The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-07
CHI A RI IS TON.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, NOVEMBER T. 1866
THE MESSAGE OF TIE GOVERNOR OF
GEORGIA.

We have before us the extended message of
his Exccllency CHARLES j. JENKINS, to tho
General Assembly of the State of Georgia,
which presents luminous exposition of the
progress, the prospects and the present condition
Of that State. Changes have been SO rapid with |
the people of the South for some years past,
and all of us have been busy to- retain our
own balance in the general whirl, that we have
had SO little leisure to watch the progress of
affairs in other sections, that We are apt to be
but little advised Of its results The storm
which drives US n troubled sen, and
which subjects us to the viscisitudes of COM
mon experience, precludes us from any very |
clear perceptions of our several fortunes; and
though intimately connected with the State of
Georgia, this admirable paper of his Excellency
was necessary to advise us of her conditon-to
show us how nearly her condition is our own,
and to give us the measure Of her public SEN
timent on the great political questions upon
which we also are called upon to act.
From this exposition Te arc pleased to per-
ceive that her material condition is somewhat
better than own. She has suffered from
the dcsolating raid Of SHERMAN, but not 80
much Us we did. Her negro property lost by
emancipation was not so great in proportion to
our own; less Of her property was withheld by
military authority; her industrial operations
were less interrupted by unsettled relations be-
tween the whites and blacks; she had q large
and valuable property in the Western and At
lantic Railroad ready to sustain her credit,
and from it's earnings to contribute to her
exhausted cxchequer, and hence her pecu-
mary embarrassmcnts have not been 80 great.
She has borrowed whatever of money she has
wanted for current objects OF seven per cent.
per annum, and for permanent purposes has
not been forced to sell her bonds in market for
less than ninety cents upon the dollar. In this
way she has been able to pay the interest upon
. her State debt, which amounts to $6,441 600,
Gulf Railroad to aid in the repairs of the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad; to the extent Of
$4,000 to sustain her penitentiary, colleges
common schools, lunatic asylum, academy fol
the blind; md to puy $40, 900 to support the dcs
4 titute and suffering of the State.
Q That 80 large an appropriation has beer
necessary affords the evidence, however, tina
8 among them also the cases Of individual suffer
- - ing have been frequent; and the message in
= forms us that the freed labor has not been eff
y cient, that the corn crop has been greatly in
jured by the drought, and that, of the cottol
;, crop, not SO susceptible of injury from thu
% cause, the yield will not be more than one-thir
u of what it was in former years
y The machinery Of the State, howcver-thci
institutions, municipal and eleemosynary, an
r their private corporations have been restore
t. to active and efficient operation, and as fur O
L, it hns been dependent upon themselves, there
a, fore, they have repaired the breaches of the
u and arc rcady to re-enter their distinguishe
:. careor of material and social progress. q,
,a with respect to the political relations and col
al ditons of the State, the message expresses Ii
40 tic satisfaction. His Excellency takes IL
ID, ground that, if VIC had not the right to seced
Dr. the party that denies il to us have no NOR
right to treat our net as q secession, and !
~ right, therefore, to administer the Governme
n, without us and he charges that, under the pr
ib- text of asserting the integrity of the Cover
oh ment, they have meditated merely an act
us violence and oppression upon the seeded State
He says also, and with justice to which t
' people of this State cannot fail TO respond, th
w.. the Congressional Amendment is not to be q
oh cepted by the South that, repulsive in itself,
lon s not less rcpulsive in the way it is presentt
be that, offered while VIC are under duress-wh
sti- we arc instructed to take it or take worse
approve and ratify the acts Of oppression or
on .. punished--we have no option but to stand I
tor conseq quences of refusal; that it "ere bet
A.
ais. 10 DC martyrs thah suiSiueS-pet'er oe VIGIL
OF than dcvotees at the descerated shrincs ereot
ned And to those whe feel that, in our poor esta
rcd wo are powsrless to preserve moro that
lAt' proper of selfrespect, u will bo plcasi
:, to find that, in the oourse commended by Il
On sense, they are likely to be encouraged and 9
llly tainod by the action Of the gallant State
non Georgia. t@G :"