Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-03-30
Extracts from JeffersOn's Inaugural.

As we promised, says the Shasta C6urier of last
week, we give few extracts from the Inaugural
Message of Thomas Jefferson, delivered from the
steps of the Federal Capitol sixty years ago.
In reading this splendid production one cannot
fail to perceive the remarkable fact that almost
everything seems peculiarly pertinent to the
present exigences Of The nation. Indeed, Abra-
ham Lincoln might with propriety have incorpo-
rated in his Inaugural the greater portion there
of, without the change OF word or sentence or
punctuation mark
"During the contest of opinion through which
we have passed, the animation of discussions and
of cXertions have sometimes worn an aspect which
might impose on strangers unused to think freely,
and to speak and to write what they think but
this being now decided by the voice of the ma
tion. announced according to the rules of the
Constitution, all WILL of course, arrange them
selves under the will of the law, and unite on
common efforts for the common good. All too
will bear in mind this sacred principle, that tho
the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail
that will to be rightful must be reasonable that
the minority possess their equal rights, which e.
quail laws must protect and to violate would bo
oppression Let US then, fellow citizens. unite
with one heart and one mind let us restore TO so
cial intercourse that harmony aud Affection with
out which liberty, and even lite itsell' are ouI
dreorv thinos We have called by
different names brethren of the same principle.
W. are ALL Repubiicaps-ce are ALI FtderdftSts'
II their be anv among us who would dissolve thls
Union, or change its republican form, let them
stand undisturbcd rs monuments OF the salety
with which error of opinion may be tolerated,
where reason Is left free to combat 1t. know
indeed that some honest men fear that repup'
can Government cannot be strong that this gov
ernmcnt cannot be strong enough. But wonll
the honest patrot in the full tide OF snccesslui
experiment. abandon n government which has 80
far kept us free aud firm, on the theoretic ana
visionary fear, that this government, the world
best hope, may, by possibility want energy 10
preserve itself trust not. | believe this on
the contrary, the strongest government on earth
believe II the only one, where every man, az
the call of the law would fly to the standard ot
the law, and would meet invasions OF the pubic
order as his own personal concern. Sometimes
IL is said that man cannot be trusted win the
government of himself Can he then he trusted
with the government of Others? Or have we
found angels in the form of kings, to govern him
Let history answer this question.
Let us then, with courage and confidence, pur-
sue our own federal aud republican principles
our attachment TO union and representative gov
ernment. Still one thing more' iei
low citizens. wise and frugal government which
shall restrain men from injuring one another,
shall leave them otherwise free TO regulate their
own pursuits of industry and improvement, ami
shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread
Il has earned This IL the sum OF good govern
ment and this is necessary to close the circle oil
Our feliCties,O