The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-12-03
CAROLINA SPARTAN.
MESSAGE OF
GOV. r. F. w, ALLSTON,
To THE

MESSAGE OF
GOV. r. F. w, ALLSTON,
TO THE
Senate and House of Representatives.
DELIVERED NOVEMBER %, 1857.
ExEoUr1vE DEPARTMENT, COLUMBIA, S. c.,
NOVEMBER %, 1857.
Feltow Citizens of tie Senate and House of
Representatives.:
Assembling as you do for the public ser.
vice from every election District in the
State, representing all professions and oc.
cupations, you bear with you, doubtless, a
grateful sense of the present blessings eu-
joyed by our citizens of health and bounti.
full harvests, and will cheerfully unite with
me in aspirations of praise to the Almighty
Power, by whom alone they are bestowed.
In view of all the circumstances bv which
we are surrounded, our people cannot have
too scrupuous regard to individual in.
tegrity, nor can we too strictly guard
against the failings which peculiarly beset
US, assured that practical life, which best
illustrates due sense of duty TO God and
our neighbor, constitutes the most accepta
BILE service to him who orders the affairs Of
men, and whose eyes are upon us all.
1t must needs be that sickness and death
visit overy community, striking down the
youthful and aged, the vigorous and active,
as well as the ntirm. II we have seen the
energetic minds. industrious powers and
generous impulses of friends aud public
servants stled in death, we have left TO US
the iuestimablc satisfaction of knowing that
they met their fate with courage in the path
Of duty. Since your last session, death has
deprived the delegation TO Congress from
this State Of two valued members. In the
month of February, the Hon. Preston S.
Brooks, while in the midst of active public
duty, engaged in a course of usefulness and
honor, and winning by his manly conduct
and sterling worth, the confidence and admi.
ration Of members. was removed to another
sphere. The only official inlimaton had
of Mr.. Brooks death, was communicated on
tue 25,h Of March by one of our Senators,
the late Judge Butler. Within two months
from that date, he, too, WAS laid in the 81.
lent grave, beside his gallant relative and
friend. Eycitable and conscientious As he
was, the labors of the last Congress had
proved too much for him. Honorable and
fair in dispatching busness-vigiant and
faithful in his peculiar trust-diligent, spir-
tied, and able in discharging it, his nervous
sensibi,ies were too highly wrought upon,
and the tension of his mental energies too
incessant TO be longer endured by the ply
sical frame. Soon after reaching the Gov
eted quiet of his own home, he sank into
the arms Of death, universally regretted bv
bis associates in life, mourned and amented
by his constituents-the people of this
State.
The vacancy created in the Fourth Con-
gressional District, has been filled bv the
election of Gen. Milledge l.. Bonham, of
Edgetield, who was commissioned in May
last.
In place Of the Hon. A. p. Butler, have
made no temporary appointment. You will
plying the vacancy by joint ballot Of both
Houses without delay, in order that the new
Senator may be enabled to take his seat in
the next Congress at an early day of ne
session. There is yet 10 be mentioned the
name of another venerable citizen, once in
tmVtely and prominently associated with
the Government of both the State and the
United States, whose loss we deplore, and
To whose brilliant career of early service
may be permitted 10 alude. Erect and
commanding in stature, up to the day of his
last illness, grave and dignilied in deport-
ment, wise in council, firm, resolute, and
faithful in the practice Of his profession and
the duties Of life, such was Langdon Cheves.
Successful IN life. full of honors, and pros.
trate only under the weight Of years, he has
been laid in the grave by grateful country
men and weeping friends. with all the SOL
emnties and respectful obseryances due to
such an occasion. lIo was the last oil the
distinguished trio, who, by their ability, in
iegrity, and courage rendered the South
Carolina Delegation in Congress, during the
war of 1912, so distinguished and intluen-
tial. Together they abored nobIy and eff.
ciently in those days OF fearful excitement
and trying difficulty, for the welfare and
honor OF their country. The Navy. which |
it was MIR. Cheves' peculiar care to develope |
and cherish the Navy, bearing its flag and
leaving its name triumphant upon every
sea, taught tho proud foe lesson of Justice,
to recognise America as an equal among
the nations OF the earth The war honora. |
bly, closed and peace establishment settled.
he retired from the Speakers chair to serve
his State in the judiciary Department, until
called on by President Monroe to admins.
ter the Bank OF Che United States. Absent
ten years, he returned IN 1929 to the quiet
of his native hills, procihimiugtp the South
the danger which be had peFesi3elf aar. off,
with his distinguish colpsI,
peer in the tendency of Federal LegisIxfss6ijts:
Beyond occasional counsel, he declined a4f
in public life, until the year
1850. Then, at tho age of seventy.four. bo