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


MESSAGE OF
GOV. R. F. w, ALLSTON,
Senate and House of Representatives.
DELIVERED NOVEMBER "a, 1857.
ExEoUTIvE DEPARTMENT., COLUMBIA, S. c.,
% NOVEMBER %, 1857. ~
Feilop 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-
crpations, you bear with you, doubtless, a
grateful sense of the present blessings en-
,joyed by our citizens of health and bounti.
ful 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 by which
We are surrounded, our people cannot have
too scrupulous 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 every community, striking down the
youthful aud aged, the vigorous and active,
as we'll az the intirm. If we have seen the
energetic minds. industrious powers and
generous impulses of friends and public
servants stilled in death, we have left TO US
the inestimable 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 inIimation hal
OF Mr.. Brooks death, WAS communicated on
the 25ih 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. Excitable and conscientious as he
was, the labors of the last Congress had
proved too much for him. Honorable and
fair in dispatchng busness-vigilant and
faithful in his peculiar trust-dihgent, spir-
tied, and able in discharging it, his nervous
sensibilites were too highly wrought upon,
and the tension of his mental euergies too
incessant to be longer endured by The ply
sical frame. Soon after reaching the COW
eted quiet of his own home, he sank into
the arms OF death, universally regretted by
his associates in life, mourned and lamented
by his constituents-the people of this
State.
The vacancy created in the Fourth Con-
gressional District, has been filed bv the
election of Gen. Miledge l.. Bonham, of
Edgeheld, who was commissioned in May
last.
In place Of the Hon. A. p. Butler, have
made no temporary appointment. You will
doubtless appreciate the importance of sup.
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 the
session. There is yet to be mentioned the
name OF another venerable citizen, once in
tmatsly 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 TO allude. Erect and
commanding in stature, up to the day of his
last illness, grave and dignifed in deport-
ment, wise in council, firm, resolute, and
faithful in the practice of his profession and
the duties Of life, such was Langdon Cheyes.
Successful IN lie, 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
emnities and respectful observances due to
such an occasion. lIo was the last of the
distinguished trio, who by their ability, in
iegrty, and courage rendered the South
Carolina Delegation in Congress, during tho
war of 1912, so distinguished and influen-
tial. Together they labored 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 Mr.. Cheves' peculiar care to deyelope
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 ofthesU United States. Absent
ten years, he returnss - 3a22 to the quiet
of his native hills, prdchl - the South
the danger which be had p6Ve l lfl n. off,
simultaneously with his disting = 6lIpSl
peer in the tendency Of Federal Legi5Ills
Beyond occasional counsel, he declined al
participation in public life, until the year