Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-12-07

Il situation better adapted to Iuv-
view. When such building has been made
to progress towards completion, the State
can be refunded to the extent Of Il portion
of its outlay by the sale of the present Asy-
lam property, which is valuable, and becom.
ing more 50 daily, with the increase III the
value Of real estate in the town.
At your last session an appropriation oi
Fifty Thousand Dollars was made for the
continuation of the construction of the new
Capitol, and during the past year the work
has progressed to an extent commensurate
with the amount appropriated The plans
have all been perfected by the skill Of
competent architect, who has also the su-
peryisun with the Commission Of the whole
work. Ample and convenient arrangements
are made rol all the departments OF the State
Government, and the building. when COM
pleted, will be one of the most elegant,
commodious and desirable in the Union.-
Every improvement which modern skill has
devised has been Incorporated in the plans.
The granite Of which it is constructed IS
found in great abundance convenient to the
work. Ii completed upon the plans already
determined upon, Tat cost in my Judgment
by no means unreasonable,) this editice will
be fresh in its massive strength and beauty
when many generations shall have passed
away, and will remain for ages monument
of your taste, State pride, aud liberaity. |
recommend such liberal appropriations as
will warrant all active ,.'d energetic prose-
cution of the work, and insure its e"'y com.
pletion.
At the last session of the Legislature, the
Governor, in connection with the Attorney
General, was directed to take such steps to
protect the rights and jurisdiction of South
Carolina, in the controversy now pending
between Georgia and this State, upon the
subject Of boundary, as they might deem
necessary. In conformity with these III.
structions, the Attorney General addressed Il
full and able argument to his Exce!lency
the Governor OF Georgia, in reply to COM
munication from him to my immediate pre-
decessor, in which the rights of this State to
the thread of the stream of the Savannah
| kiVerj lO!lOWlhS ihe ll'"sI wv ,iis'
as the true boundary between the States are are
clearly set forth. am now confirmed III
the opinion of the equity of this view OF the
case, since by examining certified copy OF
the original charter of 1882, and other re.
cords among the archives Of this State
find the express language which this State
claims to have been used in the original
charter, and under which our title is urged
This State has right to rely upon the
following as conclusive in the controversy
lst, the words OF the Georgia charter ot
1882, as given by Wlitaker's Report in
1876 and half century later by Watkins
and a copy of the original charter, certified
by the Lord Mayor Of London, and now
among the archives of this State; I'd, the
convention of Beaufort in 1887; Sd, the
Constitution Of Georgia in 1877, defining
her own boundaries.
perceive by the late Message Of His Elk
cellency Governor Cobb, that he recommend
to the Legislature of Georgia to submit th'
questions Of boundary betwceu the States fo