Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-12-07

opinion, which may respectively characterize
them Mutual iorhearance, respect, and non-in-
reference IN our personal action as citizens, and
enlarged exercise of the most liberal principles of
comfy IN the public dealings Of State with State
whether IN legislation or in the execution of laws
are the means toperpetuaie that confidence and
fraternity, the decay Of which mere political
union, on vast a scale, could not long survive.
In still another point of view, is an important
practical duty suggested by this consideration of
the magnitude of dimensions. to which our poIit-
zeal system, with IFS corresponding machinery of
government, is so rapidly expanding " it'll in
creased vigilance does il require US TO cultivate
the cardinal virtues of public integrity and purity.
Public affairs ought TO be SO conducted that a
settled conviction shall pervade the entire Union
that nothing short of the highest tone and stand
ard OF public morality marks every part Of the
administration and legislation of the general gov
eminent. Thus will the federal system, what
ever expansion live and progress may give 1t,
continue more and more deeply rooted in the love
and confidence Of the people
That wise economy, which is as far removed
from parslmonJ as from corrupt and corruptng
eXtrayagance.- that that single regard for the
public GOOD, which will trown upon all attempts
TO approach the treasury with nsidons projects
of private interest cloaked under public pretexts,
tilt aouiiu iisldl WHICH, IN the
legislative department, guards against the dan
gerous temptations incident TO OVERLOOKING rev.
enue, and, in the executive, maintains an un-
sleeping watchinlness against the tendency of all
national expenditure 10 extravaganza while they
are admitted elementary political duties, may,
trust, be deemed properly adverled to and
urged, in view of the more impressive sense of
that necessity, which is directly suggested by the
considerations now presented.
Since the adjournment of Congress, the Vice
President of the United States has passed from
the scenes Of earth, without having entered upon
the duties of the station to which he had been
called By the voice his conntrymen
Having occupied. almost continuously for more
than thirty years, in one or the other of The
two Houses of Congress. and having, by his sin
gular purity and wisdom, secured unbounded con-
fdence and universal respect, his failing health
was watched by the nation with painful socitude.
His loss to the country, under all the crcumstan
ces, has been Justly regarded as irreparable
In compliance of the act Ct Congress OF March
2, 1858, the oath of office was administered to
him on the oath of that month, at Aradne estate,
near Matanzas, in the islands of Cuba; but his
strength gradually Declined and was hardly suf-
hcient TO enable him to return to his home in Ala
bama, where on the eighteenth day of April, in
the most calm and peaceful way, his long and
emlnenty useful career was terminated.
Entertaining unlimited confidence in yonr INTEL
gent and patriotic devotion to the public interest
and being conscious of no motives on nv part
which are not nseperable from the honor and adj
vancemeni of my country, hope it may be my
privilege to deserve and secure, not only your
cordial co operation in the great measures, bat
also those relations of mutual confidence and le-
gard, which tits always so desirable to cultivate
between members of coordinate branches of the
government FRANKLIN PIERCE
Washington, D. c., December 5, 1858.