Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-10-27
6ou4 gobIlsor's aAbrrss.
Inaugural Address Ct Gov. johnson.


Gf1lenfl Of The Ssafte Of the
/ Ho1seQE Representatives.
4 and Fetlolo- Citizens:
1t / as long been t he established
custom in this State, upon the In
aJgura ton of the Chief Executive
Officer, to shadow forth in what i!
termed an Inaugural Address, suet
opinions as he may entertain in ref
erence to the leading measures and
policy of the State and General
Governments.
i. In obedience to this custom and
to public expectation, without fur
ther prelude, | will proceed in as
brief and concise a MANNER as the
nature and the Importance of the
subjects will permit, to give such
views as | may entertain. in relation
to some of those measures and prin-
ciples, which | believe lie at the
foundation of the two great parties
in this country, and involve the ex-
istence of the Government itself
The differences of opinion which
have arisen in this, are, as in the
Governments Of the other quarters
of the globe, fundamental ia their
character, ard such as have existed
ever since men were first formed in
10 social communities. Tho begin
ming point of these differ rences was,
IS to where proper 10 dgment of the
Supreme power sho uld be made
whether in the hands Of q ne, or a
few men, or whether it should he
continued in the possession of the
great mass Of the people, where it,
of right, belongs Between the in
terested and designing few, on the
one hand, and the laboring many, on
the other, political power has been Vi
brating, as the pendulum, from the
origin of mans social co ndition to
the present period of time. Divis-
ion of sentiment upon this great
problem, in this country, made its
most remarkable developm ent in the
Convention which framed the Con-
5titution Of the United States. In
hat Convention there were two par
les one Of them headed by Alex
,nder Hamilton, who contended for
that form Of Goyernmentvhich was
strongest and flrthest removed from
he mass of the people, and based up /
N the monarchial, or kingly notion.
hat man vas made for government,
le not being capable Of governing
liInself The other party wis head
d by Mr. Madison, who contended
hat government was made for man,
le being honest and capable Of gov
rning himself. The ardent contest,
i struggle, between the advocates of
popular form OF government, vest
ne the sovereign power in the mass
f the people, and those who stood
ppoBed to ID, resulted in the
Of the Constitutio Of the
Jnited States as it now st ands = less
in many of IFS leading
than was desired by those
yho had confidence ia the integrity,
onesty, aud capability Of the peo- i
lie to govern themselves. BY this
eference to the history of our coun-
rs, it WILDE at once perceived when |
nd where this division Of par ties {
ook its rise and had its origin, L
1t is most manifest that the differ
nee of opinion between parties, or,
,ore properly speaking, the leaders |
parties, (ior the great q bass oil the
.merican people are Den hocratlc IN a
entiment,) does not consif | t in name
Ierely, but has a deeper foundation I t
tha United States, and dates Its +
-idin anterior to any appella- f
ed bv which parties are h nown and e
esigiated in modern tim rs. After \
le ratification of-the Cd Institution |
tba TTbited States by the several i
+ates and when the Government f
al been nut into successful opera s
II these same parties made their j:
,nearance in another form, and .
der another and more imposing I
me: o6e of them conte hiding ior 4
i exercise of all thos 9 powers q
,ieh had been sought as express G
ahis, and refused in the formation .
hle Constitution, by implication q
dlhtitudipous i construction Of the a
,nsEjtution-fbe other contendiDg Il