The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-03-07

Gus uutleS ulat nave Deen appointed 10 perform, by
the choice of free people, | avail myself of this
customary and solemn occasion, to express the graft
ude which their confidence inspires, and to acknowl-
edge the accountability which my situation enlons.-
While the magnitude of their interests convinces me
that thanks be adequate to the honor they have
conferred, it admonishes me that the best return
can make, is the Jealous dedication of my humble
abilities to their service and their good
AS the instrument of the Federal Constitution, it
will devolve me, for stated period, to execute the
laws of the United States to superintend their for
eign and their confederate relations to manage their
revenue; to command their forces and, by commu-
ncatons to the Legislature to watch over and to pro-
mote their interests generally And the principles OF
action by which shall endeavor to accomplish this
circle of duties. it is proper for me briefly to
plain.
In administering the laws of Congress, shall keep
steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent
of the Executive power, trusting thereby to discharge
the functions Of my office without transcendng its a-
thory. With foreign nations it will be my study to
preserve peace, and to cultivate friendship on fair and
honorable terms and in the adjustment of any DIFF
ference that may exist arise to exhibit the forhear
ance becoming powerful nation, rather than the
sensbllity belonging to gallant people.
In such measures as | may be called on to pursue,
IN regard to the rights of the separate States hope
to be animated by proper respect for those sover
eign members of our Union, taking care not TIC con-
found the powers they have reserved to themselves
with those they have granted to the confederacy.
The management of the public revenue-that
searching operation in all governments-is among the
most delicate and important trusts in ours and it
will, of course, demand no inconsiderable share of
my official solicitude. Under every aspect in which
it can be considered it would appear that advantage
must result from the observance of strict and faith
full economy. This shall aim at the more anxiously
both because it will facilitate the exnguishment OF
the national debt-the unnecessary duration of which
is incompatible with real independence because
1t Will counteract that tendency to public and private
prohlgacy, which profuse expenditure of money by
the government is but too apt to engender. Power
full auXares to the attainment of this desirable end,
are to be found in the regulations provided by the
wisdom OF Congress, for the specific appropriation Of
public money, and the prompt accountability of pub
lie officers.
With regard to proper selection Of the subjects
of impost, with view to revenue, it would seem to
me that the spirit of equity caution and compromise,
in which the constitution was formed requires that
the great interests of Agriculture Commerce and
Manufactures, should be equally favored and that,
perhaps the only exception to this rule, should con-
slst IN the peculiar encouragement of any products of
either of them that may be found essential to our ma
tional independence.
Internal improvement, and the diffusion of know-
edge, so far as they be promoted by the constt
tiona acts of the Federal Government, are of high
importance
Considering standing armies as dangerous to free
governments in time of peoce shall not seek to en-
large our present establishment, disregard that
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