Abolish Plutocracy If You Would Abolish Poverty.

I Leave The Governor's Office Next Week, And With It Public Life[which] Has Been On The Whole A Pleasant One. But For Ten Years And Over My Salaries Have Not Equalled My Expenses, And There Has Been A Feeling Of Responsibility, A Lack Of Independence, And A Necessary Neglect Of My Family And Personal Interests And Comfort, Which Make The Prospect Of A Change Comfortable To Think Of.

In Sumter And Other Counties [in South Carolina] The Whites Are Resorting To Intimidation And Violence To Prevent The Colored People From Organizing For The Elections. The Division There Is Still On The Color Line. Substantially All The Whites Are Democrats And All The Colored People Are Republicans. There Is No Political Principle In Dispute Between Them. The Whites Have The Intelligence, The Property, And The Courage Which Make Power. The Negroes Are For The Most Part Ignorant, Poor, And Timid. My View Is That The Whites Must Be Divided There Before A Better State Of Things Will Prevail.

The Study Of Tools As Well As Of Books Should Have A Place In The Public Schools. Tools, Machinery, And The Implements Of The Farmshould Be Made Familiar To Every Boy, And Suitable Industrial Education Should Be Furnished For Every Girl.

It Will Be The Duty Of The Executive, With Sufficient Appropriations For The Purpose, To Prosecute Unsparingly All Who Have Been Engaged In Depriving Citizens Of The Rights Guaranteed To Them By The Constitution.

Disunion And Civil War Are At Hand; And Yet I Fear Disunion And War Less Than Compromise. We Can Recover From Them. The Free States Alone, If We Must Go On Alone, Will Make A Glorious Nation.