The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-03-09
THE INAUGURAL.

Let Us thank God for AnRAuAr L,sco,x
He has taken his oath of ofice--in a brie,
address be has annonnced his policy-and
the President has not belied the man.
Four years ago q man who had grown
gray IN the service Of his country, and who
had enjoyed. in almost every civil station
which an honorable ambition could cove,
the opportunity to learn the teachings Of
experience. took the Presidential oath
Circumstances and the temper of the people
were alike favorable to his success. Even
the vanquished party anticipated his admin
istration with favorable eye. and Le had il
in his power to cement the ties which bound
the Union together. and by dealing out
equal and exact justice on every hand, and
pursuing only the paths illustrated by the
patriotic wisdom of the past. TO win for him
self and for his Administration high posi-
ton. But in his Inaugural Address he fore
Swallowed tortuous and distracting policy,
unreeognized in the history of the past. and
utterly unsanctioned by large majority of
the people. In the pursuit of the policy
thus aRneanced. all his age aad experience
have ayailed him nothing TO prevent igno
minious and disastrous failure, while its Ie-
climate results have been worked out by
other hands. aided by the completely of his
weakness. TO the present distracted condi-
ton Of the country. Broken finances,
wholesale rebellion. treason, even in the adj
ministrative departments of the General
Government, are among the consequences
of Mr.. Buc banana policy. which we have
been called upon heiplessly to witness:
We publish elsewhere Mr.. Lincoln's In
augural, and we know that we have no need
to call any readers attention to it. No
public document has of late years been ex-
pected with so great anxiety and interest as
this. Il is the utterance of an earnest pat
riot and straightforward man, who, if he
has shown that he knows how to abstain
from speaking. has also shown that when
he breaks silence. it is because he has some
thing to say. Without prestige and without
experience. and evidently ignoring if not
despising the politicians .'fnesse, by which
words are used for the concealment of ideas
and doubtful front is regarded as the only
garb of polilica! wisdom. Mr.. Lincoln brings
into the place he has been called upon to Gil |
an honest and hig minded purpose. strong
and resolute will, clear and vigorous mind,
and in his first official act he manifests them
all. We cannot cease to admire the unaffect- |
ed simplicity of manner with which be meets
the question flor be sees but one, and that
the Union J, nor the brave and straigbtfor
ward purpose with which he discards all
elaborate argument and useless explana-
ton. and plants himself firmly, and as all
must see immovably. upon the rock of duty.
United States to administer the Government
Of the United States, and his path lies clear
before him. 1t involves no question of sec
tons, nor Of local grievances. The Consti-
tuition as it was made shall be his sole guide.
until the people shall change it and neither
dangerous innovations of courts nor the ex
citement and misapprehensions of individu-
ais or localities, shall swerve him.
The patton NAV breathe freer. now. We
know that henceforth whoever may faiter,
We have President who stands firm. Vac
illation will be unknown, because honesty
is our new Presidents policy, and that pol
icy has but one direction. and that onward.
The Union, at whatever cost, will remain
the Union, and the Constitution win be the
supreme law of the land. And if, indeed,
rs Republicans. we can have any separate
cause for rejoicing beyond that of our fellow
citizens. it will be only in the fact that the
Constitution is to be Interpreted as its franz
ers aud first administrators interpreted it,
and that, from the blessings thence resulting
10 the whole country. the Republican party
will receive its desired and ample vindication'
Cop SAVE THE PRESIDENT