Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1867-09-12
lInniilgnralIiin. OF GovernoE meIl,a

health, ana dlS lnaDlllIyDlV PIoSVON ~.
frankfort, was inaugurated to-day at
Elizabethtown
aovBRNoR BRAMLETTs vALEDIcToRY.
Governor Bramlett, in his Valedic-
tory, said: !
When / came into Office the debt of
the State created before the-Ear was
S5915, ,234 03. We borrowed and ex-
pended during the war in support OF
our Government, $4,653,592 90. This,
added to the debt existing before the
war, and unpaid when came into Of
fco makes $40, ,826 g. Of this,
We have paid off all except S4,646, 1919
46. This amount includes all our
nrosent Indebtedness created for in
ternal improvements and school pur-
noses and debt created for war pur-
poses. The school fand is made q per-
monent debt under our Constitution,
the interest only payable. Deduct it
ISL 632297 46) from the debt which
is to be paid, and It leaves our present
debt S3,013,902. To meet this we
have in the Treasury at this time ST.
4O7 ,947 81, and in bank and other
stocks. constituting the Sinking Fund,
Az 61O5294 so. We also have large
unpaid balance due from the Federal
Government for war expenditures,
which is now being pressed for settle
anent. found you in debt, with an
existing necessity to largely increase
that debt; leave you with your debt
reduced, and ample means provided to
discharge all your liabilities:
I found you in the midst Of terrific
civil war; the State trembling beneath
the tramp Of contending armies; our
people keptin in constant dread of gueer-
rillas that rayaged tho State, and OF
military satraps who were a disgrace
toany cause; / leave You with abound
ing peace. good-fellowship restored to
our people, and with peace and pros
perity within, we have no dangers
from without to menace our security.
Bnt. fellow-citizens, it cannot be
concealed from our intelligence that
we are menaced with dangers which
tbreaten to wreck our republican form
Of government, and lay in waste the
neaee and security Of this our boun-
teous country. These dangers had
their foundation in the formation OF
sectional parties based on geogr,aPhl-
rol determinations, and which led to
our terrible civil war.
Bv the domination of one faction in
. the ,cenncils of the nation, sharpened
bv the spirit of revenge common to
Marty dissensions, we are now threat
ened with a frightful despotism, 40
avoid these dangers we should adopt
ronsiderate counsels and prudent ac.
ton against the movements OF that
faction, born Of sectional hate, thrown
unon the surface ia the convulsion OF
civil war, and kept alive by heartless
demacoeues, who subordinate every
interest, mental, moral and physical
public, private and social, to their own
base and inordinate thirst Tor place
and power and the honors and emolu'
ments of Office 81,
This party, led on by these dema
roones propose to reconstruct the
99oT9ernments OF the Southern States
90 as to enfranchise the Negro and dis
franchise the White men, not OF then
Marty in those States. They hope
thereby to build up Negro party IL
the South, which will perpetuate po
litical power in their hands. In!
dangerous work of reconstruction, i
successful, is fraught with dangers an(
calamities from which humanity
shrinks back appalled,. twill destroy
the inspired work of Washington am
his compatriots by the overthrow Q
all the reserved rights of the State
and the centralizing of power in tn
Federal Government.
It, will force conflict OF races D.
setting'the White man and the Negr'
in political array against each othe
TO contest the right to rule this coun
trv No government ever has been
nr can. he maintained which assume
to distribute its political franchise
equally and impartially between tw
antag0nistlc races Of men. This grea
trut63sis taught by history and I'm
pressed by nature as an instlnctly
principle in every living heart. l, J
the struggle for the ascentdency 9
race you set the two in political !. an =
tagonism, and conflict becomes les una "a
yoidable. :,
The. weaker, with all his adherenti
must, in the nature Of things, elthe ne
Weld or be exterminated, and the an
fagonism of races can not be abolish 81
cd byRuman enactment nor abrogate
bv constitutional amendments, an
when everlyou array tho races OF tn
country in a contest Tor tne con.r' ~ 4,
aud government Of the country, :, 'ne, nta
is no power beneath the sun TO st,' "a
the hand of destruction ana save u