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as limited share of discretion to the disburs-
ing agents as may be found compatible with
the public service. A strictresponsibility on
the part of all the agents of the Government
should be maintained, and peculation or de-
falcation visited with immediate expulsion
from Office, and the most condign punishment.
The public interest also demands that, if
any war has existed between the Govern
ment and the currency, it shall cease. Meas
ures of financial character having the sane
ton of legal enactment, shall be faithfully
enforced until repealed by the Legislative au-
thorty. But owe it to myself TO declare
that regard existing enactments as unwise
and impoltic, and in high degree oppres-
sive. shall promptly give my sanction to
any constitutional measure which, originate
restoration OF IA sound circulating medium, SO
essentially necessary to give confidence in all
the trapsactions Of life, to secure to industry
its just and adequate rewards, and to re- es-
tabllsh the public prosperity. In deciding
upon the adaptation OF any such measure to
the end proposed, as well as its conformity
to the Constitution, shall resort to the Fa-
theirs of the great Republican school for advice
and Instruction., to be drawn from their sage
views of our system of Government and the
light Of their ever glorious example.
The institutions under which we live, my
countrymen, secure each person in the perfect
| enjoyment of all his rights. The spectacle
is exhibited to the world of Government
deriving its powers from the consent of the
governed, and having impaired to it only SO
much power as is necessary for its success
full operation. Those who are charged with
lis administration should carefully abstain
from all attempts to enlarge the range Of pow
ers thus granted 10 the several departments OF
the Government, other than by an appeal to
the People for additional grants, lest by SO
| doing they disturb that balance which the
patriots and statesmen who framed the Com
sti,ution designed to establish between the
Federal Government and the States compos.
ing the Union. The observance of these
rules is cnjoined upon us by that feeling o.
reverence and affection which finds place
in the heart of every patriot for the preserva
ton OF union and the blessings Of union-fol
the good of our children and our chldren's
children, through countless generations. Al
opposite course could not fail to generate fac
lions, intent upon the qualification of thei
selfish ends; TO give birth to local and sec
tional jealousies, and to ultimate either ir
breaking asunder tho bonds of union, or ir
building up a central system, which would
inevitably end in a bloody sceptre and an iror
crown.
In conclusion, beg you to be assured thai
i Shall exert myself to carry the foregoing
principles into practice during my admins
tration Of the Government, and, confiding in
tho protecting care of an ever-watchful and
overriding Providence, it shall be my frs
and highest duty to preserve unimpaired the
free institutions under which we live, and
transmit them to those who shall succeed me
in their full force and vigor.
JOHN TYLER.
| WASHINGTON, April o, 1871.