The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-22
PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS.
An Eloquent Appeal to the Love Of
Country and Pride Of State.

We make the following extract from the
inaugural address of Lieutenant Governor
Richard B. Hubbard, of Texas, delivered
on the 18th of April last:
Recognizing, in its full force, the
changed relation of these States, and of
this State to the Federal Government,
and remitting to the tribunal of history
the causes which led in bitterness and
strife to these changes; and believing as
we do, that the political faith we espousc
has been handed down from the fathers !;
that it recognizes in broad and national
spirit the Constitution as it is, fidelity to
the Union, and obedience to its laws em-
bracing alike 100000 of people, ma
tive or foreign born, rich or poor, as our
common countrymcn, wherever floats, on
land or wave, the flag of our country in
this spirit to day we invite the earnest
cooperation of all parties and of all ra-
ces in our common purpose to develope
our resources, build up the shattered for
tunes, reclaim the waste places, and to
prepare the way for the coming of that
period in her history when Texas shall
take her place the peer, if not peerless,
among all the sisterhood of States. Our
children will live to see that day, as their
fathers even now catch glimpse of its
splendid dawning. We have but to be
true to our vows upon her altars to real
ize this rich fruition ere this generation
i. gathered to their fathers" Forty
wears ago scarcely fifty thousand popula-
ton, poor and friendless, constituted her
houshold, while to-day nearly two million
people are standing sentinel within her
gates. Then she had no commerce; only
now and then some strange sail of the
sea found its way into her waters. Now
she stands more than six hundred thou
sand bales of cotton to the worlds mar.
kets, and receives in return millions OF
treasure; she sends wheat and all the
other cereals even to Kansas and Missouri
and the great Northwest, and supplies in
her cattle trade ten millions of meat-stuffs
in value; she has now growing cities OF
the inland and marts on the sea, at whose
wharyes ships of foreign nations ride at
anchor, and our own richly-laden argo-
sizes; wealth and enterprise have built
and are building thousands of miles of
railway connecting US with distant States ;
digging ship channels even now to inland
ports through which ocean steamships
will come and go. A taxable property
of three hundred millions of yalue-a
right royal heritage of eighty millions OF
public lands, with untold mineral wealth
sleeping in their bosom, and a soil as
generous as ever rewarded the husband
man for his toil-with this and pictures
such as these of our real life, why should
we, on day and year like this, not re-
joice at the splendid strikes we have thus
far made, while only yet in the manhood
of our years? Such heritage and such
prospect impose grave responsibilities
upon each department of the Govern
ment. Material wealth alone consti-
tutes but small element of the great
ness of a State. Let us, therefore, con-
tinue to incalculate, as government, the
widest dissemination of intelligence
amoug the people, respect for public and
private virtue, and faithful obedience to
the laws. The executive, legislative and
judicial departments of the State govern
ment are utterly powcrlcss in ther exc
cution of the laws for the preservation OF
the public order and the punishment OF
crime unless fearlessly supported in their
high places. Codes and courts, laws and
Lawmakers, arc but things Of straw be-
fore the breath of the mob unless slls-
tanned by the virtue and iron hcroism OF
free people.