liberality.
1 have endeavored, during the past summer
to inform myself thoroughly upon the subject O
our Free School System, but from the want o
interest generally manifested, have been able te
collect but little information. There seems tc
be general belief that it works badly, except ir
large cities, Conducted as they are in the coun
try, do not hesitate to pronounce it an almost
useless expenditure of the public fund yet l am
far from being willing to recommend a discon
tnuance ofthe appropriation. The object ofex
tending the blessings Of education to the poor is
oJust and noble one to be abandoned. In
some of the older States, more densely popula
ted than our own, beneficial results have been