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Show 4.10 INAUGUHAL AND FAREW"ELL ADDRESSES. CJHlowmcnts from nature, ancl unpracticed in t11c 1 t. . . . . . ( II te' of ctrd admtnt tratwn, onght to l>c p ccu lhrh~ con c· r· • • • " J 10 11 ~ o 1l is OWil d.e fictCIICJe. S. In tlus conflict of ClliOtioilS , .n...J J I c1 a t.e aver, IS, that .It has been my fait hful study to collect my dut.y f~·om. a Just appreciation of every ci rcumsta11ce by wht ch It mtght be affected. A II I dare ho1)c 1·s tl. t ·r · • • 1 I 1 <l I Ill c.~cc:lttng tins ta k, I have bcc1~ too mu{'h swayed b; a g1 ntcful remembran ce of former utsbwccs . · , 0 1• bY an n ITe c-twnn. tc sensibility to this t t·an scelltlent j)roof of 11 f' , 1c ron J-dcncc of r:1y fcllow-citizcnR, and have t.li eucc too little con - sult ed lllJ~ Incapacity as well as di~in cl inatiou for the weighty and un~ncd ~<.~res ~cforc me, my .error will be palliat ed uy the motives '' l11ch.mt ·Jed me, ancl1ts consc'<Iucncc. be judged by my country, wrth some share of the partiality in whi<.:h thry ori ()'ina ted. Such being the impressions nnclcr whieh I hav · b l . e, 111 o e-c tellCC to the public suntmons rcrwircd to t11. . ' c prescu t sta-tion, It would be pccnliarly imJH'Oi>Cr to om·1 ~ • tl · fi • 111 l 11 11 S l'S t offi c u~l act, ~1y. fervent ~upplications to th at Almighty Being who r ~lcs 0\ el the untversc-who pre. iclcs in the councils of natiOns, and whose providential aids can su 1 h ' PP Y every . uma~ dc[i ct-that his benediction may co nsecrate to the hbcrtJes and ha_rpi~css of the people of the United States, a government mstitu tcd by thcmseh·cs cor· t l1 · 1' esc essentw 1 pnrposcs, and may enable CVCI'J in strument cmz)JO 'U . . t d . . . yc Ill 1 s; a ruimstr:ttwu to execute wi th success the fun ctions a1Iottcu to hJs charge. In tcnderi ng this homage to the Great .Author of every public and private rrood I . If l . o , llSSlll e mysc t tat 1t expre. scs YOur sentiments not l csL· tl "' •• ., 1n.11 my own ; nor those of my fello\-v-citizcns at Jar()'e 1 ~1 • 1 r , css " 1 an Cit le t·. :N.o !)~o pl c can be bound to acknowledge and aclorc the 111\'1 tble hand whi ch conducts t l1e a cr · f <lll'S o men ru o~·c than t!Jc people of the United States. Every step b; dw hich th.e y have advanced to tho clt ·'t r·'t ctcr of ."... J . l 1 11H epeit-ent natwn, seems to have bccu distinguished by some INAUGUHAL AND FAR~WEJJL .A.DI >H.ESSES. 411 token of prov id ential acrcney; alH1 in ~he i~n pot:Lunt rcvolutw. n · ·t "CCOtlll)!ishctl in the system of thet r uuttcu govcm- JU ~ "' · . • men t , 1111 1e t i"<l .ll Clll il deliberatiOn s, and volu• ntary consent o[ so rna ny di·s tinct communities, from whtch the event has reso I~1 1e d , cannot be cotnl)a.rcd wilh the means by which most governments have U('Cn cstahli~-;hcd, without some re-turn of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blct>sings whieh the JHtsL seem to prcHagc. These reflections, ariHing out of the prct>ent criHis, have forced themselves too sLron~ly Oil my mind to be suppressed. You will join wit.,h me, 1 tl'l~:-~t, in thi11king t_lmL there are none, under the influence of whteh the proceedi ng,· of u. new and free government can more auspiciously coutnleiiCe. By the article cstu.bli ·hing the executive department., it is mo.dc the duLy of the Pre ·idcnt "lo rcconltnclld to your consideration such measures as he shall judge ncecs ary and expedient." 'l'hc circumsLanc<'s uuder which I now meet you will acquit me from cntcriug inlo that subject, furth er than to refer to the great conHtiLutional charter uuder which you arc assemblecl; and which, in defining yom· powers, designates the objects to .which y.onr atten~ion is to ue given. It wi ll be more con ·tsLenL wtlh th~se ctrcu.mstanccs, and far more congenial with the feclmg.· whwh acluate ru e, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the trib ntc that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and Lhe patriotism, which adorn the clmracters selected to Jevisc and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications I behold the su rest pledges that, as on . ono side, no local prejudices or attachments, no scparat.c vtews or party animosities, will misdi rect tho comprchenstvc n.uJ eqnal eye which ought to watch over this great a semblagc of communities and interests ; so, on an other, that the foundations of our national pol icy will he laid in the pure and immutab le pl'in ciples of private morality; aml the pt·:cminencc of free government be exem plified by all the attn- |
