Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-03-12
THE INAUGURAL.

In this issue we present to our readers
the Presidents Inaugural Address, deliv-
cred yesterday. Like all his addresses, it
is q plain, unvarnished statement of his
views on q few of the leading subjects of
public interest and a gratifying exhibit of
our national greatness. We see in it the
entire absence of adroit reasoning to adj
vance impracticable theories, such as we
would expect from q professional polit-
clan, as well as that pompous, arbitrary
spirit that would characterize the address
of a monarch to his unwilling subjects.
He promises that his efforts in the future
shall be directed to the restoration of good
feeling between the different sections of
our common country. Restore this good
feeling and we have all we want.
Let the people of the North, South,
East and West live together in peace and
harmony and cooperate together in build
ing up our common interests, and nothing
can retard our progress. Our future will
be onward and upward, and other nations
seeing our good example will indeed take
us for their guiding star. Republican gov
ernments will take the place of monarchies
and freedom of oppression. This way we
will build up our commerce, sustain our
credit, reduce the public burdens, encour
age education, elevate our civilization,
amass national and individual wealth and
increase our power for good.
The President has now entered upon his
second term. In the past he has had to
encounter the opposition of vndctive, I'M
scrupulous enemies, and of false, treacher-
GUS friends. The tongue of SANDER has
been busy in attempting to detract from
his well earned fame. He has been pur-
sued by politicians and by unprincpled
newspaper editors and correspondents as
II he were the meanest criminal in
the land. He, as he says, can now
we'll afford to disregard all this in view of
the overwhelming verdict of the people
in his favor. He can not expect to escape
this abuse in the future. Too many news
papers seem to have concluded that inde~
pendence means to find fault with every
body and everything. They will contin-
ue to find fault with him; contin-
ne to abuse continue to watch
and SANDER him. But may we
not expect good men of all parties tn unite
in sustaining him when he is right? May
we not expect gentlemen who oppose
him, to criticise his public acts in a fair
and gentlemanly way, avoiding wholesale
condemnation, whether right or wrong?
May we not expect them to condemn the
spirit which would dog the President
wherever he goes, not even stopping to
enter the family circle, and making pub.
lie, private matters of the most trivial ma
ture.
Let the President have such support
in his endeavors to do what is best for the
whole country as is due his high position
Let the people cooperate with their Chic
Magistrate in whatever they have reason
to believe is right, and the country will be
better off
We predict that the people of the United
States will be more prosperous and tina
the nation will make greater progress dur
ing the four years of Grants second term
than during any previous four years il
the history of the country, and that at thu
end of that time he will stand higher thar
ever before with the people, while man,
of those who have slandered and abused
him will have been forgotten.