The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1858-01-28
SECOND INAUGURALADDRESS.
GOV. CHASE,
Delivered Jan. llth, 1853.
7ellop Citizens Of Tie Senate

and HoaSe V ItePreSentdttVeS'
The will Of the people, expressed in
the modn prescribed by the Constitution,
has summoned me for the second time. to
the duties and responsibilities Of the
Chief Magistracy Of Ohio. and l have
now, in your presence, and in the pres
ence Of the people here assembled. taken
udon myself the solemn obligation Of an
oath 10 perform them faithfully.
During the two years since l was FIRST
honored with this trust, it has been my
constant endeavor to acquit myself Of it
as became citizen devoted tv the insti-
tutions Of the State, and bound by every
obligation Of honor and gratitude, to the
faithful service Of the people. l may not
say that have not committed 10 errors.
Doubtless some thugs have been mitted
which might have been done, and some
things done, which might have been bet
ter DOM. But l may say, and it seems
not unfit that l should say, here, in this
presence, fearing no contradiction from
any truthful man who knows the truth,
that all my acts have been designed to
promote 1he highest interests Of the State
and that my best faculties and my most
earnest endeavors have been actively
and unremittiugly devoted to her SER
vice. .a ....
Assuming now, once more, in obedi-
nnce to he popular voice, this response
BILE trust, my past must stand sole spon-
sor for the future. Larger experience
and better information will, trust, ena-
Bile me to accomplish something more for
the public good than has hitherto been
affected; but my aims, my pu urposes, and
my principles Of action must remain un-
changed. .......
You will not expect Of mo, gentlemen,
on tqis occasion, any discussion of civil
or political questions. l have already.
within few days, made fully known to
you. my views in relation to public af-
fairs. That those views will meet your
Concurrence, in all respects, it would be
presumption in me to anticipate; but
there is one point, at least, where all our
judgments, all our Purposes and all exer-
tions may well join. The common good
should be. and I trus, will be, our COM
mon aim. Under our fortunate policy
no King--no Aristocracy-no Arbitrary
Power-no Privileged Class-can claim
to be the State. The welfare, the honor
the advancement Of all things good and
noble, Of the State, is nothing else than
the welfare. the honor, the advancement
the people and the whole people. To
these great objects, gentlemen, however,
we may differ as to the best means Of
promoting them, we will join in address
ing the most strenuous exertions Of our
highest powers. -
1t is not our part. happily, to lay the
foundation of Institutions. Tat work
is done and well done to our hands. 1t
is our singulr felicity to be citizens Of the
first State Of the Union, organized thro'
the wise providence Of the Founders Of
the Republic, upon those Fundamental
principles Of civil and religious liberty"
which they declared to be the basis Of all
American Law and all American Consti.
tutious. In the organization Of other
States unfriendly circumstances have
permitted only the partial application Of
these principles. In the organization of
this no such circumstances imposed their
evil influences. The institutions of Ohio
were framed in precise harmony with the
ideal of State as it existed in tie minds
of the great master builders of the Con-
federacy, and Of the Union. This ideal
demande d, first of all, the absolute free
dom Of every individual guaranteed and
secured by impartial law; next, inviola
bility Of conscience, and just protection to
all forms of worship and all religious or
ganizations; then, the sacred observance
Of compacts; then, the promotion of reli-
gion, morality and knowledge by univer
sal education. There was noshing narrow
nothing illiberal, no'hing unjust in this
ideal. 1t welcomed the immigrant to
the freest participation with the home
born in the inestimable blessings of popu-
lor ;n,t;,ut;one II nledrod fbs Cfots