Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-14

| THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS,
The President began his Inaugural
address at 12:45, Immediately after thu
procession reached the platform. Hi
appearance st the front of the platform
was greeted with shouts of applause
from the people, who stood, closely
packed, both in front and behind the
long lines of military that extended
from one end of the capitol grounds tx
the other. The address, although reao
| from manuscript, was delivered with
great animation, butalthough his voice
was clear and strong, it could not be
heard at any considerable distance
owing the noise of the multitude.
PRESIDENT HAYES ADDRESS.
FELLOW CITIZENS: We have assembled to re.
peat the public ceremonial begun by Washing.
ton, and OF served by all my predecessors and now
tme-honored custom, which MARKS the COM
fee Called to the duties of this great trust, ]
proceed III compliance with usage to announce
seme of the leading principles on the subjects that
now chiefly engage public attention, by which it is
nay desire to be guided in the discharge of those
duties shall not undertake to lay down ire
vocably the principles measures of administra-
ton, but rather to speak of the motives which
sheula animate us, and to suggest certain 1mpor-
tant ends to be attained in accordance with our in
sttutions, and essential to the welfare of our
country. At the outset of the discussions which
preceded the recent Presidential election it seemed
to me fitting that I should fully make known my
sentiments in regard to several of the important
questions which then appeared to demand the con-
slderatlon of the country. Following the example,
and in Part adopting the language, of one of my
predecessors. I wish now, when every motive for
Misrepresentation has PASSED away, to repeat what
was said before the election, trusting that my
countrymsn will candidly weigh and understand It.
and that they will feel assured that the sentiments
declared in accepting the nomination for the Presi-
dency will be the standard of ms conduct in the
path before ne, charged, as I now am, with the
grave and difficult task of carrying them out in
the practical administration of the government, so
far as depends under the constitution and laws on
the chief executive of the nation. The permanent
pacifcation of the country upon such principles
and by such measure as will secure the complete
protection of all its citizens 10 the free oyment of
ali their constitutional rights is now the one sub
Ject in our public affairs which all thoughtful and
patr lotto citizens regard of supreme Importance
Many Of the calamtous effects of the tremendous
revolution which has passed over the Southern
States still remain; the immeasureable benefits will
surely follow sooner, later The hearty and
generous acceptance of the legitimate results of
that revolution have not yet been realized, and
d1fhcuitts and embarrassing questions meet us at
the threshold of this subject. The people of these
states are still impoverished, and the estimable
blessing of wise. honest aud peaceful local self
government is not fully enjoyed. Whatever differ
ence CT opinion may exist to the cause of this
condition of things the fact is clear that in the
progress of events, the time has come when such
government Is an imperative necessity required by
all the varied interests, both public and private of
these states but it must not be forgotten that only
q local government, which recognizes and MAIN
taIns lnviolate the rights of all is true selfgov-
eminent with respect to the two distinct races
whose peculiar relations to each other having
brought upon us the deplorable complication and
perplexties which exist in these States 1t must be
government which decides the interests of both
races carefully and equally; it must be govern
ment " hch submits Loyalty and heartily to the con-
stitution Sand laws of the patton, and the laws of
the states Themselves accepting and obeying faith
fully the whole constitution it Is Resting upon
structure benefcient local government can be built
up, and not Otherwise. In furtherance of such
obedience to the letter and the spirit of the con-
sttution, and IN behalf Of all. its attainments,
party interests lose their apparent import
ance, and party lines may well be permitted
to fall into insignifcance. The ques-
OF those states of the Union is the question of gov
eminent or no government, of social order and all
the peaceful industries and the happiness that be-
longs to it, return to barbarism; it is Ques-
ton in which every citizen of the natien is deeply
interested, and with respect to which ought not
to be in partisan either Republicans or
Democrats, but fellow-citizens and fellow-men, to
whom the interests of the common country and
common humanity are dear. The sweeping revolu-
ton of the entire labor system of large portion of
our country, and the advance of four million peo-
pie from condition of servitude to that of citizen
ship, upon an equal footing with their former
masters, could not occur without presenting prob
the emancipated race, by their former masters and
by the general government the author OF the act OF
emancipation. That it was a wise, just and pro7i-
dental ac fraught with good for all concerned, is
now generally conceded throughout the country
That moral obligation rests upon the national
government to employ its constitutional powers
and influence to establish the rights of the people
it mas emancipated, and to protect them in the en-
joyment of those rights when they are in1ringed
assailed is also generally admitted. The evils
which aff1ict the Southern States can only be
mr. or nv nnitad Harmonious
efforts of both races, actuated by motives of mutual
sympathy and regard; and, while in duty bound and
fully determined to protect the rights OF an ey
every constitutional means at the disposal Of my
administration, am sincerely anxious to use every
legitimate influence in favor OF honest
and efficient a4sz the the true
motion of the contentment and prosperity ,of
their citizens. In the effort shall make to
plish this purpose, ask the cordial cooperation
of all, the consideration IF all who cherish in
terest in the welfare of the untrv, trusting that
party ties and prejudice of race will be freely
rendered in the impartial work of restoration of the
South.
It is not the political situation alone that merits
attention. The material development of that
ton of the country has been sted by the social
and political revolution through which it has passed,
and row needs and deserves the conslderate care
of the national government, within the just limits
prescribed by the constitution and wise public
economy. But at the basis of all prosperity for
that as we'll every other part of the country lies
the improvement of the intellectual and moral
condition of the people. Universal suffrage should
rest upon universal education. To this end liberal
and permanent provision should be made for the
support of free schools by the state governments,
and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid
from the national authority. Let me assure my
eountrymen of the Southern States, that it is my
earnest desire to regard and promote their truest
interests-the interests of the white and of the
coored people, both and equally, and to put forth
| my best efforts in behalf of civil policy which
will forever wipe out in political affairs the
color line and the distinction between North and
| South, to the end that we may have, not merely
| united North, or united South, but united
country.
ask the attention of the public to the para
mount necessity of reform in civil services
| reform not merely to certain abuses and prac
| tees of se-caled official patronage which have
come to the sanction of usage in the several depart
| ments of government, but change of thu
system of appointment ITSELF reform that shall
/ be thorough, radical and completes return to thu
! priu cipIes and practices of the founders of thu
| government They neither expected nor desired
| from public officers any partisan service; the.
meant that public officers should owe their servic
| to the government, and to the people; they mean
| that the officer should be secure in his tenure a
| long as his personal character remained unfair
nished, and the performance of his duties sat1sfac
tory They held that appointments to office Wer
not to be made nor expected merely as rewards TO
partisan services, nor merely on nomination 0
members Of Congress, as being entitled in any re
spect to control of such appointment. The fac
Il iooJ ortiau Of ho