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President Jefferson Davis's Inaugural
Address, Delivered in Richmond
February az, 1862.
FELLow. CITIZENS: On this the brit
day Of the man most identified with the
establishment of American independence
and beneath the monument erected to com
memorate his heroic virtues and those Of
his compatriots, we have assembled to usher
into existence the permanent Government
of the Confederate States. Through this
iustrumeutality, under the favor of Divine
Providence, we hope to perpetuate the
principles of our revolutionary fathers. The
day, the memory and the purpose seem 6t'
ly associated.
1t is with mingled feelings OF humility
and pride that I appear to take, in the
presence of the people and before high
Heaven, the oath prescribed as qualifca'
ton for the exalted station to which the
unanimous voice of the people has called
me. Deeply sensible Of all that is implied
By this manifestation of the peoples conf
dence, am yet more profoundly impressed
by the vast responsibility of the Office, and
humbly feel my own unworthiness
In return for their kindness can only
offer assurance of the gratitude with which
it is received, and can but pledge zeal
GUS devotion of every faculty in the SER
vice of those who have chosen me as their
Chief Magistrate.
When long course of class legislation,
directed not to the general welfare, but to
the aggrandizement of the Northern section
of the Union, eliminated in warfare on
the domestic institutions of the Southern
States-when the dogmas of sectional
party, substituted for the provisions of the
constitutional compact, threatened to de-
stroy the sovereign rights of the States,
six of those States, Withdrawing from the
Union, confederated together, to exercise
the right and perform the duty of instltu.
ting Government which would better Sc.
cure the liberties for the preservation OF
which the Union was established.
Whatever Of hope some may have enter
tanned that returning sense Of justice
would remove the danger with which our
rights we're threatened, aud render it pos
sible to preserve the Union of the Consti
tuition, must have been dispelled by the
malignity and barbarity of the Northern
States in the prosecution of the most hope
full among US must have been destroyed by
the disregard they have recently exhibited
for all the time-honored bulwatks of civil
and religious liberty. Bastiles filled with
prisoners, arrested without civil process,
or indictment duly found; the writ Of ha-
5eas corpus suspended by Executive man.
date; State Legislature controlled by the
Imprisonment of members whose aVowed
principles suggested to the Federal Exec.
utive that there might be another added to
the list of seceeded States; elections held
under threats of military power; OWL Of
fcers, peaceful citizens, and gentle women
incarcerated for opinions sake, proclaimed
the incapacity of our late associates to ad.
minister Government as free, liberal and
humane as that established for our common
use.
For proof of the sincerity of our purpose
to maintain our ancient institutions, We may
point to the Constitution of the Confedera-
cy and the laws enacted under it, as we'll
as to the fact that through all the necessi-
ties of an unequal struggle, there has been
no act on our part to impair personal liber'
ty or the freedom of speech or of the press
The courts have been open, the judicial
functions fully executed, and every right
of the peaceful citizen maintained as Sc
curely as if a war of invasion had not dis
turbed the land
The people of the States now confeder'
ated became convinced that the United
States had fallen into the hands of sec.
tioual majority who would perVert that
most sacred of all trusts to the destruction
of the rights which it was pledged to pro-
tect. They believed that to remain longer
in the Union would subject them to dis
paraging discrimination, submission to
which would be inconsistent with theii
welfare, and intolerable to proud people
They therefore determind to sever its
bonds and establish a new Confederacy fol
themselves. Cheers
The experiment instituted by our revolu
tionary fathers of voluntary union of SOW
ereigu States for purposes specified IN
solemn compact had been perverted BY
those who, feeling power and forgetting
right, were determined to respect no law
but their own will The Government had
ceased to answer the ends for which it was
ordained and established To save our.
selves from revolution, which in its silent
but rapid progress was about to place US
under the despotism of numbers, and tc
preserve in spirit as we'll as in form sys
TEN of government we believed to be pecu
liarly fitted to our condition and full O
promise to mankind, we determined tt
make new association, composed of States
homogeneous interest, in policy and feeling
[Cheers.]
True to our traditions of peace and ou
love of justice, We sent commissioners II