The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-04-27
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. II. II, HUE
BARD's INAUGURAL.
Address Delivered neiOre the senate
and II Ouse Of Representative
April 20, 1870.
EELLOW-CrTIAENs

FELLOw-CmIzENs:
The highest tribute to the wisdom OF
Republican institutions IL the simpli-
city Of their laws and the absence of
pomp and pageantry in their admin
stratlon.
When, in Kingdoms aud empires,
new rulers whose only claim to power
IL traced back to the line Of some
rude conqueror are called 10 the helm
of State, tho event Is celebrated by
the expenditure Of millions Of treasure,
wrung from poverty -strlckon subjects !
while bon1res and Nominations and
NATAL array attend upon their corona
ton day.
Under or Constitution and laws,
how grand the contrast and how in
iinitely superior to all this vain and
transitory mockery Of royalty, rises
the genius OF Constitutional liberty
when, with connding trust the only
pledge the republic asks OF her officers
and representatives entering upon the
high places of power is the simple
and solemn oath to administer her
laws faithfully and in the foar OF
people, the source Of all legitimate
power, and with the sacred pledge,
freely offered upon her affairs, We enter
again, willingly, upon her service.
Called to assist in the executive de-
partment Of the State Government by
II political majority of more than II
hundred thousand Of her citizens, in
this great presence of their Representa-
tives, we acknowledge, with profound
gratitude, the confidence which that
voice implies and beg to assure our
countrymen, in return, that the trust
shall be held AS sacred AS our life, and
our fidelity to her honor shall know
no "variableness or shadow of turn
The past belongs to history. We can
not undo its deeds If we would. The
part many of us have borne in the
honored councils of the State, must
abide the criticisms, sometimes sharp
and bitter, of our contemporaries, and
the calmer arbitrament of posterty.
Claiming no exemption from the
errors of human Judgment, or the
fraiities OF our race, we feel that n gen
erous people will throw the mantle of
forgetluness over the honest mistakes
of their public servants, If in that serv-
Ice there has been always kept in
view, like the polar-star to watchful
sailors on the seas, an unyielding and
ever-burning devotion to the honor
and prosperity and glory Of Texas
Texas undivided, now, henceforth and
forever
The present administration of which
your distinguished bodies constitute
an honorable part, looking back over
the trials and triumphs of recent
years to the last browning achieve
ment of 1876, cannot be just to itself or
its friends, unless, Mt the same time, it
Is generous to our foes-conceding that
mere differences of opinion are not in
consistent with common love for State
and country.
Recognizing In its full force, the
changed relations of these States aud
of this State to the Federal Govern
ment and remitting to the tribunal of
history the causes which led, in bitter
ness and strife, to those changes and
believing, as we do, that the political
faith we esp0use has been handed
down from the fathers-that it recog-
nizes in broad and maternal spirit
the Constitution as il is; fidelity to the
Union, and obedience to its laws, en-
bracing alike forty millions of people,
native or foreign born, rich or poor,
as our common countrymen, wherever
floats, on land or wave, the flag of our
country.
In this spirit to-day, we invite the
earnest cooperation of all parties and
of all races in our common purpose,
to. developo our resources; build up our
shattered fortunes; reclaim the waste
places, and to prepare the way for the
coming of that period in her history
when Texas shall take her rlace--the
peer If not peerless, among all the
sisterhood OF States. Our children
will live to see that day, as their faith
ers even now catch glimpse of its
splendid dawning. We have but to
be true to vows, made upon her affairs,
to realize this rich fruition, ere the
present generation is gathered to
their fathers"
Forty years ago, scarcely fifty thou
sand pOpulation--poer and friendless,
constitute all her household, while to-
day, near two millions of people are
standing sentinel within her gates.
Then she had no commerce now
and then some stray sail of sea found
its way into its waters. No,U, she
sends out more than six hundred thou
sand bales of cotton to the worlds
markets, and receives in return mil
lions of treasure; she sends wheat and
all the cereals even to Kansas and Mis-
souri,, and the great Northwest, and
supplies, In her cattle trade, ten mil.
lions of meat.stuffs in value; she has
now growing cities of the inland and
marts by the sea, at whose wharves
ships of oil nations ride at anchor,
freighted with richly laden argosies !;
wealth and enterprise have built and
are building thousands OF miles of rail-
way, connecting us withldistant States,
and are now digging ship channels far
to the inland. A taxable property of
three hundred millions of value--a
right royal heritage of eight millions
OF acres of public lands, with untold
mineral wealth sleeping in their
bosoms, and soil as generous as ever
rewarded the husbandman for his toll
with this and pictures such as these
OF our real life, why should we in day
and In n year like this not rejoice at
the splendid strides we have thus
made, while only yet In the manhood
of our years ? Such heritage, and
such prospect impose grave response
bilities upon each department of the
Government. Material wealth alone
constitutes but small element of the
greatness ola State. Let us, therefore,
as a Government, continue to incul-
cate the widest dissemination of intel
ligence among the people, respect for
public and private virtue, and faithful
obedience to the laws. The Executive.
Legislative and Judicial Departments
of the State Government are utterly
powerless in the execution OF the laws
for the preservation of public order
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