The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-07-06
laAUGURATIoS ar TUE NEW COVER.
NOR OF VIRGINIA

gives the following account Of the inarys
. ration OF Pierpaas, which took place 10 Il
! Convention on Thursday:
i The committee retired, AID after tini
returned, accompanied by the Governel
!. whose appearances was greeted With roun
Of applause, which was Joined in BY Ii
outsiders.
4 He aseended the Speakers stand, an
after being introduced by the Presiden,
4 spoke as follows:
SPEECH OF TnE GOVERNOR ELECT.
Gentlemen Of the coareation
i return you nv sincere thanks for .hi
mark Of your coriidenee in placing me Il
the most critical and trying position i
which any man could be placed at the pres
| eut time.
This day and this event mark period Il
the history Of eoBssitusiopal liberty. The
mark pss,ad in American history. Fs
nore than three quarters OF a century ou
+! government has procet ded, in all the State
aud in all the territories, upon which on
fathers erected it-namely: upon the in
ielligence of the people; and that in tn
people resides all power, and that from
them all power must emanate.
those Who are at the head of the revolution
in our Southern States-that the peopie ar,
not the source Of all power. Those pro
mitigating this doctrine have tried TO diyid,
the people into two classes; one they cal
/ the labering classes the other the capita
class. They have, for several years, beer
industriously propagatins the idea that th,
capital OF the country ought TO represent
The legislation Of the country, and guide i
an6 direct II: maintaining thasit is danger.
Gus for the labor Of the country to entei
into the legislation Of the country. This
| gentlemen, is the principle that has charac.
! tefiaei therevotntion that has been inauyu.
ted in the South; they maintaining thai
those who are to have the privilege of voting
! ought to be of the educated class, and thai
| the segislution ought not to be represented
/ by the iaboriug classes.
We, in Western Virginia, and as I sup.
| poe in the whole Of Virginia, adopted the
| great doe rue Of the fathers OF the Repub.
! lie that in the people resides all power: and
! that embraced all people. This revolutiot
! has been inausurated with the view OF
| making a distinction upon the principles
| that have indicated. We of Western y,r-
| giaia have not been consulted upon that
subject. The large body Of your citizens
IN the eastern part of the State have no,
| been consulted upon that subject. .-..,
American institutions lie near to the
heart of the masses of the people, all over
this country, from one end of it to the 9th.
er, though not nearly perhaps in Louisi.
ana, Georgia aud Texas, as in some Of ths
! Western and Northern States.
| This idea has been cover,lv advanced
/ only in portions Of Virginia. She has stoot
/ irm By the doctrines Of the fathers of the
| Revolution up to within very short period
! Its pagatcrs have attempted to force il
upon US by terror and at the point of the
! bgyonet. We have been driven into The
f-poStiou, we occupy to-day by the usurpers
| OF the South, who have inaugurated this
war upon the soil Of Virginia, and have
made it the great. Crimea of the contest
| We, representing the loyal citizens Of Vir.
ginia, have been bound to assume the posi-.
tion we have assumed to-day for the protec-
tion OF ourselves, our wives, our children
and our property. We, / repeat, have beer
driven to assume this position; and now WI
are but returning to the great fundamental
principle of our fathers, that to the loyal
people of State belongs the law-making
power OF that State. The loyal people are
are entitled to the government and govern.
mental authority of the State. And. fel.
low citizens, it is the assumption of ,ba,
authority upon which we are now about to
enter. E @Eta....F 5##e~
1t will be for us BY Grmness, and by pru-
dence, by wisdom, by discretion, in all our
| acts, to inaugurate every step we take for
the purpose of restoring law and order to
this ancient Commonwealth to mark vel
our steps, and to implore the divine wisdom
| and direction Of him that ruleth above, who
has every hair of our head numbered, and
who suslereth not sparrow to fall unnotic.
ed to the ground. and his guidance and d.
rection in enabling us to carry out the great
work We have undertaken here, in humility,
but with decision aud determine ion.
With these remarks thank YOU again for
the honor you have conferred upon me. and
promise you that will do the best can in
administering your wishes, and in trying ia
carry. out the great object We have been
working for here, and for which we expec,
to work for some time to come. | thank
YOU gentlemen. Great applause.l aa
The oath was then administered by An.
drew Wilson, Esq. a Justice Of the Peace,
and Mr.. Pirrpont became de .facio the Coy
ernor of Virginia. a
( GOOD FOR HIM. ..-. n,-
The following is an extract from speech
delivered by lion. David Todd, few days
ago, in Scion: al r..-