The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-12-14

from employment, or had but the second
best chance of finding it; and the foreign
emigrant turned away from the region
where his condition would be so precari-
GUS. With the destruction of the mono
ply, free labor will hasten from all parts
of the civilized world to assist in develop
ing various and undesirable resources
which havo hitherto lain dormant. The
eight or nine States nearest the Gulf OF
Mexico have soil of exuberant fertility,
q climate friendly to long life, and can
sustain denser population than is found
as yet in any part Of our country. And
the future influx OF population to them
will be mainly from the North, or from
tho most cultivated nations in Europe
from the sufferings that have attended
them during our late struggle, let us look
away to the future, which is sure to be
laden for them with greater prosperity
than has ever before been known. The
removal of the monoply Of slave labor is
. pledge that those regions will be poo
pied By numerous and entcrprising
population, which will vic with any in the
Union in compactnoss, inventive genius,
wealth and industry.
Our government springs from and was
made for the peoplc-not tho people for
the government. 10 them it owes aiIo-
glance; from them it must derive its
courage, strength and wisdom. But, while
the government is thus bound to defer to
the people, from whom it derives its ex
iltenco; it should, from the very consid-
Grafton Of its origin, be strong in its pow-
er of resistance to tho establishment Of
inequalities. Monopolies, pcrpctuities and
class legislation are contrary to the
genius OF free government and ought not
to be allowed Here there is no room for
favored classes or monopolies; the prin-
ciple Of our government is that of equal
laws and freedom Of industry. Wherever
monopoly attains foothoId it is sure to be
a source of danger, discord and trouble.
We shall but fulfil cur duties as lcgisla-
tors by according equal and exact justco
to all men," special privilege to none
The government Is subordinate TO the
people; but, as tho agent and representa-
tive of the people, it must DO held supe-
rior to monopolies, which, in themselves,
ought never to be granted: and which,
where they exist, must be subordinate
and yield to the government.
THE PRESENTATION OF TIE UN1oM.
When, on the organization Of our gov
ornment, under tho constitution, the
President of the United States delivered
his inaugural address to the two houses
of Congress, he said to them, and through
them to the country and to mankind,
':that tho preservation Of the sacred fire Of
liberty and the destiny of the republican
model of government arc Justly consid-
cred as deeply, perhaps rs finally stakcd
on the experiment intrusted to the Amer
lean people" And the House Of Repre-
sontativcs answered Washington by the
voice of of3Iadison: 1--WE adore the invis-
ible hand which has led the American
people, through go many difficulties, to
cherish a concious responsibility for the
destiny of republican liberty" More
than soventy-siz years have glidcd away
since these words were spoken the Unit
ed States have passed through sevcrer
trials than were forcseen; and now, at thia
now epoch in our existonce as cne nation,
with our Union purified by sorrows and
strengthened by conflict, and established
by the virtue of the people, the great
neos of the occasion invites us once more
to repeat, with solemnity, the pledges Of
our fathers to hold ourselves answerablc
before our fellow-mon for the success Of
ths republican form Of Government
Experience has proved its sufiiciency in
peace and war; it has vindicated its au-
tbority through dangers, and affections,
and sudden and terrible emergencies,
which would have crushed any system
that had bcens less firmly fixed in the
heart of tho people. at the inauguration
Of ashington the foreign relations of the
country were few, and its trade was re-
pressed by hostile regulations; now all
the civilized nations ofthe globe welcome
our commerce, and their Governments
profess towards lis amity. Then our
country felt its way hesitatingly along
IN rntried path. with States so little bound