The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-03
THE NEW GOVERNOR.

THE NEW GOVERNOR.
HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS, ASIT WILL
BE SPOKEN TO-DAY.
He Pledges aimself Anew to an Honest
and Impartial Administration In tho
Interest OF the Whole People.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TIE NEws.l
COLUMBIA, Monday, Dec. 2, midnight.
1 have succeeded III In obtaining a copy of the
inaugural of the Governor elect, F. J. Moses,
Jr., which is now in type. The address is ex.
pected to be delivered at two P. n. tomorrow,
the hour fixed for the Inauguration, and as
the readers of TIE NEWS will be anxious to
hear what their new Executive has to say at
the threshold of his administration, I send 1t
to you In full:
T~sloo-0aisens of the Ssaate and House of
Representatives.:
You have entered upon the sixth session OF
the General Assembly since the establishment
Of free government In the State Of South
Carolina.
.yIt.should be with us a source Of profound
gratitude to Divine Providence that you m,et
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 labor5 Of our husband
men with abundant fruits, while all the varied
forms and arts of Industry are being prose-
cnted With hopeful energy amid apparently
universal peace and order, under our happy
system of government, which guarantees and
maintains liberty regulated by law.
We have been mefclfully exempt from the
great and disastrous fires which, during the
past year, have swept over 30 many portions
OF our common country, consuming to ashes
the garnered wealth of years, aud reducing
the rich and the poor to the same level of In
dIgent suffering.
Let us endeavor. fellow citizens, TO deserve
these signal blessings by a faithful and con-
scIentlons discharge Of all the important
trusts reposed In US by the people. EEIa
In enterIng upon the duties Of the ftgRofice
with which I have been vested by the gener-
Gus favor of my fellow-citizens. my deep
sense Of gratitude to them for the honor con-
erred by their free SURFACES is associated
with a painful conviction of the grave re-
apsnaibility which has been imposed upon ne
by their choice.
Twill endeavor to discharge my whole duty
to the whole people Of the State. To this end
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 ia the Commonwealth of South Caro-
lima. 49,
While I shall not forget that, as a candidate,
represented In my person the Union Repub-
lican party, whose benefcent 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, I trust that I
may always remember that, as the Chief Mag
istrate of the State, I represent all the people
Of South Carolina, and that the lines which
limit my zeal for their interests must, In
honor, be c~o-extensive 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 sllIts solemn sanctity fresh upon my lips,
pledge my best efforts to insure that during
,-- -a-tnlckuottnn gkha Tnnn poo umao1th. ahQll
suffer no detriment."
Gentlemen of the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatlves, let US re-dedlcate ourselves to the
great work and duty of the hour. Lst us
prove to the world, by the enactment oil just
laws and their impartial administration, that
the highest private liberty here Is consonant
with the greatest public good.
Our people are happy In the possession Of a
bountlful soil and q genial climate. Here the
varied products Of temperate and troplc zones
grow side by side, while our streams are fash
ing In the sunlight of a perpetual spring. The
IMPERIAL plant, whose leecy fbres enter into
the raiment of civilized man throughout the
! globe, and whose production presses heavily
upon the very balance wheels OF the CONNER
clai exchanges OF the world, has here Its ma
tive home and most luxurlant growth. Yet
the face OF the emigrant Is turned away from
our State, and, capital, which sets labor In mo-
ton and creates the manufactures which con-
tribute to the comfort and the elevation OF
man, shrinks back from US, as If the seals OF
+ pastilence were broken, and It's vlals emptied
!, ont, upe1 this beautiful land OF ours. Hence,
J nearly three-tourths OF our vast territorial
5 area, embracing not less thar thtrty-six thous-
! andsqusre miles, lie fallow to-day.
This disastrous result Is largely due to the
fell spirit OF political Intolerance, which has
been manifested during the past five years,
by the former governing class In South Caro-
Tina, who still, in great part, represent the
educated intelligence and landed property of
!, the State.
That Intolerance, which was at first sue
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