The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-12-30
TIE INAUGURAL or THE 90
VERNUR or SOUTH OARO-

VERNON or SOOIH CAhO-
LIMA.
Governor Magrath, the new Executive
of South Carolina, was inaugurated on
Monday His inaugural fills two or
three columns of the Charleston Co1t-
-ier. We make two or three extracts
from it
WHAT THE ENEMY HAVE IN STORE FOR Us
THE right to self-goyernment, the
right so plainly set forth in the Const-
tuition Of this State in its declaration mat
all power B originally vested in the
! people. and all free governments are
founded on their authority, and are in
stitnted for their peace, safety and hap
piness,' is now questioned in the prose
cution of this war, and will be over
thrown by the success Of our foes.
What then would remain! Would
the rights of private properly be re
spected? These, 30 far as 1t could be
done by their legislation, have been
already extnguished. Our property
they claim to be Their property, and
THAI from which the owner Is expelled
by the force of their arms is soon ves@"i
in another by the force OF their laws
The rights of person are still less to be
protected than the rights OF property,
and the great safeguards OF personal Sc
curity which have come down through
so many centuries secured at the cost OF
so much blood and suffering, and wrung
from the tenacious grasp OF kinsiy rule
detected, tramplel and des4&ed will
mark the cOnsumlnation OF that govern
nent which was instituted to secure
, tho blessing Of liberty
: "It there will remain TO us neither
the right Of private property nor per
9 sonal security, can there be, In case
!, the success Of the enemy, even tina
= quiet which is found in the weafEleSs
y the caprice ths. belongs to pover' No
+ even will this poor and bitter boon o'
= conceded. Regarding that domestic IN
"a stitution, which has been SO long eStao
- lished among US that it has become tn
! corner stone upon which our social ecoI
> omy. as we'll as our political condition
deDends as the cause Of this war, 1t ha
- been already doomed by our toes, an
- its extinction decreed. The disruption
of the ties by which society has been held
the overthrow of the restraints by whic
its elements have been kept in harm
~ NOUS operation the cessation OF tabol
the confusion Of caste; developing II
worst passions of our race, would SQe
n present that picture Of anarchy, the me
!" conception of which reveals an extent
50 human misery which our utmost tort
~ tude cannot enable US to contemplat
"a 1t is to escape this doom, to avert tn
of suffering, that our people are IN arms
y. And if ever there was an appeal toa pc
~ pie which would summon forth all tn,
i'e energy, demand all their power, ma
d" willing every sacrifice, it is that which
''e now made to the people of these Co
federate States so strongly and stern
&C. made to the people OF this State.
Id, determine the questions OF war or
Oh neace is given to the Government ot
IA Confederate States that is the comm
'o,u ou agent of all the States.
ILL
to w"
u.s. "To develop the resources OF ca
at State so that they be administered a
nd directed successfully, because combiu
eal in the prosecution Of the war, is the
+ propriate, and now the highest, duty
ark the Government Of each Of the States
the To develop their resources adequate
eat so that the burdens of the war
me equally distributed, and that they u
ou ha nroduced tn answer the recurrence