Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-03
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GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
COLUMBIA, S. c.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, |
COLUMBIA, s. C., Nov. %, 1851. !
EcUor. Citizens of he Senutr

FcNow- Citizens Of he Sen"'c
ard House Of Representatives,:
Assembling as you do for the public SER
vice from every election District in the State,
representing all professions and occupations,
YOU bear with you, doubtless, grateful sense
of the present blessings enjoyed by our citi-
zens of health and bouutiful harvests, and
will cheerfuily 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,
o,lr people cannot have too scrupulous re-
gard to individual integrity, nor can we too
strictly guard against the failiugs which pc
culiarly beset us, assured that practical life,
which best illustrates due sense of duty to
God and our neighbor, constitutes the most
acceptable service to him who orders the at
fairs of men, and whose eyes are upon us
all.
It must needs be that sickness and death
visit every community, striking down the
Youthful and the aged, the vigorous and ac-
tive, as we'll as the in6rm. If We have seen
the energetic minds, industrious powers and
generous impulses of friends and public SER
wants stiled in death, we have left to US the
inestimabe satisfaction Of knowing that they
met their fate with courage in the path OF
duty. Since your last session, death has de-
prived the delegation to Congress from this
State of two valued members. In the month
Of February, the Hon. Preston 5. Brooks,
while in the midst of active public duty, en-
gagged in course Of usefulness and honor,
and winning by his manly conduct and ster-
ling worth, the confidence and admiration OF
members, was removed to another sphere
The only official intimation [ had OF Mr..
Brooks death, was communicated on the
25th of March, by one of our Senators, the
late Judge Butler. Within two months
from that date, he, too, was laid in the silent
grave, beside his gallant relative and friend,
Excitable and conscientious as he was, the
labors of the last Congress had proved toe
much for him. Honorable and fair i'll des'
patching business-viglant and faithful in
his peculiar trust-dligent, spirited, and
able in discharging it, his nervous sensiblll'
ties were too highly wrought upon, and the
tension of his mental energies too incessan'
to be longer endured by the physical frame
Soon after reaching the coveted quiet OF ms
own home, he sank into the arms of death,
universally regretted by his associates III life,
mourned and lamented by his constituents
the people of this State.
The vacancy created in the Fourth Con
gressional District has been filled by the
election of Gen. Milledge L. Bonham, oil
Edgefeld, who was commissioned in May
last.
In place of the Hon. \. 7. 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,
timately and prominently associated with the
Government of both the State and the Uni
ted States, whose loss We deplore, and to
whose brilliant career of early service may