The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-12-02
MANUFACTURERS.

In view of the Importance of attracting
manufacturing capital to the State, re-
specttully submit for your consideration
the propriety of exemption from taxation
for five years all capital hereafter invested
in them. This policy has been adopted
in the adjoining State of Georgia, and has
had the effect, in some cases, of divertiDg
capital to that State, which would other
wise have been invested within our own.
THE SWAMP LANDS
of the State comprise more than one mil
Lion of acres Of almost inexhaustible fer
tility. In their present condition these
lands are not only worthless, but mis-
chievous from their pestilential exhala-
tions. affecting the health and deteriora-
ting the value of large extent OF adJoin-
ing territory, rendering them uninhabi-
table for a considerable portion of the
year. This is the moro inexcusable from
the comparative ease and economy with
which the swamps may be drained and
brought under cultivation. What is
mainly wanted is an accurate survey of
the swamp territory. and next plan for
accomplishing it's reclamation. To be ef-
fective this must be generally conformed
to. How or by whom the expenses of
the improvement should be betrayed,
whether wholly by those directly inter
csted in making them or jointly with
those more remotely affected by thcm. a
means of ascertaining the amount of bene-
fit derived by the respective parties from
the improvement can only be found by
taking the recent State assessment as the
present value of tho lands, and compare
it with an assessment Of their value alter
the improvement is completed, and the
lands to be taxed accordingly. The i'm
portance and value of such an improve
ment can hardly be estimated. 1t would
change the features and character OF the
most valuable and productive section OF
the State, and add many millions to the
annual value of its production. The exc
cution of it would make available large
quantities of the most valuable timber
land, besides unveiling the extent and
richness of that immense sedimentary de-
posit of Phosphates which underlies the
low country from the Santee to the
Savannah. And it would also make
healthy and habitable region of country
which, for it's balmy atmosphere, the
richness of its soil it's delicious fruits, and
its abundance of fish, oyster and game, is
not surpassed on the face of the globe.
To transform such country from a
wilderness to an elysium, would be
work of bene6cence as we'll as sound
policy, and would rebound to the credit
of all who participated in its accomplish
ment.
CONCLUSION.
1t is related of the Roman Emperor Sc
verus-once colored freedman in the Ro-
man army, but whose energy, talents and
valor had placed him at its head-that du-
ring an invasion of Britain he was arrested
in bis march by an attack of illness, which
was soon known would terminate fatally.
In bis dying moments, surrounded by his
generals, who were passionately attached
to him, he was approached by centurion
of his army, who applied to him for the
password of the day. The dying monarch,
in that supreme moment on the verge of
eternity, gave utterance to sentiment
which had probably been the inspiration
Of his life and cynosure of his fame.
Rallying his dying energies, in response
to the application of the centurion for the
password, he exclaimed: Laboremus"-
Let us work, and falling backwards, ex-
pired. Gentlemcn of the General Assem-
bly,, in view of our duties and responsible
tiles to those who have entrusted their
interests to our charge, and in the name
and by the help of the Almighty Ruler OF
the Universe in whose hands are the des-
tinies of nations, Let us work.
ROBERT K. SCOTT,
Governor.
COLUMBIA, S. c.. Nov. "a, 1869.