The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-04-07
THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY. APRIL 7.
inaugural Address of President
Hayes.

SAL CRDA 1.APhLL -
inaugural Address of President
Hayes.
WASHINGTON. March 5sh.-FoIIowing is the
address by President Hayes to-dsy on the Oc-
casion Of his Inauguration
Fellow citizens: We have assembled to re peat
the public ceremonial begun by Washington,
observed by all my predecessors, and now a
time-honored custom which marks the commence
ment of Q new term of the presidential ONCE.
Called to the duties of this great trust, l pro-
coed in compliance with usage to announce some
Of the leading principles on subjects that now
chiefly engage public attention, by which it may
desire to be guided in the discharge of those
duties. | shall not undertake TO lay down
irrevocably the principles or measures of the
administration, but rather to speak of,
THE MOTIVES WHICH SHOULD ANIMATE Us,
And suggest certain important ends to be at
tanned. in accordance with our institutions and
essential to the welfare of our country. At the
outset Of the discussion which preceded the
recent presidential election, 1T seemed TO me
fitting that | should fully make known my senti-
ments in regard TO several important questions
which then appeared TO demand the considera-
ton Of the country. Following the example
and in part adopting the language OF one OF my
predecessors, l wish now, when every motive
for Misrepresentation has passed away, to repeat
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my countrymen will candidly weigh and under
stand it and they will feel assured that the senti-
ments declared in accepting the nomination for
the Presidency will be the standard OF my con-
duct in the path before me. charged, as L am,
with the grave and difficult task of carrying
them out in the practical administration of the
Government so far as depends under the consti-
tuition and laws on the chief executive of the
nation. The permanent pacifcation of the coun-
try upon such principles and by such measures
as will secure
COMPLETE PROTECTION OF ALL CITIZENS
In the free enjoyment of all their constitutional
rights is now the one subject in our public
affairs which all thoughtful and patriotic citizens
regard as of supreme Importance. Many of
the calamitous effects of the tremendous revolu-
ton which has passed over the Southern States
still remain. The unreasonable benefits which
viii surely follow, sooner or later, a hearty and
generous acceptance Of the legitimate results of
that revolution, have not yet been realized.
Difficult and embarrassing questions meet US at
the threshold of this subject. The people OF those
states are still impoverished and the ~inestimable
blessings of wise, honest and peaceful local
self-government are not fully enjoyed. What
ever difference of opinion may exist as 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.
public and private, of those states. But it must
not be forgotten that only local government
which recognizes and maintains i~nviolate the
rights of all is n true selfgovernment. With
respect to the two distinct races, whose peculiar
relations to each other have brought upon us
the deplorable complications and perplexities
which exist in those states, it must be the gov
eminent which
GUARDS THE INTERESTS OF BOTH RACES
Carefully and equally: it must be the govern
ment which submits loyalty and heartily to the
constitution and laws of the nation, and the laws
of the states themselves, accepting and obeying
faithfully the whole constitution as it is. Rest
ing upon this solid and substantial foundation,
the superstructure of benefcent local govern
ments can be built up, and not otherwise. In
furtherance of such obedience to the letter and
spirit of the constitution, and in behalf of all
that its attainments implies, all SO called party
interests lose their apparent Importance, and
party lines may well be permitted to fade into
insignifcance, The question we have to consider
for the immediate welfare of those states of the
Union is the question of government or no gov
eminent of social order and all peaceful indus
tries and happiness that belong to it, or a return
to barbarism. 1t is a question In which every
citizen of the nation is deeply interested, aud
with respect to which we ought not to be in a
partisan sense either Republicans or Democrats,
but
FELLOW CITIZENS AND FELLOW MEN,
To whom the interests of q common country, a
common humanity, are GEAR. Inc sweeping re-
v~olution in the entire labor system of a large
portion of our country, and the advance of A.
900 900 of people from a condition of servitude
to that of citizenship upon an equal footing with
their former masters, could not occur without
presenting questions of the gravest moment to be
dealt with by the emancipated race of .heir for
mer masters and by the General Government.
That the act of emancipation was a wise, Just
and providential act, fraught with good for all
concerned, is now generally conceded through
out the country that a moral obligation rests
upon the National Government to employ its con-
stitutional power and influence to establish the
rights of the people it has emancipated and to
protect them in the enjoyment of those rights
when they are ~infringed or assailed, is also gen.
orally admitted The evils which aflIct the
Southern States can only be removed or remedied
by united and harmonious efforts of both races,
actuated by motives of mutual sympathy and
regard and while in duty bound and fully de-
constitutional means at the disposal of my ad-
ministration, | am sincerely
ANXIOUS TO Use EVERY LEGITIMATE INFLUENCE
In favor of honest and efficient local self-govern-
ment as the true resource of those states, alike
with every other state of the Union, for the pro-
motion of the conte1tment and prosperity of
their citizens. In the effort l shall make to ac-
complish this purpose, l ask the cordial co-ope-
ration of all who cherish an interest in the well
fare of the country, trusting that party ties and
the prejudices of race will be freely surrendered
in behalf of the great purpose to be accomplished.
In the important work of restoration of the
South, it is the political situation alone that mer-
its attention. The material development of that
section of the country has been arrested by a
social and political revolution through which it
has passed, and now needs and deserves the con-
siderate care of the National Government with
in the just limits prescribed by the constitution
and a wise public economy. But at the basis of
ali prosperity for that as well as for every other
part of the country is improvement of the intel
lectual and moral condition of the people. Uni
yersal suffrage should rest upon
UNIVERSAL EDUCATION.
To this end liberal and permanent provision
should be made for the support of free schools