The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-16 00:00:00

AMEIaCA.

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.

„WAsHiNcoroN, IMAttort 4..—This day at twelve
e.'clock TWOMM JEFFEI4SON, President of the
'United States, took the Oath of Office ; and deli-
vered the following inaugural Speech, in the Senate
Chamber, in the presence of the Members of the
two Houses, and a large toneourse of Citizens:
” Proceeding, fellow.citizens, to that qualifica.
tion which the Constitution requires, before my
entrance on the charge again cmilerred on me, it
is my duty to express the deep sense I entertain
of this new proof of confidence from my fellow-
citizens at lye, and the zeal with which it inspireS
roe so to conduel myself as may best satisfy their
just expeaations.
" On taking this station on a former occasion,
declared: the principles on which I believed it my
duty to administer the affairs of our Commonwealth.
My conscience ters me that I' have on every occa.
sion acted up to that declaration according to its
obvious import, and according to the understanding
of every candid mind.
" In the transadion of your foreign affairs we
have endeavoured to cultivate the friendship of all
nations, and especially of those with which we have
the most important relations. We have done jus.
Lice on all occasions, favour where favour was law.
ful, and cherished mutual interests and intercourse
on fair and equal terms; we are firmly convinced,
and we ad on that conviction, that with nations,
as with individuals, our interests, soundly calcu.r
lated, will ever be found inseparable horn our moral
duties. And history bears witness to the fsa, that
jest nation is trusted or) its word, when recourse
is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.
" At home, fellow-citizens, you best know
whether we have done well or ill, The suppres.
:pion .of
unnecessary dikes, of useless establish:
, meats and, expences, enabled us to discontinue our
internal taxes. These, covering our land with
officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions,
had already began that process.of domiciliary vexa.
Lion, w hien, once entertained, is scarcely to tie
febtrained from teaching successively every article
of produce and of propel ty, If, among these taxis,
some minor ones fell, which had not
,been,incon.
venieni, it was because their amount would not
have paid the officers who collected them, and be.
cause if they had any merit, the State Authorities
might adopt them instead of others less approved.
" The remaining revenue, on the consumption of
foreign articles, is paid chiefly by those who can
ifrord to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
Being colleded on our sea-board and frontiers only,
and incorporated with the transactions of our mer.
cantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the
plide of an American to w,k, what farmer, what
mechanic, what labourer, ever sets a tax gatherer
of the United States ?---These contributions en.
us to support the current expences of the Go.
veroment, to fulfil contracts with foreign nations,
to extinguish the native right of soil within our
limits, to extend those limits, and to apply such
a surplus to our public debts as places at a short
day their final redemption; and that redemption
cnce tfirlted, the revenue thereby liberated, may,
by a just 'reoartitiou am,lng the States, and a cur.
re;rwdent amendment of the Constitution, be ap.
its rtrie of to titers, canals, roads,
;,rte;, maeulatlores, education, and other great ob.
zo‘.ts within ekeir State. Its time of war, if in-
justice_, by our selves or others must sometimes
produce war, increased as the same revenue will
lie by increased population and consumptiab, and
aided by otlitr resources reserved for that crisis,
'it may oncet within site year all the expences of
tios, year, without encroaching on the rights of
twine winerations, by burthening them with the
ciehrs ot' the past. War will then be but a sus.
t,..nsion of earful works, and a teturn to a state
of peace, a return to the progress of improve.:
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" I have said, fellOw.eitizens, that the income
reserved•had enabled us tb extend our limits ; fiat
that extension may, possibly pay for itself before
tee are called,on, and in tlie mean time may keep
down the accruing interest. In all events it will
rephee the advances we shall hate made, Lknow
`that the acquisition of Louisiana- has been. ditap.
retried by some, from a candid apprehension that
.the. enlargenient of our territory may endanger
its union ; but who con limit ihe extent to which
ihe 'federative, principle may operate effeflively
later our assoCiation, the less will it be shaken
by local passions, and in any view, is it not better
that the opposite bank of the MissisSippishould be
settled by nut own brethren aed children, than by
r;trangers of another family ?—With which shall we
be most likely to live in harMony and Identity in.
tercourse
" In matters of religion, I have considered, that
,fts free este teise is placed by the Constitution in.
&pendent of the powers of the general govern.
merit. I ..
have therefore undertaken, on no peed
treprteeribe the religious exercises suited to
it ; but have left them as the Constitution found
:Liter, lie der the dire4lion yr disci, line of the SW.
nr Citureli Authorities acknowledged by the ieveral
religious societies, • •
The aboriginal infiabliarivi 9f these countries
I e„ee molded lilt the clirnrrliSti 141 iOn then his,•
too y inspires. Endowed with the faculties and the
ritf,nis ini!ti, breathing ardent love of liberty
indet eittlenee, and octupying a country which
left them no deiire but to be undisturbed, the Stream
sit overflieving' population from othee regions di.'
itOcti itself on ;hose shores. Without power to
divert, or habits to contend against ir, they have
peen Overwhelmed br the current, or driven before
reduced within limits too earrow.for the
hunter state, hurniniity enjoins to teach them
itgliculture a.nd the domestic am ; to encourage-
them to that indusiiy which alone can enable them
to maintain their elace in existence, and to prepare
dicier in time for that state id society, which, to
bodily comforts, adds the improvement of the mind
cod morals. We have therefore liberally furnished
theM with the implements or hitNbandry abd house.
hold cse : we have placed among them instrutiors in
the tarts of first necessity; and they are
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