The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-10
CHARLESTON MORNING, JULY TO- 1865

The Governor urges the Legislature to
memorialize Congress to relieve every citi-
zen Of the State from political disabilities,
saying that the continuance Of disfranchise-
ment would be Gan anomaly under our Re-
publican system" 1t need not be feared
that such an s'act Of magnanimity" will be
mistaken by the class disfranchised, who,
by this time, fully understand what they
have to expect at the hands of their negro
legislators.
In speaking of education, Governor SCOTT
says, emphatically, that separate schools
must be provided for the white and colored
children. Educational miscegenation "would
virtually give to our colored population the
exclusive benefit of our public schools. f"
This is obvious enough to any intelligent
white man; but the negroes will howl and
yell, and believe that they see in this dis
Greet counsel the first step towards estab-
fishing, by law, the natural and insupera-
BILE superiority of the white mana supe-
riority which no Legislatures and no mill
tary power can long override.
The general advice given in relation to
the diersifcation ofcrops in South Carolina
has more than once been urged in this
paper. Experience has done more than
lecturing could do, and our farmers are
pretty well convinced that cotton must not
be allowed to be the sole dependence of the
South.
Upon the railroad question Governor
Sco7r is very explicit. Already Congress
has had under consideration the advisable
ty of regulating by law the rates to be
charged by railroads, SO as to secure the
carrying of freight at a uniform rate per
mile. This idea meets with the approval of
General SooTr, but he advises that the ne
cessary legislation shall be carried out by
the State itself. The speedy completion Of
the Blue Ridge Railroad is to be secured by
furnishing the company timely aid, upon q
plan to be hereafter submitted.
The State House is recommended to be
repaired and fitted up SO as to make it
tenantable for the General Assembly and
Executive Department The peuitentiary
is to be completed as soon as possible, and
made self-supporting.
Governor SCOTT speaks in high terms of
the Freedman's Bureau, but says that it
may be dispensed with in this State imme.
diately after the civil officers have entered
upon the discharge the duties Of their re-
spective Offices.
The murder of Dill is imputed to politi-
cal causes, and Governor SooTr trusts that
the guilty persons will soon be brought to
justice.
The presence of the military forces Of
the United States is said to be a reproach
to q republican State, and when the militia
is organized those forces may be dispensed
with.
1t is recommended that the military or
ders in relation to debts, distraints, Sc, be
declared binding until repealed by the Gen
eral Assembly. Governor ScoTT urges that
the salaries of all State officers shall be
placed at such figure as will give them
only reasonable compensation for tho dis
charge of their duties, and in conclusion
expresses the hope that the Legislature
will represent the whole State unselfshly,
and that an era of good feeling and pros
perity may soon return.