The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-12-12

exhibition and indulgence OF sucn passions anu
hates might sometimes enable political party
to win, by them the people of the State must
always lose.
I therefore appeal to the men of my own
race. in South Carolina, in the common interest
of her whole people, to place themselves abreast
with the advancing civilization OF the age, and
cultivate nobler spirit of toleratloD, worthy OF
the ancient reDown of the State Garner up
if you choose-all that you may justly deem
honorable in the mouldering traditions OF our
people, and walk with reverential tread near
the graves of the brave and devoted men who,
however mistaken they may have been, died
willingly in defence of what they believed to
be right But deal more justly and kindly with
our dark foster-brothers of the State. They
are -citizens, by the constitution and laws
of our common country, and your destiny is
bound up with theirs-for good or evit-in all
coming time. Rise above that spirit of sec
tionalism which has so long been the dark stain
on the escutcheon of our most distinguished
statesmen, and which marred the noble charac-
acter and narrowed the intellectual range OF
the great Virginia senator, of whom Whittier,
the great "Poet of Liberty" has said, with
kindly severity: 20
"Too honest or too proud to feign,
A love he never cherished,
Beyond Virginias border line
His patriotism perished
While others hailed in distant skies
Our eagles dusky pinion,
He ONLY saw our mountains bird
Stoop DER the Old Dominion"
Let the American citizen feel that wherever
may have been the place of his birth, when he
enters within our boundaries he will find with
us safe home and hospitable welcome. Thus
will our brethren from the great States OF the
North be encouraged to dwell among us. The
men whose skilled industry and eXhaustless
energies have buiIded mighty cities in the re-
mote wilderness will level our forests and re-
place them with blooming harvest fields, and
cover the spots now marked by the sad ruins OF
disastrous war with the enduring monuments
of their peaceful and civilizing arts. The mag
niicent and unfaiiing water power of our State,
which is now running to waste, will then DE
rapidly utilized, tolput in motion thousands OF
busy spindles and looms, in full view OF the
fields that are whitened by the plant that sup
plies the material for the fabric they weave:
The hardy yeomaury of Europerr whoY seek
abroad the liberty and prosperity denied them
at homeIw;ill also be woed to our shores, and
Vilfstseil the volume Of our industrial wealth:
-sIlwodid also appeal to those people of the
State. who were formerly the ruling class, to
cultivate and cherish Q loyal and devoted sentif
ment to the great Government of which we
form part, and to revere aud worship the flag
which it represents-a Government whose
mighty arm is ready to be uplifted in your de,
fense, at home and abroad, OH land and seaTa
flag which can no longer call the ensign of
power hostile to YOU The ilustrious soldier
who is now the Chief Magistrate of our great
Republic, and whose 4magnanimity in peace
should make the brave men who opposed him
feel that he deserved to triumph in war, desires
70 see all citizens of our State dwell together in
harmony-in obedience to just laws of their
own enactment-and he stands prepared to
foster by generous encouragement loyal sen
timent of devotion to our country, wherever 1t
may make itself manifest
To those of my fellow-ctizens with whom l
am affiliated in political sentiment and who
were pleased to designate me as the candidate
of their choice, and to accord me their sufirages
in the recent election, desire to say that in all
matters of public policy, so far as any effort Of
mine may avail;'I will regard the platform
which was framed by the representative: body
that placed me in nomination as ap authorita-
tive EXPOSITION of my official duty, which de-
mands and shall ever receive, my highest
respect. :, sA
ty TO communicate with you as to the reforms
and amendments in our system of State, which
Think are contemplated by the spirit and in
tention of this platform, by which ! hope we
will be governed, "a.
To those who deemed it proper to assail me
during the canvass with unparalleled acerbity,
I would say, in kindly spirit, that the obloqny
of their assaults has been met and 'answeredlat
the ballot box, and do not desire to revive the
recollection of their defeat, save by proving in
nv public conduct that their reproaches were
undeserved.
I trust that it will not be deemed iuappropri-
ate for me to refer, on an occasion like, the
present to an event which, following rapidly
the official announcement of the election of the
Republican candidates in the State and Nation,
has thrown a cloud upon even that splendid
triumph. / allude to the death of the Hon.
Horace Greeley, which occurred on the, evening
Of the 2sth ultimo, aud which may be consid-
cred as a national calamity.
History is but the record of the lives and
deeds of the few men who have been either the
benefactors or the scourges of their race. This
man was in his sphere illustrious above all his
con,peers in the Service rendered by him to the !
cause of human rights, during the past quarter
of a century. Standing at the head of great
journal. whose pages were disseminated as wide
" as the English language itself, he did more
than any of his contemporaries to mould the
opinions of the representative men of this gen.
Grafton, and to establish and vindicate the ben