The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-12-01
ITO be Continued
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
COLUMBIA, Nov. %, 1852.
Gentlemen Of the Senate


to your attention, permit me earnestly to
request that you will join me in rendering
heartfelt thanks and praise to Almighty
God, Tor the many and undeservcd mercies
bestowed upon us as people during the
past year. Although some portion OF our
State has trembled beneath the scourge of
the "Pestilence which walketh in dark
ness and wasteth by monday yet we
have cause for thanktulness that we have
been permitted to enjoy, in other portions.
more than a usual 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
desolating effects were not felt, rich and
abundant harvest will reward the labor of
the husbandman.
Terrible has been the blow to the pros
penty OF our State by the destruction of
crops and bridges on our water-courses.
and as deeply as we sympatlize with
those OF our telow-citizens who have sui.
fered, yet we are bound to bow submis-
sively to the affecting rod of our Heaven
ly Father, and render to Him the HOMAGE
OF grateful hearts for whatever mercies
lie has seen fit, in His wisdom and rood
ness, to vouchsafe to us, His denenJan,
creatures.
1t gives me Measure 70 ;ntor, 4,
the same fiourisbino cond;,;nn ou 'lae n:s
fcrent institutions Of Iearn;n% " no,;"aS G"a u ~
my last Annual MESSAGE st;II noo,;,raa ~
The South Carolina EnlIene MI a."
judcious and energetic man aoono,. ~ nf
its able President. is still nrooress;no, =, -,
onward course of nsef;,Iness | ~ IL ~ Us
ready able and efficient S,SSSs ~ lne p,ofa. a.
sors, has been added d,i<;lI -, - aar
the services of DIR. Rey,,S, ;sh -,
character, devoted piety ~ - - ,.,:s''
dition, amply qualify r. <Eiu o. SSfsI.,sl,y
he ha4lnoi& -
1 Iefysf,rs, fiilezl =. y. -, h a,;,Ia.l
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to stand as cpdlirln8 n,on,i,nei,ts az lie
wisdom and tin,nitieeiie iee s,f taa State. IN
establishing soS eisliphteneSl a blcn of alo.
mosynary education. The students n. tLa
Citadel were suspended durinc a nart I 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 encampinr
in some healthy region, in case this eni.
demic should again visit the citv. The
addition to the Arsenal, ordered bv the
last Legislature, is completed, and. with
the former building, will be of sufficient
capacity to accommodate all the Fourth
z Class, (say from ninety to one hundred1
The last Legislature authorized the
Trustees of the South Carolina Colleoe to
build Chapel provided thew did not call
,npon it for more than $4,000. This
building, so much needed, has been con-
tracted for by the Trustees at 800. 900.
and will be of sufficient size to accommo,
date 1000 persons. The Trustees have
paid "a, 900, (the first instalment,) out of
the Tuition Fund, and have contracted
to pay $4,000 after the adjournment of
the Legislature, and the balance when
the building is completed. You will per-
ceiye from this statement that the Legisla-
ture will be only called upon for the ? sum
which it authorised the Trustees to use
AS no appropriation was made for this
purpose aud as the Trustees acting under
the authority given them by the Iegisla.
ture, nave contracted for the payment of
that sum after your adjournment, recon-
mend that at the present Session you
make an appropriation to meet this call.
Before leave the subject of these your
cherished institutions of learning, the one
which has given to your history some of
lts brightest names, and the other, which,
although but in its infancy, begins to show
lts practical utility, by giving 10 the State
the services of well educated gentlemen,
who. but for its munifcence, might have
groVelIed for ever in obscurity--permit