The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-01-27

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played, the Governor elect and re
tiring Governor entered under The
escort of Speakers Paine and Bono
and the joint committee on inaugu
ration, followed by the Justices ol
the Supreme Court. After prayer
by Rev. w. A. Nelson, of Edge6eld
Governor Brown delivered the fol
lowing valedictory address:
T4LEDICTORY or GOV JOHN C.
BROWN.
Fellow citizens Of the General AS
sembly: In obedience to the organic
laws, / am here to surrender the
trust with which | was invested by
the popular voice Having for two
consecutive terms been compliment
ed with the highest office in the gift
of the people, most cheerfully
yield both its honOrs and RESPONSE
bilities to a successor who is worthy
of the former, and equal to the lat
! ter. He has been chosen our Chief
Magistrate by an overwhelming pop
ular majority, and enters upon his
official duties under the most favor
able auspices. He brings with him
large experience from the other CO.
ordinate branches of the govern
ment, and | sincerely hope and be-
lieve his administration will be
crowned with honor to himself, and
the highest satisfaction TO a hopeful
and admiring constituency. But,
gentlemen, without your cordial CO.
operation and support any Execu-
tive officer would be powerless to
meet those reasonable hopes and
expectations.
Harmony between the Executive
and legislative departments being
SO essential to the prosperity and
well ll-being of the State, ] most earn
estly invoke your deliberate and
friendly consideration of such wise
and wholesome measures of State
policy, as he may recommend.
In dissolving this official relation,
| tender to the people, through you,
an expression of gratitude for their
confidence and general support,
with the assurance that, although l
may not at ali times have met pub
lie expectation, | have earnestly and
faithfully desired, above all other
considerations, to promote the gen
eral welfare.
Sustained by this conviction, l
confidently submit the record of my
official acts to the scrutiny of an i'm
partial public, and to you, the peo-
pies representatives without appre-
hension for the result.
Bound, as | am, and ever have
been, by every sentiment of devo-
tion to the interests of Tennessee, l
shall never fail, in all my future re-
lations to her, to contribute, by ev-
cry means in my power, to the pro-
motion of her greatness, the main
tenance of her honor, and the per-
petuatiOn unimpaired of her coDsti-
tutional integrity.
Gov. Brown having concluded,
Gov Porter delivered the following
inaugural address:
INA UG URAL or GOV JAMES d.
PORTER.
Senators and Representatives =
Called to administer the Executive
department of the government of
the State of Tennessee for the next
two years, enter upon the per-
formance of this high duty with q
full sense of my responsibility to
the people of the State. At no
period in the history of Tennessee
was there ever so much need for the
practice of wisdom and prudence.
The poverty of the people. the great
financial disorder, the peril to the
liberty of the citizen. the alarming
encroachments that are being made
on the rights and powers of the
States, combine to make the times
perilous and call for the exercise Of
frmne IS and intelligence on the part
of those charged with the admins
tration of public affairs. A great
political revolution in public senti-
ment has begun and is in progress
in Tennessee and in the other States
of the Union. What influence for
good or for evil it is to have on the
country remains to be seen; but our
duty is a plain one-to avoid the
errors that have brought disaster to
the best interests of the country.
Foremost among them is that spirit
of party which has gained such an
ascendency over the minds OF men
as has caused them to substitute
party for country, and make them |
seek party appreciation rather than
the approval and prosperity of the
country.
The people of Tennessee will
count him public benefactor who
will direct the popular energies to
useful pursuits--to a diversifcation |
of labor-to the encouragement of
the opening of mines,
the Improvement of agriculture, the
erection of school-houses, and es-
pecially is the great body of our
people anxious for an utter aboli-
tion of all local tealousies and ami
mosties, and for all the encourage
ment and perpetnation of q spirit of
among the people of |
ali the States of the Union.
Thanking the people of Tennes-
zee for the distinction they have
upon me. / will labor to
-cpay this generous confidence by |