Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-03-16


warrants may transmit them by mail to
agents mere, who viii, furnish selections
from personal examination Of the tracts
located, charging fee Therefore or they
may mail them directly to the Land Off
GERS, indicating at what point they desire
them located, when selections will be made
from such information as the pIats and
field notes afford, and the duplicate certi-
ficates returned, and no fee required, ex
cept the payment Of postage and the loca
ting fee esta blished by law Of one dollar
for each forty acres.
Respectfully.
S. ?. YEoMANS, Register.
PRESIDENT LIXcoLN's INAuGU-
RAJ ADDRESS.
Felom Citizens Of tie United States:
In compliance with custom as old as
tho Government itself, | appear before
you to address you briefly aud to take in
your presence the oath prescribed by the
Constitution of the United States, to be
taken by the Presiien. before be enters
on the execution OF his Office.
do not consider il necessary at present
for me to discuss those matters of the
Administration about which there is no
anxiety or excitement. The apprehension
seems to exist among the people Of the
Southern States, that by the accession OF
u Republican Administration, their pro.
perty and their peace and personal securi.
ty are TO be endangered, and there has
never been any reasonable cause fer such
apprehension. Indeed, the most ample
evidence to the contrary has all the while
existed and been open to their inspection.
it is found in nearly all the published
speeches Of him who now addresses YOU
do but quote from one of those speech
es where declare that have no purpose.
directly or indirectly, to interfere with the
institution Of slavery in the States where
it exists. believe have no lawful right
to co SO, and | have no inclination TO do
SO. Those who nominated and elected
me, did so with the full knowledge that
had made this and many similar declar
atlons, and had never recanted them and
more than this, they placed in the platform,
for my acceptance as a law to themselves
and to me, the clear and emphatic resolu
ton which | now read:
Resolred, That the maintenance invio.
late of the right Of the States, and espec
tally the RICH, of each to order and control
its own domestic institutions according to
its own Judgment exclusively, is essential
to the balance of power on which the per-
fiction and endurance Of our political IA
brio depend, and we denounce the lawless
invasion by an armed force of the Govern.
ment OF any State or Territory, no matter
under wha. pretext, as among the greatest
Of crimes
now reiterate these sentiments. and in
doing so, on press upon the public at
tention the most conclusive Evidence OF
which the case is susceptible, that the
property, peace and security. of no sec
tion are to be in any wise endangered by
the now incoming Administration. add,
too, that all the protection which consist
emily with the Constitution and the laws
can De given, will be chsertrlly given to
all the States when lawfully demanded for
whatever cause az chcerfully to one section
as to another.
There IS much controversy about the
delivery Of fugitives from service or labor.
The clause now read is rs plainly writ,
ten in the Constitution as any other of it's
provisions:
NO person held to service or labor in
one State under the laws thereof escaping
into another, shall. in consequence Of any
law or regulation therein, be discharged
from such service or labor, but shall be
delivered up on claim to the party to
whom such service or labor may be due"
1t is scarcely questioned that this provi-
sion was intended By those who made il
for the reclalming Of what We call fugitive
slaves, and the intention Of the law given
is the law. All menbers of Congress
swear their suppor, TO the whole Constitu-
ton to this provision as much as any other
10 the proposition. then, thas slaves whose
cases come within the terms of this clause:
And shall be delivered up their oaths
are unanimous. Now, if they would make
the effort in good temper, could they not,
with neary unanimity, frame and pass a
law by means o. which to keep good that
unanimous oath.
There is some difference of opinion
whether this clause should be enforced bv
National or State authority, but surely
that difference is not a very material one
If the slave is to be surrendered 10 can ne
OF but little consequence to him or to 9th
srs, by which authority it is done, and
should any one, in any case, be cont.n,
that his oath shall be unkept, or n merely
unsubstsntial controversy as 10 how it
shall be kept Again, in any law upon
this subject, ought not all the safe. guards
Of liberty, known in the civilizsd and hu
name Jurisprudence to be introduced, so
that freeman may not bs in any case
surrendered as a slave? And might il
not be well at the same time, to provide
by lay for the enforcement of that clause
in the Constitution, which guarantees that
the citizens of each State shall be entitled
to all the privileges and inmuuities Of
citizens Of the several States
l take the official oath to day. with no
mental reservation, and no purpose to con
strue the Constitution and laws by any
hyp.rcritic2l rules aud while | do MOI
ehoose, now, 10 specify particular acts Of
Congress as proper to be enforced, do
suggest that it will lie much safer for all
both in official and private stations. to con
form to and abide by all lhose acts which
stand unrepealsd, than to violate any Of
them, trusting to find security in having
them held to be unconstitutional
It is seventy-two years since the frs,
Inauguration of President, under our
National Constitution. During that period
fifteen different and greatly distinguished
citizens have, in succession, administered
the Executive branch Of the Goyernm emit
They have conducted it through many
perils. generally with great success vel.