Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-11-13
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
Gentlemen Of the Senate
and House OT Pe4,resa1fSS;,,oe

] Gelttten1efl Of the Senate
and House Of Representatives.
1 congratulate you and the whole coun.
| try upon the gratifying result Of the late
! Presidential election, which hss termina.
/ ted ia the elevation OF Gen. Grant snd
Hon. Schuyler Colfax to the highest Off
cial stations In the gift of the American
people.
The result is especially satisfactory in
view OF the circumstances attending, and
the principles involved in, the canvass
now go happily closed. The Issues were
clearly defined; they were fairly and
strongly brought before the American
people, and they were pronounced upon
with a degree of Unanimity seldom, II
ever before, witnessed in our national
history.
Il is unnecessary to repeat them in this
connection, further than to say that they
show 8 just appreciation of the invalus-
ble services rendered TO the country by
the highly distinguished General now
elected the Chief Magistrate of the Re
pubic; they also display q confidence in
his integrity ard ability which I cannot
for moment allow myself to believe
misplaced. They declare, moreover,
most uhmistaZably, that the American
people viii sustain at the polls by the
balI0t-as they vindiceted triumphsntly
in the fieid-tbe principles OF loyalty and
the men who adhere to them. Ia other
shsi halifs aa56minlsiSr tGe G6Svvigrnment Svis Of
these United States, and thst in such aG-
miuis.rsti0n, as well as among those Of
unofficial station, lcySl men, white and
black, North and South, East and West,
shall be protected.
The late election is the most eIsDnati-
eally pronounced judgment o. the Amer
lean people ever given, OF the fundRmen-
tai principles underlying our whole pc
liticsl fabric and contained il the immor-
tai Declaration Of 1776. AS such, also,
it fully vindicates the policy of the State
administration of Tennessee during the
lsst four years.
Perhaps never before, in the entire ex-
istencs of the National Government
nov nearly one hundred yeaTs-has there
been displayed sn equal measure Of vita.
perstion, unscrupulOus fslsehoOd, and
reckless allegations as have been leveled
against the successful candidates-a most
melancholy proof, this, Of the utter de-
generscy and corruption OF that party
hich, after instigsting rebellion and
aiding and abetting it during its progress,
after its utter defeat gathered up its scat
sought to invest itself with the full ssBe-
tsons and powers of the Govern ment il
had vainly sought to destroy. Forum
stely for oar future as people, and cred
itably for our record in history, the utter
and overwhelming, and dishoDOTabie de-
feat and overthrow OF that party are ae-
compIished by the intelligent energy, the
incoTruptible virtue and free, uaswsyed,
unpurchased suffrage of American citi-
ZeDs.
Another special occasion for cOngratu-
latiOn is found in the abundant fsvoTs
with which q benefceDt Providence has
crowned theyeaT. GoOdiy haTvssts have
requited the husbandman. Sickness and
wasting and mildew have been turned
aside. God has grsciously exempted US
from "the pesiiience that walketh II
darkness, and the destruction Mat vast
eth al no0ndsy.n Plentiful rewards have
compensated honest industry, and gene
raj thrift and prosperity have attended
cur fellOw-eitiZens.