Year: 1872

stitution and laws of our common
country, and your destiny is bound up
with theirs-for good or evil-in oil
coming time. Rise above that spirit
of sectiopalism which has so long been
the dark stain on the cscutcheon of
our most distinguished statesmen,
and which marred the noble oharac.
ter and narrowed tho intellectual
range of the great Virginia Senator,
of whom Whittier, the "Poet of Liber
ty," has suid, with kindly severity:


"Too honest or two proud to feign,
4 love ho never cherished,


Beyond Virginia's border line


Ills patriotism pcrished.


While others hailed in distant skies


Our Eagles dusky pinion,


lie only saw our mountain bird


Sloop o'cr Old Dominion"


Let the American citizens fecl
that wherever may have boen tho
place of his birth, when he enters
within our boundaries, he will find
with US a safe home and hospitable
welcome. Thus will our breth rem
from the great States of tho North
be encouraged to dwell among us.
The men whose skilled industry
and cxhaustless energies have build
! ed mighty cities in the remote wilder
ncss, will level our forests and replace
them with blooming harvest fields,
and cover the spots now marked by
the said ruins Of disastrous war with
tho enduring monuments of their
| peace and civilizing arts. The mag
nificent and unfailing water power of
our State, which is now running to
waste, will then be rapidly utilized,
to put in motion thousands of busy
spindles and looms, in full view of the
fields that are whitened by the plant
that supplies the material for the
fabric they weave. The hardy
yeomanry of Europe, who seek abroad
the liberty and prosperity denied
them at home, will also be woocd to
our shores, and will swell the volume
of our industrial wealth.


| would also appeal to those people
of the State who wero formerly the
ruling class, to cultivate and cherish
u loyal and devoted sentiment to the
great Government of which we form
a p'rt. md TO rauarn ond wnrship ihn
flag which represents it-a Govern.
ment whose mighty arm is ready to
de uplifted in your defence, at home
and abroad, on land and on sea-a
flag which you can no longer call
the ensign of ii power hostile to you.
The illustrious soldier who is now the
Chief Magistrate of our great re.
public, and whose magnanimity in
peace should make the brave mon who
opposed him feel that he deserved to
triumph in war, desires to see all
citizens Of our State dwell together
in harmony-in obedience to just laws
| of their own enactment-and he stands
prepared to foster, by generous Ell.
coWagement, loyal sentiment Of de-
| votion to our country, wherever it
may make itself manifest.


TO those of my fellow. citizans with
whom [ affiliate in political sentiment
and who were pleased to designate
me as the candidate Of their choice,
and to accorL me their suffragcs in
the recent election, I desire to say
that in all matters of public policy,
so far as any effort Of mino may
avail, I will regard the platform
which was framed by the representa-,
tive body that placed me in nomina-
!iou as an authoritive exposition of
my official duty, which dcmaads, and
sball ever receive, my highest respect.
shall avail myself of the earliest
opportunity to communicate with you
as to reforms and amendments in
our system of State Government
which | think are contemplated by
tho spirit and intention Of this plat
torn, by which I hope we will be
governed.


TO those who deemed it proper to
assail me, during the canvass, with
unparalleled aoerbity, would say,
in kindly spirit, that she obloquy of
their assaults has been mot and
answered at the ballot.box, and I do
not desire to revive the recollection
of their defeat, save by proving, in my
public conduct, that their reproachcs
were undeservcl.


trust that it will not be deemed
inappropriate for me to refer, on an
occasion like the present, to an event
which, following rapidly tho official
announcement of the election of the
Republican candidates in the State
and nation, has thrown cloud upon
even that splendid triumph. al
lude to the death Of the Hon. Horace
Greeley, which occurred on the cvon.
ing Of the goth ultimo, and which may
be considered as a national calami-
ty.


History is but the record OF the
lives and deeds of tho few mon who
have been other the benefactors or
the scourges of their raco. This man
was in his sphere illustrious above
most of his co-laborers in the service
rendered by him to the cause of hu..