Year: 1870




Forcbly impressed with these ideas, call upon
all leeislators, and upon all other good citizens
and especially upon the conductors OF
the public press - the ever faith
ful sentinels of q free pcople--to aid in giving
that tone to public sentiment which shall purify
our State, and relieve her from the rcproach Of
even countenancing those who would make a
traffic of their offices In violation OF their obl-
cations. Look to 1t well and closely, fellow
citizens, and bsgin at once to teach your SCR
wants that the ''public Will" must be obeyed, and
that the 'public veal 10 the first object to be
attained In free government If you permit
Spectators to enrich themselves out of the
public treasury, and at the same time to corrupt
the law-making branch of the Government, you
pave the way to anarchy, you set the example
which tempts to crime, and offer to the world
an evidence. most conclusive, that sclf-govern-
ment 10 failure. 4-U


Owing to the many efforts made on the part
of free traders for the abolishment of the natu-
raj and wholesome protection now afforded to
our home industry and to labor, consider IL Q
subject which claims q portion of our time and
attention. II our natural industry and natural
productions represented by thousands of facto-
ries, mines, and other sources of labor, are to be
preserved, there should beno reduction of duties
which shall enable the underpaid and over
States with the product of their mines and
workshops at the cost of our destruction The
articles thus admitted would undersell the pro-
ducts of our artisans at our very doors, and





similar causes. This will throw out of employ
ment thousands of industrious men, and entail
ruin upon them and their families, merely for
the benefit and aRgrandizementof foreign manu-
facturers and capitalists. AS soon rs our indus
trial arms are paralyzed and competition Is de-
stroyed the monopolist can command his own
price, and IL Is thus clear that the policy of
free-trade can never permanently benefit any
country that will sanction Its adoption. I'm
PEELED by every feeling of interest," humanity,
and justice for our artisans and laborers, we
should unhesitatingly set our faces against this
heresy. We should, therefore, not only earnestly
iegslate for the benefit OF capital, but for the
toiling sons and daughters of our country. 1t
should be our constant effort to improve their
social condition, to advance their intellectual
status, and above all to shield them from the
destitution which is threatened by the enemies
of protection to our industrial pursuits. 7


In my several messages to the Legislature
have taken occasion to refer to a subject which
regard as of paramount importance to the
prosperity and even the stability of our Govern
ment. No nation can long exist that attempts
to violate any of Its obligations The most
prominent among these is the faithful payment
of all its indebtedness. No good reason can be
given for the repudlation of single farthing. /
said in my message of January, 1868, 1.-THE
people of Pennsylvania, ever true to the Union,
and unswerving in their determination to pre-
serve. It's honor, integrity, and perpetuity, are
proud and free to assert the sacredness of the
national debt, and that it's ultimate pay
ment in full must be secured" In my mes
sage of 1859 l called attention to the same
subject in these words:-"The voice of
Pennsylvania, RS well as that of majority of
the States, has at the ballot-box proclaimed
to the world that all our national Indebtedness,
no matter how heavy the burden, will be paid
according to the letter and spirit of the agree
ments made and entered into ut the time the
debt was contracted; aud that in this, as in all
honor must and shall be preserved These sem
timents, SO clearly expressed, have taken fire.
quent occasion to reiterate, and it affords me
great satisfaction to observe that many who
have heretofore been hostile to OF silent on this
most important subject, are becoming warm In
their advocacy of the principles here enun-
ciated. tsFltf t u fTi,c-l 1iflf f.


Those who saved this Government from the
destruction designed by treason, are they who
will perpetuate II as q blessing for future gene
rations. All that Is asked of the people Is to
strengthen and uphold the hands of the men
who haye been called to do the work of recon
spirit In which 1t has been begun by the present
National administration, we will have Govern
ment and q country mighty in their munifcence,
glorious In their prosperity. fn


The preservation of the peace and quiet OF
our country, maintaining unsullied our national
honor, and the harmony of the Union, are among
our highest duties. Let us encourage every
branch of home industry, advance the true inte-
rests of moral, physical, and intellectual labor,
and reaching forward to the prize of the mani
fest destiny Of our glorious Commonwealth we
may hope for her increasing prosperity, and,
above all, for the smiles of an approving Provi-
dence. rsb o.ig a-lq .a'asl 81 ew


i earnestly invoke continuance of the bless
ings and favors which we, as people, have
long enjoyed, that Pennsylvania may be ever
ready to extend her sympathies to those
struggling for liberty, to succor the helpless
exile, and be an asylum to the persecuted and
oppressed; and thus forever identify herself with
the cause of equal rights and with the interests
Of universal freedom, justice, and humanity.
Then can we with truth and pride proclaim,
''Long live the Commonwealth, whose guiding
principles are found in the wotto of our State,
Virtue, Liberty, and Independence"


Upon the termination of the ceremonies Of in
auguration at the Capitol the Governor was es-
corted to his residence by the Chief Marshal and
his aids, and the procession was dismissed
national salute was fred from the Capitol. ,,,i