The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-12-12
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
HIs .gxeEllENcY. FRANKLIN j. NOSES.
Etllo,c. Citizens ofthe, Senatc and.

the General Assembly since the tablishment OF
free government in the State of South Carolina;
1t should be with as q source of profound
gratitude to Divine Providence that you meet
under auspices that betoken brighter and bet
ter DAYS for the whole people of the State,
whose sworn representatives you are. The
earth has rewarded the labor of our husband
men with abundant fruits, while all the varied
forms and arts of industry are being prosecu-
ted with hopeful energy amid apparently uni
versal peace and order, under our happy system
of government, which guarantees and main-
tains liberty regulated BY law.
We have been mercifully exempt from the
great and disastrous fires which, during the
past year, have swept over so many portions OF
our common country, consuming to ashes the
garnered wealth of years. and reducing the rich
and the poor to the same level OF INDECENT suf-
fering.
Let gs endeavor, felow-citizens, to deserve
these 81 ignal blessings by faithful and consci-
entious discharge of all the important trusts re-
posed in us by the people.
In entering upon the duties of the high Office
which l have been vested by the generous favor
of my tellow-citizens, my deep sense OF graft
tude to them for the honor conferred by their
free sufrages is associated with patient con-
viction Of the grave responsibility which has
been impused upon me by their choice.
win endeavor to discharge my whole duty
to the whole people of the State. To this end
1 invoke the considerate judgment and active
cooperation of every member of the General
Assembly, whatever may be his party creed,
and the open aid and assistance of every good
citizen in the commonwealth of South Carolina.
While I shall not forget that, as candidate,
represented in my person the Union Repub-
licafi party, whose benefcient principles are
expressed in the doctrine of equal rights and
exact, Justice to all men, now incorporated in
the fundamental law of the State and nation ;
and while under any and all circumstances my
duty of devotion and fidelity to my party shall
be ever present to my mind, l trust that may
always remember that, as the Chief Magistrate
of the State, represent all the people of South
Carolina, and that the lines which Limit my
zeal for their interests must, IN honor, be cock
tensive with her boundaries.
Standing here to-day, in the august presence
of the assembled Lawmakers of the State, and
of this large multitude, with the oath of office
in all its solemn sanctity fresh upon my lips, l
pledge my best efforts to insure that during my
administration "the Commonwealth shall suffer
no detriment" n4.
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, let us re-dedicate ourselves to the
great work and duty of the hour. Let us prove
to the world, by the enactment of just laws and
their impartial administration, that the highest
private liberty here is consonant with the great
est public good.
Our people are happy in the possession of a
bountiful soil and genial climate. Here the
varied products of temperate and tropic zones
grow side by side, while our streams are fash
ing In the sunlight of perpetual spring. The
imperial plant, whose feecy fbres enter into
the raiment of civilized man throughout the
globe, and whose production presses heavily
upon the very balance wheels of the CONNER
cial exchanges of the world, has here its native
home and imost luxuriant growth. Yet the
face of the emigrant is turned away from our
State, and capital, which sets labor in motion
and Creates tie manufactures which contribute
to the comfort and elevation of man, shrinks
back from US, as if the seals of pestilence were
broken, and vials emptied out upon this beau
tiful land of ours. Hence, nearly three-fourths
Of our vast territorial area, embracing not less
than thifty.si1 thousand square miles, lie fall
LOW tedsy. eii 7,,ef
>; This disastrous result is largely. due to the
fell spirit of political intolerapce, which has
Been manifested during, the past five years, BY
the former governing Class III South Carolina.
who stili; in great part, represent the educated
intelligence and landed property OF the State.
That intolerance, which was at FIRST success
fully directed to destroy the financial credit OF
the State Government, both at home and
abroad also prescribed every native and adop-
ted citizen who openly declared himself IN .ac-
cord with the political sentiments which we're
entertained by the vast majority of the people
of the United States, who have, by the result
of the recent national campaign, furnished a
most memorable proof of their firm determin-
alton that only those who are known to reflect
and maintain those political sentiments shah
rule in this republic Of ours.
Individual prescription and habitual denun-
citation of the government both State and Fed
eral, were coon followed by armed organizations
in various sections Of the State, which, led by
bold bad and designing men, overawed by
their numbers and daring, the law-abiding
majority, and seourged and slew many of their
feliow-citizens because of their political opin-
ions or party affiliation.
= The barbarous acts of minority OF the
minor party in the State continued, with vary
inc, intensity for Q long and dark period of
more than three years. The government of the
State having made Intellectual attempts to check
them, both BY earnest appeals to the reason and
humanity of those who we're regarded as the
political leaders and exponents OF Cne desperate
men engaged ip them, and by its available
constabplary force, finally. appealed to the ma
tioonIl authority for protection to American
citizens from lawfess violence withinithe limits
of,the State. -
That appeal, after long delay incident to
procuring the necessary legislation by the Con-
gress g of the United States, was efectually re-
sponded to, through the Federal courts, sus-
tained by the military arm of the Government.
AS the result of that Intervention, for which
our most profound gratitude is DUE to the Gov
ernment Of the United States, many, hundreds
Of the persons engaged in those lawless under
takings, so abhorrent to our free institutions
and to the civilization of the age, have been
arrested and imprisoned, under sentence, while
many more charged, with having. been engaged
in them have, through sense Of fear or guilt,
fed beyond the borders OF our State
econoa yS;oh were go utterly revolving to all