The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-10
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Father .ADrahanzss Inaugural Sermon
...0is ReproAucsioa and ApPaica-
ton q Scripture TO she Wharf.-The
War our Scourge for slavery--'The
n InanguratioD,. &c. r !
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The following is
the President's message:
Z FRLLow CeUNrRYMEN:-At this second APP
pearing to take the oath Of the Presidential
office, there is less occasion for an extended
address than there was at the first. Then
statement somewhat in detail of q course to be
pursued seemed very fitting and proper; now,
at the expiration of four years, during which
puoic declarations have been constantly called
forth on every point and phase of the great
contest which still absorbs the attention and
engrosses the energies of the nation, little that
is new could be presented.
The progress Of cur arms, Gpon which all
else chiefly depends, is as we'll known to the
public as myself, and it is, trust reasonably
satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high
hope for the future, no prediction in regard to
it was vertalred on the occasion corresponding
to this four years ago. All thoughts were anx
iously directed to an impending civil war; all
dreaded It.; all sought to avoid it. While the
inaugural address was being delivered from
this place, devoted altogether to saving the
Union without war, insurgent agents were in
the city seeking to destroy it without war;
seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the
effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecat-
ed war; but one of them would make war
rather than Let the nation survive, and the
other would accept rather than let it perish.
So the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were
colored slaves, not distributed generally ever
the Ucion, but located in the soethern part of
it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and
powerful interest All knew that this interest
was somehow the cause of the war. To
strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest
was the object for which the insurgents would
.rend the union by war. While the govern
ment claimed no right to do more than to
restrict the territorial enlargement Of It, neither
party expected for the war the magnitude or
the duration which it has already attained
neither anticipated that the cause of the con-
fict might cease, or even before the conflict
itself should cease, each looked for an easier
triumph, and q result less fundamental and
astounding; both read the same Bible and pray
to the same God, and each invokes his aid
against the other.
It may seem strange that any men should
dare to ask . just Gods assistance in wrtnging
their bread from the sweat of other mems faces,
but let Us "jrdge not, that we be not judged. "
The prayers of both should not be answered
that Of neither has been answered fully.
The Almighty has his own purpsee-"woe
unto the world because Of offences, for it must
needs be that offences come, but woe to that
man by whom the offence eometh."
If we shall suppose that American Slavery
Is one of those Cffances which, in the Prosi-
dence of God, must needs come, but which
having continued through his appointed time
he now wills to remove, and that he gives to
both North and South this terrible war as the
''woe due to those by whom the Offences came"
shall we discern there Is any departure from
those divine attributes which the believers of
q living God always attribute to him2
Fondly do we hope, ferently do we pray
that the mighty scourge of war may speedily
pass away; yet if God wills that 1t continue
until all the wealth piled by the bondnen's
two hundred and fifty years Of unrequited toll
shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash, shall be by another
drawn with the sword, as was said three
thousand years ago,-so still it must be said
that the judgments of the Lord are righteous
altogether" With malice towards none, with
charity for all, with frmness in the right, as
God gives Us to the right, let us strive on to
finish the work which we are in, aad to bind
up the national wounds, and care for him who
shall have borne the battle, and for his widow
and cherish . just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations. a.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The procession is
now forming though heavy rain is falling,
and the streets are almost impossible from
mud. The city is filled with dense mass of
people. The ceremonies will take place in the
Senate chamber. ..r.
reached the capitol at about 11:45 A. NJ, es-
corting the President elect. At subsequent
period the President and Vice President to-
gether, with the Justices of the Supreme
| Court, members and ex-members of Congress,
foreign ministers, and other persons OF distinc-
ton, assembled in the Senate chamber. There
the Vice President elect took the oath of Office,
preceding it by an address.
Chief Justice Chase administered the oath of
Office on the eastern portico, where the Presi-
dent delivered his inaugural address. There
was q very large attendance and the scene of
marked interest.
PERSONAL. Lieut.. F, G. Smith,
of the 4th U. 8. Artillery, son of our we'll
known citizen DR.. F. R Smith, reached this
city few days ago, from Eastport, Miss, on
furlough. Lieut. Smith has been in the service