The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-12-08
MISSOURI.
More of Gov. BrOwn's Message.

ST. LOUIS, December 7.-GoV. Browns
message was read to the Legislature to.
day, Some Of its principal features, not
already mentioned, are US follows
lie thinks the most effective remedy Tor
corruption and inCapacity in office is in
limiting Executive appointments to cases
OF emergency, and refer the other selec-
tiOns to the people. He says the greatest
incubus now resting upon the people Of
Missouri is found in the taxes and duties
direct and indirect, levied by the United
States, They amount To much more an
nuRlly than all our other taxes put to-
gethGr, yet do not go into the national
treasury, but are spent largely in COllec-
tiOns, or are put into the pockets OF the
favored classes. The bonded debt of the
State is SIT ,SGG, 900; assessed value OF all
taxable property in the State, 1915, 1000, ,OOO
total receipts into the State Treasury for
the past year, $35799iI; disbursements,
81, 725, $50, OF which $SlOy380 was on ac'
count of interest; $l,959732 on ac-
COuntOf State Government; $S5,00l on nc.
count Ol sinking fund, and 1887 ,454 Tor
schools; balance in treasury, $sl7 ,lS2, The
county, township and municipal indebt-
ednesS amounts 10 nearly $41 100000, the
larger portion being for railroad subscrip-
tiOn. The total county school fund Is
$3,597054. Whole number Of schools,
6,lO4, of which 2l0 arc colored; whole
number Of children taught, 323, ,tG4; and
the whole numbcfof children in the State
between the ages of five and twenty.one
years, G27 ,203; number of miles of rail
road in the State on the first Of January,
1871, was $3.50; number ofmiles In course
of reconstruction, 707. The eapitalinvested
In these roads Is estimated at $ll7,548,3l7.
The Governor discusses the national pOlit.
ical situation ut great length. After Od.
verting to the material welfare Ofthe State
and COngratulating the people on It's
prosperity, he says II Is equally source
Of CongratulatiOn that It's political inilu-
CncC has been signally enhanced by the
wise courses Of Cancellation so emphatic
ally initiated by our last election. The
advent of Liberation TO the administration
Of the State has recalled the resentments
Of war and confirmed absolute freedom to
all; evolved anew tho principles of self.
government acting through local organi.
cations; established purer civil service
instead ofthat compelled by the slavish
ways of partsanship, and melted the
youthful energies OF new generation To
compass the great destinies Ol the future,
rather than rehabilitatc itself in the. e.dead
issues of the past. lie then enumerates
what liberation has done, and draws
lengthy distinction between the Republi.
can ideas and the Idea which, he says, has
been fOisted upon the Republican party.
In the discussion Of the distinction lie
makesA powerful arraignment Of tho nd.
minstratiOn party and policy rs per.
vision of Republican ideas and high trca.
son to Republican principles. Ills closing
paragraph Is as follows:
"rhG attempt TO establish by force OF
martial law q civil society that would &C.
cord with this superior government
never has been, and never will be n sue
cess AT present II Is not success at the
South. In tho past II was not success
Mt the North, and the teachings OF rs
illuminate tho failure of century later.
There Is latent in the reconstructed States,
rs elsewhere throughout the Union, much
Of that sentiment which finds expression
in deviation from frecdOm-a sentiment
exaggerated In wrongful secession under
the plant passion of the slavery contro.
versy, but one which IN the absence oi
slavery may be Channelled back into the
surGst safeguard for the equal freedom OF
all. 1t Is in maintaining the germinal
points from which tho growths Of free
opinion start in preserving the
forms through which II passes into
political life, and respecting the
distributions Of the duty 1t imposes, the
constitution II has created, that security
will be found for all who are COmmingled
in such society as ours. II isparlly be.
cause this is assured and sought u be
supplnnted by outward force alone that
so little advancement has been made by
the Government in the oslensible recon.
ciliatioA. The same result would follow
in other States on any other question thus
engineered, and II Is worthy Of note, by
Republicans as well as by Democrats,
that every party which has passed from
power since the foundation Of the Gov
ernment, has lost this confidence OF the
people because Of the attempt to cxalt
national above all local freedoms, and to
strain the national power to ends for
which II was never designed, by methods
repulsive 10 the common thought, and
the present will only add another 10 the"
list, for II Is great mistake to suppose
that Northern men do not recognize this
fatal blunder, or that that they demand q
continuance Of the method Of madness.
In this behalf trade has been wiser then
politics, and It Is ever true that love Is
stronger than hate" .