Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-19
3latlonal 3lGmUtrat
Tgg PRESIDENTS INAUGURAL

From an Appeal extra Of last evening, We
copy Presidents Lincon's inaugural Address
II is telegraphel from Sacramento Union
extra issued upon the arrival of the Pony.
sr LOUIS, via TT Kearney March i, and
v,.u,xcroy. March 4th,-The following is
,iu, Presidents Inaugural Address:
Esuou Citizens OF The United States In
oonrlionce with ii custom rs old as the Gov
lament itself appear here to address you
iriadv and TO take, in your presence, the
,,l, prescribed hy the Constitution of the
rr,itnd States, to be taken 10y the President
,ar,,n he enters on the execution of his Office.
"a, NOT consider it necessary at present for
..'.o discuss those matters of administration
''L,nt which there is no special excitement
trh. onrrchcnsion seems to exist among the
,,a,,,l. Of the Southern States, that 10y the
Ia..sion Of a Republican Administration,
,hc;r property and their peace and personal
,.;,,. ar, 10 be endangered: but there has
.',..r Ieel any reasonable cause for such APP
I,or.ion Indeed, the most ample eNi-
i,.,as to the contrary all the while eyistel
.nJ was open to their inspection, It's found
=, ;','I nearly all the published speeches of him
,,bo now addresses you. do but quote
f.on one of those speeches, when | declare
,hnt | have no purpose directly or indirectly
t',intrrEre with the institutions of slavery in
,hs states where it exists. believe have
no lawful right to do so. have no incIina-
t;,n to do so. Those who nominated and
,.,ortrd me did so with the fuIl knowledge
.L,t had made this and similar declarations
anJ had never recauted them. and more than
dis they placed in the platform for my ac-
o.ntonca as law to themselves and to me,
The clear and emphatic resolution, which |
now read:
PpsolreI That the maintenance invioate
ri the RIGHTS OF the States, and especially the
,i,ht of each State, TO order and control its
avn domestic institutions according TO its
own Judgment exclusively, is essential to the
LahHec Of power on which the perfection
and en- Mrdnce of our political HIrc depends,
and we d,uoauce the luWloss invasion 10y an
armed force of the Government Of any state
ar T,rliy, no matter under what preteXt, as
among tie grIvc-t OF crimes
now reitcfate these sentiments, and on
doing 50 only press upon the public attention
the most conclusive evidence Of which the
case is uscepible--that tie property, peace
and security of no section are to be in any
wise endangered hy the now incoming AG-
muistIation--I add, too, that all the proiec-
and the laws can be given, will be chcerfu!-
" given to all the State. when lawfully de
nlnded. for whatever cause, as chceriullly
to one section as TO another.
There is much controversy about the de-
livery Of fu4i,ivcs from service or lahor.-
The clause | now read j. as plainly written
in the Constitution as any other Of lis Irovi-
sious:
no person held to service or labor in one
State, under the laws thereof escaping To
another, shall in consequence of any law or
REGULATION therein bc discharged from such
service or labor, but shall hc delivered upon
claim TO the party to whom such service or
labor may be dje.
1t is scarcely questioned that this provision
was iattn led, bv those who mUIe il, tIr the
ie,laimius oG Wiat we call fugitive slaves,
and the intention of the l,w given is the Atw.
81, members of Coagrc-, s." ear their support
80 the whole Constitution, to lDi, portion as
iuuch as to any other 10 the proposition,
taeu that slaves whose eases cout within
the terms of this clause, and shall he de-
Hy,rcl zip, tGciv uaihs are uu tnjuous Now,
If layy Wuu.l u. &c tac effort j. good teMp1r
,p.li they uo, With nearly uuJWuitr, frame
u.l Iuss law ty means o.. which t" make
good that uuuiuua, oath There is some
difference %, opjnilu whether these clauses
suou.d be enforced ly national or state aG-
tlogilr, lut surely lhat difference is not a
very mutcria. oar. j tie slave is to be sul-
rendered, it cau be ct iut hu.r colse4 e4ucnce
10 him or to others ty wh4t authority j, is
Donc; and should any oue in any case toe
content that his oaiH shall hc uukrlt, or
nri.lF Ua-ahstHtial controversy as TO Eo"
Il shall oe kept. Again, ia amy I" upon jhe
eu' c', ought NOT all ,A' safe guards OF JIb-
,rtN knoWu in the ciNlilIri aud htmau Jris-
prudence TO he introduced. 50 that tlceinIn
~ Y iH mo- case be sHrrcIIrrvl as a slave; /;
ami might il not he Ve.l al the sliue time t.
provide by law for the enforcement Of that
cause in the Constitution which guarantees
That the citizens Of each st .te -hdi! he en-
tit.ci to the privileges and jumuniDrs Of the
several states? J take the o!iti d oath to-
dtE with no meatul res ryutiou-, and uo pJr-
loose To- c1u-trUe the Constitution auI law 10y
any private ru.c-; and Whir ! DO MT choose
uoW to specify particular att- ot Cougrc-, as
proper to bc enforced. do urgest that ID
will be much safer, both in official and private
stations, so conform and to abide Oy all those
acts which stand uurepealtd, jhin to violate
any of them. trusting to hhd security IL
having them ha!l u he Unconstitutional. 1t
j. sevenly-two years since the first inaugura-
tjon ct President under our National Con-
>tjtujion During that period fifteen different
and greatly distinguished cilihcns have in
succession administered the Executive, thai
branch Of the Government they conducted
through many periis, generally With great
success | now enter upon the same task for
the bliet Constitutional term Of four years,
under great and peculiar dilliculy Ii-rup-
tjon OF the Federal Union, heretofore only
,Aenaccd, is now formally attempted / hold,
then, in contemplation Of univ crsal law and
the Constitution the Union Of the States is
perpetual Porpruity is implied. if not eN-
pressed, in tde Fundamental law of all ma
the Government proper had a provision in
IT. organic law for its own preservation Con-
tuue to execute all the express provisions of
our National Constitution and the Unicn will
endure forever it bcing jlapos-iblc to destroy
it except 10y some action not provided for in
,he instrument itself Again, if the United
States be not a Government proper, but an
association of States, in the nature OF a con p
tract merely can It ASA contract he peacrabl, :,
HnmHde, unless 10y all the parties who mad
ltE One party TO ii contract may violate it
break it, SO to Speal, but does it require
an to Ia yfu.ly rescind it?
Descending from these general principles,
We iihd the proposition HAT in legal coutem-
patton the Union is perpetual confirmed ty
'ne history of itself The Union is much olde.
man the Constitution, it was framed, in fact,
ny The articles O! azsociation, in Nh 1t
""5 ua'urcd and continued hy the Declara-
won OF independence, in l776, II was fur
Iu'f maturel ON the faith of All the thpu