The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-03-15

WASHINGTON, March -. The inaugural
address Of General Pierce fills column and a
quarter Of the Union.
it commences with the regrets of the Pres
ident on being elected when others more COM
petent might have been selected for the office.
The President expresses his gratitude for the
manifestations of kindness which he has re-
ceived alludes to the increased responsibility
of the office consequent upon the increase of
our territory speaks of the past history of our
country and of Washington's revolutionary
struggles, &c; of our peaceful relations with
all countries, and invites their continuance.
He promises that his Administration shall
leave no blot upon the past fair record of our
country advises a comprehensive policy al
ludes to the complicated European systems of
Government, and extols our simple American
system above all others, as combining more
perfectly the elements of happiness. States
that the experienced opinion of soldiers is adj
verse to standing armies, but he advises pro-
lection to military science.
Having no implied engagements to ratify.
he has no rewards to bestow, nor resentments
TO remember, nor any personal wishes to con-
suit in selections for official stations. He will
fulfill his difficult and delicate trust, admitting
no motive to be worthy either of his charac-
ter or position which does not contemplate an
efficient discharge Of duty and the best inter
ests of the country.
The president acknowledges his obligation to the
masses Of his countrymen, and to them alone.
Higher objects than personal aggrandizement
gave direction and energy to their e~xertions in
the late campaign they shall not be disappoin.
ted they require at his hands diligence, in.
tegrity and capacity, wherever there are du-
ties to be performed. He then alludes to the
danger of concentrating power in the General
Government and descants on State and Fed.
eral Governments.
He then alludes to the question of slavery
Says he believes that involuntary servitude, a:
it exists in different States of the Confederacy
is recognized by the Constitution that it stand
ike any other admitted right and hat tn
States where it exists are entitled TO eficien
remedies to enforce the constitutional provis
ions.
He holds that the compromise measures
1850 are strictly constitutional, and ought to b
unhesitatingly carried into effect; that the con
stituted authorities of this Republic are boun,
to regard the rights of the South in this re
spect, as they would view any other legal an
constitutional rights that the laws to enforc
them should he respected and obeyed, not wit
q reluctance encouraged by abstract opinion
rs to their propriety in a different state of &C
cisty, but cheerfully and according TO the d.
%cisions Of the tribunals to which their expos
ton belongs.
Such has been and are his convictions, an
upon them he shall act; and he ferventl,
hopes that the question Is at rest, and that n
sectional, ambitious or fanatical views, ma
again threaten the durability of our institution,
or obscure tie light Of our prosperity ; but b
does not lay the foundations of our hope upo
mans wisdom. hs WI
He asserts that heis moved by no other in
pulse than an earnest desire for the pespe4ui