Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-03-20
Address ofrresideni
GRANT.
MAsnINaFoN. Mareh . ls0e,

tai reservation and with tho deter
mination To do, TO the best OF my
ability, all that IL requires of me,
The responsibilities OF tho position
feel, but accept them without fear
Tho Office has come TO me nnsonghL
| commence its duties untrammeled'
| bring 10 il conscientious desire
aud determination 10 ill IL TO The
best of my ability, and TO the salts
faction of the people.
. On all leading questions agitating
tho public mind, ! will always ex,
press my views TO Congress and
urge them according to my judg'
ment and when think II advisa,
bic, will exercise tho constitutional
privilege of interposing n veto to
dc eat measures | oppose, but all
laws will be faithfully executed,
whether they meet my approval or
not.
! shall, on all subjects, have n pol
lev to recommend, but none TO en-
, force against the people. Laws arc
10 govern all alike. Those opposed
TO ms well MS those who favor them.
know no method to secure the re-
peal of bad obnoxious laws so eifec'
tive ms their stringent execution.
The country having just emerged
from a great rebellion and many
questions will come before it for set
tlement in the next four years which
preceding administrations have
never had to deal with. In meeting
these, il is dcsii able that they should
be approached calmly and without
prejudice, hate or sectional pride,
remembering that the greatest good
to the greatest number is the object
to be attained. This requires secur-
ity Of person and property, and of
religious and political opinions in
every part of our common country
without regard to local prejudices.
All laws TO secure these ends will
receive my best efforts for their en-
forcement
A great debt has been contracted in
securing to us and our posterity the
Union. The payment of the Prlncl-
PAL and interest, as well as the re-
turn to specie basis, as soon as it
can be accomplished without meteri-
al detrlment to the debtor class, or
30 the country at large, must be
nroy;ded for. TO protect the ma
tjonal honor, every dollar ofgovern,
ment indebtedness should be paid
in rold unless otherwise expressly
stipulated in the contract Leu IL pe
understood that no repldl.:'or oi
one farthing of our national de'.
will be trusted in a public place, and
it will go far towards strengthening
a credit which ought to be the best
in the world, and will ultimately
enable us to replace the debt with
bonds bearing less interest than we
now pay. To this should be added
faithful collection of the revenue,
strict accountability to the Treas
ury for every dollar collected, and
the greatest practicable retrench-
ment in expenditure in every de-
partment of tho government. When
we compare the paying capacity OF
the country now, with ten States
still in poverty from the effects OF
war, but soon to emerge, trust, into
to greater prosperity than ever be-
fore, with its paying capacity twen-
ty five years ago and calculate
what it probably will be twenty five
years hence, who can doubt the
feasibility of paying every dollar
then with more case than we now
pay for useless luxuries. Why, it
looks as though Providence had be-
slowed upon us strong box of the
precious metals, locked up in the
sterile mountains of the far West,
which we are now forging the key
to unlock, to meet the very contin-
gency that is now upon us. Ultl-
mately it may be necessary to in
crease the facilities to reach these
riches; and it may be necessary also
that the General Government should
give it's aid to secure this access, but
that should be when a dollar ofobli-
CATION secures precisely thesame sort
Of dollar to use now and not before,
whilst the question of specie pay
ment is in allegiance to the prudent
business man who is careful about
contracting debts payable in the dis
tant future; the nation should tol-
low the same rule,
A PROSTATE commerce is to be re-
built, and all industries encouraged /;
the young men of the country, thoss
who from their age must be its rul-
ers twenty five years hence, have a
peculiar interest in maintaining the
national honor. A moments refec-
tion as to what will be our COM
manding influence among the ma
tions of the Garth in their day, if
they are only true te themselves,
should inspire them with national
pride. Ali divisions, geographical,
political and religious, can join in
the common sentiment. How the
public debt is 10 be paid, whether
specie payment is resumed is not SO
important as that plan should be
adopted and acquiesced in by all.
United determination TO do is worth
more than divided councils upon
the mothod of doing. Legislation
upon this subject nay not be neces-
sary now, nor ever advisable, but IT
will be when tie civil law is more
fully restored in TIE whole ec1ntry
and trade resumcs its wonted chan
nels. IL will be my eudeayor to
execute all laus iu good iaIth, 70
collect all revenues assessed and TO
have them properly accounted for
and econon ically cisburscd. lwill
to The Lest of ny ability appoint 10
Office thoss onlv who Eiii carry out
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