Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-16
COY. 30 YVES IVA EGu WV

| The address delivered on "Wednesday by
| Hon. Oden Bowie on / :. nfcasi,,ii Of his
Inauguration as Gnvcrnor Of Mar, land is
abou! such as might have been rNprcied
from Conservative Mary lander Il the
new Governors anieccdent>; lie In ng a
scion Of one Of Maryland's aris,ocrA,i,' fam
lilies and the grandson Of u former & .prnor
Bowie.
He announces that the Object Of his adj
dress is to avow to the people Of IL cnnn-
try the views of the s're- enl'ranchiscd l,oople
of Maryland ''as expressed with such
singular unanimity at the recent election
These views, 10 put them more tersely
than the Governor does, are in favor Of the
restoration of the rebel States to their old
place in the Union in the hands OF the same
men who took them out negro suffrage in
those States only where the white people
agree to it; the return at the earliest pracii
cable day to the constitutional currency Of
gold and silver; leaving the regulation Of
suffrage and all other domestic questions in
the hands Of the States; relieving tho freed
men from being any further .'seduced fro.l
their patient habits Of industry by the inir-
duction of politics amongst them and COM
polling the idle amongst them 10 become
producers instead of consumers.
Concerning Presiden, johnson tho Gov
ernor is really enthusiastic and considers
the issue as made up between the President
and Congress decided in favor of the former;
he severely repr0bates the impeachment
effort and considers it "a matter Of painful
and Notifying regret that the report should
have been submitted.
The whole spirit Of the address is that
OF similar documents before the war and,
with one exception, shows that though
Governor Bowie recognizes the fact tina,
some rather remarkable events have trans
pred during the past six years, he utterly
fails to comprehend their significance.
The exception is ono We ara glad 10 note
ltshows the war has not utterly failed of ii
object, for il is almost worth war 10 i'm
press such an idea as tho necessity and dig
nifty " labor on men reared and educated a
| was Mr.. Bowie
, He gets of Bourbon like idea and at tn
same time gives some excellent advice 10
claks which nseds il in the following Ian
guage;-
"As an agriculturist myself thi. labo
a question is to me one Of great interest
!, ''and whilst would compel the idle frect
imam TO become producer instead of
| n
:, linen Of Maryland, as Of the South, the n,
>. ''cessity of themselves Selling hold of agr
N s'cultural as they did of warlike implement
Ia ''if they would not see their ancestral scr,
! ''pass into other and strangers hands. III
ii intelligent, directing labor of the owner
. sthc land is essential 10 tho changed syste
il (which must needs occur incur agricultur
IL land let no one be deferred by a fool
of pride, but rather let him be impeled to n
a "by the conviction that labor is as honor
lv ''ble and much more remuneratiyc in Il
!, ''creative as in the destructive arts"
q He openly advises the late rebels to co
of tinue doing just what Andrew johnson Ii
al been encouraging them TO do, i, G. mainta
e anarchy until Democracy controls the n
tional Legislature. He says
sc :" Let theirs be position of mastery
u "activity,' voting down such instrumer
% "miscalled constitutions as may be subm
US tied to them by their mongrel conventio
T." 'of negroes and adventures, and their pro
ID. ser status will ere long be restored to the
,se "by wise and Just national lepislation.