Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
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Lincoln's Inaugural---The one that
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'Bob" Lost.
The carpet-bag, containing among othe
important papers copy of President Lin
coins Inaugural Address, which was com
mitted to the especial care of his son Bob
on the departure of the Presidential part.
from Springfield, and which was unfortu
nately lost through the aforesaid 'Bob's
love of good time, has turned up. A cor
respondent has kindly forwarded US a cop!
of the anxiously looked.for document, which
We hasten to lay before our readers, premi
sing, however, that we wish it distinct.
understood, that it is the one that Bob
lost, and not tie one that Seward has writ
ten.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Fellou. Citizens The time has arrived
when must speak authoritatively and off
cially on the great questions which nov
agitate the public mind. Called by the
partiality of my countrymeu to the highes
Office within their gift, whilst l cordially
thank them for this expression of their es
TEEN, frankness compels me to say that they
have greatly over. estimated my abilities
and the result of the late Presidential elec
tion has almost entirely destroyed my con
fdence in the boasted intelligence of the
American people.
1t has been, and still is, my purpose tc
say that which shall please everybody, and
offend nobody; but l have recently been
made most painfully aware, that there is
not only vast difference Of opinion be-
tween the several political parties as they
now exist, but also between the prominent
members of the organization which was SC
unanimous in proclaiming ME the greatest
and wisest statesman of the age, and thus
in elevating me to power. To speak now
to the eminent satisfaction of all men OF
all parties were as difficult as the ancient
poet hath said it was, for Capt. Cook to pass
safely between Scylla and Charybdis, those
awful rocks against which the waves dash
so wildly in the Bherings Straits, situated
at the Southern extremity of Africa, be
tween Patagonia, highly cultivated end
productive province of Cuba, and Terra del
Fuego, a tropical island belonging to the
ancient kingdom of Newfoundland. And
by the way of parenthesis, would here re-
mark, that that island is noted for its nu-
merous volcanoes, which, to my mind, is
indicative of an immense deposit of highly
carbonaceous coal, and am therefore in
favor of its early acquisition as coal depot
for our steamers engaged in the Asiatic
trade between the ports of New York apd
Liverpool.
Fellow citizens, l have merely made this
brief, historical, geographical, and scientific
allusion, to show you what progress I have
made since my election, in those branches,
some knowledge of which is so important
to the Statesman, and to indicate that, if
the Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress, as we'll as the members of my Cabi-
net, shall study these subjects as closely as
l have done and intend to do, my admins
traton will attain to an enviable eminence
in literary and scientific fame.
With these preliminary remarks | has
ten, with great reluctance, to address my
self to the great political questions of the
day. The Treasury is the great family
meal.tub and it is cause of great disap-
poiDtment to myself and friends, who aided
in my election to find that it is nearly or
quite dry. The sources of supply have
been seriously affected by the secession of
several OF the Southern States, and great
difficulty is anticipated in collecting the
revenue in the ports of Charleston, Savau-
nah, Mobile, and New Orleans. 1t has
been suggested that the revenues may be
collected from vessels designing to enter
those ports by ships of war stationed out.
side of the barbors Since my arrival in
Washington, l have learned that the waves
do run fearfully high sometimes on the
Southern coast, and that at such times the
collection of the revenues would be attend
ed with extreme hazard and almost insur-
mountable difficulties. shall, therefore,
recommend to Congress 70 pass law EN-.
powering the President to send a Commis-
siouer to all foreign ports, to make arrange
merts within whose limits they exist, to
collect there, on terra frma, the duties on
all cargoes destined for the United States.
To be sure this method will be open to the
objection that duties will have to be laid
on cargoes that will frequently 60 to the
bottom of the Ocean during storms and
tempests, long before they reach their port
of destination; but what is all that to do
with Government? Our object is to re-
plenish the family mealtub, and in the case
alluded to, what would be the importers
loss, would be the mealtub's gain.
To be sure it may be said that there may
be some difficulty in making this arrange
ment with foreign powers, but such an OBJ
lection is of such a frivolous character, that
it is not worth while to consider it until the
difficulty actually arises.
Having thus disposed of the troublesome
question of revenue, next come to consid-
er the conduct of the Administration now
being inaugurated, towards the seeded
States in other respects. l believe that
the Chicago Platform requires of me the
protection of the public property and the en-
forcement of the laws, without prescribing
the mode of that protection and enforce
ment. Having some knowledge Of The war
like character of the people of the seeded
States, and of the military capacity and
courage of President Davis, qualities which
that eminently sagacious man, A. Ward,
says are not my forte, and the circumstan-