The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-29
ILLINOIS AND THE CARoLINAs
ADDRESSES OF MIR. KI,IBALL AND
GOV. VANCE.

ADDRESSES OF MIR. KIMBALL AND
GOV. VANCE.
The most notable feature of the State
Fair recently held in Columbia was the
captivating addresses of Hon. II. P.
Kimball and Governor Vance. Mr..
Kimball, a representative of the Winnie
bago Agricultural Society, of Illinois,
was first introduced, who spoke as fol-
lows:
When Governor Hampton honored the
people of our State with his visitation as
their orator and guest, he brought his
speech in his head. Compelled by the
laws of necessity, have brought mine in
my pocket As came Southwark in
the cars, anticipating that your good
people would invite me to say something,
I wrote down o few incoherent ideas and
statements. Fresh from my farm, with
my hands calloused with recent toll, and
coming among people with whom ora
tory is natural gift, you will certainly
have patience for few moments, if for
no other reason than that am the old
defender of your honor and the truest
friend that South Carolina has in the
North.
The present is most auspicious occa-
sion. The motives which have prompted
this exchange of fraternal feeling are in
spired by no party considerations. We
meet together in q philantropic spirit,
turning our backs upon the memories of
bloody conflict, and clasping our hands
| in a united effort to make our country
more glorious and permanent in the fu-
ture. Illinois, that empire of the prairie
States, whose vast surplus of agricultural
products constitutes her the cornucopia
of the West, sends her greetings to South
Carolina, and invites her cooperation in
the cultivation of those sentiments so
eminently calculated to make the citi.
zens of this republic prosperous aud
homogeneous people. Sectional agita-
ton has been the desperate strategy of
an ultra school of politicians, who, for
personal aggrandizement, (haying never
confronted the perils of the battle held,)
have sown broadcast over the land the
dragons teeth of alienation and strife.
There exists numerous class of dema-
gogues throughout the land, who ignore
the principles of our glorious constitu-
tion and intentionally disregard the fun
damental truth of political economy,
that peace and tranquility are the essen
tial conditions of nations prosperity.
With impious hands they tear open the
wounds of discord which were we'll nigh
healed, stir up the elements of dissension,
and, preferring their own advantage to
! the nations welfare, they rely upon
the prejudices of the ignorant to secure
| for them official patronage and power.
This continual repetition ofsectional ami
mosities by party politicians tends to dis
tract the public mind, disturb our busi-
ness relations and check the diffusion of
capital. 1t is everywhere the ruling SEN
timent of the people, despite the ambi-
tions of politicians, that the progress
and perpetuity of our nation, in the
mutual development of its vast industrial
and commercial interests, must depend
on the united and loyal sentiment of the
citizens of the whole country. The pow
er and influence Of sectional agitators are
rapidly dying away. The peoplein their
majesty are rising above the incentives
| of revenge to igher and broader plane
of general amnesty and disinterested pa
triotism. Standing upon the bright
threshold of this new era, we everywhere
behold the marshaling of our nations
industrial hosts beneath the white BAN
ner of reconciliation and peace. From
every foundry and workshop in the land
we catch in our eager and listening ears
the pulsations of those mighty forges,
forever chanting the anthem of q higher
civilization, as they beat our useless
swords into plowshares and reconvert the
enginery of war into implements of hus-
bandry and mechanical industries. From
| the bosom of our mother earth, where
our dead heroes lie buried, our associated
industries must gather the materials to
| repair the desolations of war.
The peaceful pursuits of agriculture
are exempt from those distracting cares
| that infest all other departments of bus
iness and it is our Lesson of experience
| that it is the best adapted to the full
development of the possibilities of the
race.
congratulate the South Carolina State
Board of Agriculture on the maintenance
of permanent industrial organization.
Such an association, with an annual ex-
position of your manufactures and natu.
raj products, constitutes the text book OF
your capabilities as people, in which
strangers may read the lessons of your
achievements and progress.
congratulate you most cordially upon
| the public tranquility that reigns within
| your borders; the steady revival of your
industries, and more especially upon
| your enfranchisement from that horde of
political conspirators who, under the
livery of the civil service and an incor-
ruptible national party, ~ plundered
your treasury, bribed your representa-:
tives, impaired your public credit, and
with unblushing efrontery outraged
every principle of justice and honor.
The condition of South Carolina under
the usurpasions of carpet-bag misrule
finds striking analogy in that legend OF
classical mythology which represents
Prometheus enchaned to Mount Cauca-
sus by Jupiter, and whose punishment
was aggravated by rayenous vulture,
that descended upon him and devuured
! MS liver, WHICH grew III tue hiSh. 40
much as it was consumed in the day.
The league of the carpes-bag dynasty
has, for decade of years, constituted
the political vultures of the South, who
have preyed upon her resources, devoured
her substance, crippled her industries
and loaded her with unparalleled bur-
dens of taxation and debt. Retribution,
personifed by one of the ancient Furies,
armed with scourge of venomous scor-
pions in one hand and battery of quiv-
ering lightnings in the other, should
pursue these infamous miscreants, fugi-
tives from justice, who are profaning the
sanctuary of our national capital, and
drive them from the boundaries of civil
ization. South Carolina stands upon the
same proud eminence with Illinois and
Massachusetts in the vindication of her
rights of self-government and her consti-