The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-09
LINco1N'S INAUGURAL ADDREs

to address you briefly and to take, in you presence, the oath prescribed by the c1ssi tuition of the United States to be takeN the President before he enters on the exc ton of the duties of his office.
 I do not consider it necessary, at presenl for me to discuss those matters of admin tration about which there is no speci anxiety or excitement. Apprehens seem to exist, among the people of tf southern States, that by the accession of republican administration, their property their peace, and their personal security a to be endangered There has never bq any reasonable cause for such apprehensi Indeed, the most ample evidence to
 contrary has all the while existed and bl open to inspection. It is found ih nea all the published speeches of him who n addresses you. l do utguote from on) those speeches. when declare. that
 no purpose, directly or indirectly, tD
 fere with tie institution of slavery ih States were it exists. d .heieye have ndN lawful right to do so, anN have no incli- nation to do so. Those who nominated and elected me, did so with the full knowl- edge that l had made this, and many simi-t lar declarations, and had never reeapted them. And more than this they placed il the platform fnr my acceptance, and as law to themselves and to me, the clear anS emphatic resolution, which l now read:
 aResolred, That the maintainance insioiate n the rights of the States, and especially the right each State to order and control it's own iudsrnra exclusively, is essential to that balance oi poEe on which the perfection and endurance of our pd tical fabric depends, and We denounee the lawlf invasion by armed force of the soil ofany Statehs terrtorv-no matter under what pretext-as amot the gravest of climes."
 I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so, only press upon the public at tention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that theI property, peace, and security of no section, are to be in any wise endangered by thel 1 now incoming administration. 1 add, too, 1 that all the protection which, consistently with the constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to ali the States, when lawfully demanded, for what ever causes, as cheerfully to one section ass to another.
 There is much controversy about the delivery up of fugitives from service orA labor. The clause now read is as plainly written in the constitution as any other of J it's f,s-fv isfoils: ---.ei7@A :" No person held to serviee>or labor ip one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of anyN law or regulation therein. be discharged from such service or labor. but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may Dc due' {l
 It can scarcely be questioned that this pro1 vision is intended by those who made it, for the retaining of what we call fugitivef slaves, and the intention of the lawgiver is the law All members of Congress sweay to give their support to. the whole const' tution---to this provision as much as to am other. To the proposition, then, tha slaves whose eases come within the ternl' of this clause shall be delivered up, thein1( oaths are unanimous.
 Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not, with nearly equal unanimity, frame and pass a law, by means of which to keep good that unani- nous oath? There is some difference of opinion, whether this clause should be enforced by national or State authority, but surely that difference is not very material one If the slave is to De sur rendered, 1t can be of but little consequence to him, or to others, by which authority 1t is done; and should any one, in any case, be content that his oath shall go unkept, on mere unsubstantial controversy. as to how it shall be kept? Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safe guards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence, to be introduced so that free man be not in any case sulren- dered as a slave? And might 1t not be well, at the same time, to provide by law 1 for the reinforcement of that clause in the Z constitution which guarantees that the.A
 zens of each State shall be entitled toEl the privileges and immunities of citizans in the several States?
 take the official oath to-dayvNith no mental reservations, and with no puFpose.j to construe the constitution or laws by any hypocritical rules. And while ] dc no choose now to specify the particular rulea I | f-.- II T