The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-01-13
GoYernor Swami.


On the induction into Office of Governor
Swami at Annapolis on Monday last, General /
James L. Ridgely made the following remarks:
Mr.. Governor The spectacle which is being T
enacted to-day, upon the accession Of the new
Ivchosen Governor to the Chair Of State, Is SO |
unusual and unprecedented, that our friends I
thought as we came from our homes to this
ancient city, that circumstances SO full OF
meaning should not be permitted to pass by |
in silence. 1t seems to them proper that
word shall be spoken, in feeble expression OF
this significance. There is here to day In your
presence larger representation OF the respee-
table and influential industrial element OF the
city of Baltimore and the adjacent counties,
than ever was assembled without special Ell
fort Believe me, sir, that this spontaneous
demonstration is not without its moral. 1t re-
.heets.the sentiment of thatlarge, patriotic and
intelligent people by whose suffrage you have
been called to the Executive Chair. 1t utters
the voice of their entire sympathy with you
upon the grave and m0mentous issues which
have convulsed the country for the last four
wears, and now are agtating the councils OF
the nation, and exciting the most intense anx-
iety 1t also gives expression to sentiments
rejecting the respect and affection which the
people of Maryland cherish for your personal
and private worth. They have long been &C,
customed to recognize in you qualities OF nina
and head, happily combined, which have
served to add dignity to your character as a la
borer in the true interests of the State, and
Justly commend you to generous regard. Inc
people know and gratefully appreciate your Ell
forts for the public good in the many positions
of honor and responsibility which they have
called YOU to occupy, and feel that in honoring
YOU they have honored themselves. Review
ing your record, there comes up at this moment
measures, fresh and fragrant, with many sub
stantial and enduring benefits which your ge-
MUS energy and acknowledged administrative
ability have conferred upon the State. Among
these none loom up at this moment more prom
inently, and enttle you to a larger gratitude,
than your advent to the Office as the head OF
our great work of internal Improvement That
work sir, you found slumbering at Cumbe
in a Rip Van Wrinkle sleep of.ten or more years
duration. AS if by magic you, with your noble
coadjutors, vitalized the torpid giant and reused
it from lethargy which, II prolonged, woulq
have been fatal to the best interests OF the me-
tropolis of the State, and to the State ITSELF
Your counsels, your energy, your enterprise
and administrative ability, at that perilous and
critical moment, decided the question whether
Baltimore should be dwarfed into mere VII
lage or advanced by bold effort to its present
vast proportions, with bright prospects Tor still
great development. This, sir, has been the fruit
of the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to the Ohio, and your example has
left an i'm press aAd influence upon the admin
stration of that work, which has not failed to
distinguish it's subsequent history. You come,
sir, with these antecedents. to the Executive
Chair of Maryland your past inspires the
people with the conviction that new era is
now about to open upon the State. To this con-
viction they are anchored with firm and un-
wavering confidence. I congratulate the peo-
pie upon the auspiclous circumstances OF this,
day l congratulate you. sir, that you hold SO
firm grasp upon their affections, and in their
name welcome you to the occupancy OF the
peoples mansion.
GOVERNOR swANN's REMARKS.
Governor Swami, in response to Mr.. Ridgely,
said:
.,"I expected, my friends, to have taken pos
session of this mansion as private individual,
unattended by such retinue as see around
me- My friend who has just spoken has allu-
ded to the personal element intermingled in
the ceremonies now going forward. think,
upon looking around, thatI recognize the faces
of fifteen to twenty years standing friends, who
have stood shoulder to shoulder with me in the
great efforts we have made heretofore, not only
to promote the prosperity of the city of Balti-
more, but of the whole State of Mary land."-
Applause and cries of good, good.
You are here to day, my friends, as Balti
moreans. You have come to show your appre-
citation of my public position and the private
relations in which have stood to the people
sociated with me heretofore will do me the JUS
tice to say that l exerted myself-not for the
benefit of this class, or that class, or the other
class-but for the whole population of the city
of Baltimore.
In my connection with your great works of
internal Improvements, to which my friend
has so gracefully referred, it is true was call2
ed to the head Of your chief work OF internal
improvement at a time when it had been insti
tuted. believe that the present prosperity OF
the city of Baltimore and of the whole State Of
MARYLAND depended upon the vitality of that
great line of intercommunication. And Think
that its prosperity is the result, in no small de-
gree of the exerton of one of the most dis
tingushed financiers in this country-a man
who contributed largely to the success OF that
work in its incipency.
| entered upon the discharge of my duties
under great disadvantages, in the contrast of a
private individual taking that position as the
successor of so distinguished man. We sue
ceeded--I will not say by my efforts, for had
men connected with me in the city of Baltimore
who shared with me the glory of that enter
prise. We succeeded in uniting the shores of
the Chesapeake and the Ohio. But for the tri-
umph of that great work Baltimore would be
twenty years behind the position she now oc-
cupes, and the observation-disclosures of the State
would have suffered in the same ratio. Bullet
that pass. / refer to it merely because my
in connection with that great line of internal
improvement And permit me to say, for
think it would be appropriate on this occasion,
to say that the present management has shown
its appreciation of the position in which that
work is now placed, and the relation it must
occupy towards the people of the State of Mary
land, by the liberal and unexampled manner
in which you have been met by the company
on this occasion. / think it is creditable to
them that they have responded to the applica-
ton of the people of Baltimore-for recognize
you here as representatives Of every ward and
of every interest in that city.
am indebted to you, in a very great meas
ure, for the position now occupy; in your sus-
tentation of me in the great principles upon
which have hitherto stood, principles that are
about to eliminate in the endorsement of the
distinguished man who occupies the Chief Ex-
ecutiye Chair in Washington, (applause,] prin-
cipleS that are now to reunite this country, and,
as | seriously trust to bring together the scat
tered elements into WHICH we have been divi-
ded. We want Union. We want harmony
We want a combination OF all the elements up
ON which we have relied in bringing back the
it pristine vitality and yielding full fidelity
to that old flag, which floats to-day over the
sea and over the land, the symbol of freedom.
Tremendous applause / thank you sincere
ly for the great and distinguished honor you
have conferred upon me. have aheart that
can appreciate these acts of kindness. Differ
endes have occurred among us, but, l thank
God, such a state of affairs is passing away
| thank you, my friends, for this most compli-
mehtary escort.
Half Yearly Dividends.
The following half-yearly dividends, declar-
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