The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-20

the good wishes that he expressed,
and said:
"Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Joint Convention: Entering upon the
discharge of the duties of the high Of
flee to which the people of Tennessee
have chosen me, | appreciate the honor
they confer and the great responsibility
they impose.
"Knowing that you, as Legislators,
have been chosen on account of your
known intelligence and tried patriot
ism to aid in giving to the State an hon
est, faithful, business-like government,
and that the people of the State are
with us in every effort in this direction,
| am lead to hope that our exertions for
government will be crowned with sue
cess.
ave have pledged the people that cer-
tain reforms shall be inaugurated; that
where salaries are excessive, they shall
be reduced; that where officers are un-
necessary, they shall be abolished. A
painstaking administration of all the
States affairs has been promised Let
us go forward and faithfully and fear
lessly fulfill every pledge and keep
every promise. There should be officers
enough in the States service to run it
successfully. They should be paid a
fair and reasonable compensation for
| their services-no more, no less.
"a great responsibility has devolved
on this country and this generation.
After thousand Of years of despotism,
and innumbe berable failures on the part
of mankind struggling to establish, and
maintain liberty, our fathers made a
last stand for human rights and free
government, when they declared inde-
pendence and set in motion the mar
velous machinery of this government.
| They devised local self-g0vern
home rule for the States, and fortified
them with a written constitution. Fri.
"rhe Constitution defines the powers
of the General Government, and de-
clares the rights of the States and the
| citizens.
"This Government has been said to
be: AN indestructible union of indie
structible States 1t has proven
a wondrous success. 1t has attained a
power and influence in 100 years that
no other form of Government ever at
tanned in five centuries. Under this
system, the General Government has its
field of exclusive jurisdiction and in its
field, when clearly defined, its authority
should not be disputed. The State has
its field of exclusive Jurisdiction, its re-
served rights, which should not be in
vaded. The citizen has its "inalienable
rights which no Government, State OF
national, can rightly infringe or take
away. For him and his well being all
Governments, both State and national
are created. Without they serve the
citizen, and improve his condition
they have no excuse for existence.
Through this dual form OF Govern
ment by states and nation has been en-
trusted to this last and most important
effort ever made to maintain the free
dom of man. The hopes of mankinC
hang upon our success. The despo
tisms of the world would rejoice at ou
failure, "Happy, free America" Tn,
lightnings of heaven have yielded tC
our philosophy. Let not the tempta
tions of earth silence our patriotism
In all that we 90, the good of the State
should be our first consideration.
"In the greatness of its natural re
sources, Tennessee is unequaled by an,
other State in the union. Our marbl
is used on more than one continent anC
is unsurpassed. Our iron is not onl,
used in every State, but is shipped
abroad and goes to the uttermost part o
the earth. Our phosphates are so ricl
, and accessible that they have causei
those in many other localities to be eS
cluded from the markets of this an
other countries, and are shipped t
. Europe to restore the waste place
: their. Our cotton and tobacco are ais
,, successfully exported, and hence ar
, not dependent alone upon the HON
market. In Tennessee is the only spC
in the world where coking coal, irO
a ore, limestone, rich corn fields, whet
a fields, fine forests, water transpOrtatio
and railroad transportation are all foun
/ in radius of fifteen miles So variou
. are our resources that if the State wei
!, walled in, it could produce everythin
, essen tial to mans comfort and pro
"a perity, and could maintain the highet
civilization without the introduction I
i anything from the outside. But OF
: policy should not be one of exclusion {
r isolation. On the contrary, by our law
> our government and acts, we should {
n everything that may legitimately
done to encourage outside capital
n come in and help develop these r
a. sources.
= Nor are we remarkable alone for ol
!, material wealth. There IL eyerythiT
a in the past history of the State, of whiC
n To be justly proud.
"In the struggle for Independence.
y Kings Mountain, Sewer and his col
Il patriots from Tennessee, with q cou
+ age and an intrepidity unsurpassed
= the worlds history, turned the tide
~ the revolution from defeat and disast
Y to glorious victory.
AT New Orleans, when the freedo
n OF the seas hung in the balsnce, wh'
a our Capitol aud Executive Mansion
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