The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-03-13
INAUGURATION.

the inaugural address, which was deliv-
cred in the presence of $4,000 people.
The inaugural was concluded at two
Cleveland was Immediately sworn in by
Chief Justice Waite, of the L. S. Su-
preme Court. The following is Presi-
dent Cleveland's
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
FELLOW CITIZENS In the presence
OF this vast assemblage of my country,
/ am about to supplement and seal by
the oath which shall take the mani
festation OF the will of great and free
people. In the exercise of this power
and the right of self-government they
have committed 20 one of their fellow
citizens supreme and sacred trust, and
he here cousecrates himself to their
service. This impressive ceremony
adds little to the solemn sense of re-
sponsibility with which l contemplate
the duty L owe TO the people of this
land. Nothing can relieve me from
anxiety, lest by an act of mine their in
terests may suffer, and nothing is needed
to strengthen my resolution to engage
every faculty and effort in the promo
tion of their welfare, Amid the din of
party strife the peoples choice was
made but its attendant circumstances
have demonstrated new strength and
safety OF government by the people,
In each succeeding year it more clearly
appears that our Democratic principle
needs no apology and that in its fearless
and faithful application is to Oe found
the surest guaranty of good government.
But the best results in the operations
OF a government wherein every citizen
has a share largely depend upon the pro-
per limitation of purely partisan zeal and
effort, and a correct appreciation of the
time when the heat of partisan strife
should be merged in the patriotism of
the citizens. To-day the Executive
branch of the government is transferred
to new keeping, but this ia still the
government of all the people, and it
should be none the less an object of
their affectionate soiicitude. At this
hour the animosities of political strife,
the bitterness of partisan defeat, ard
the exultation of partisan triumph
should be supplanted by ungrudgiGg ac-
quiescence in the popular will and So
Der, conscientious concern for the popu-
lar veal. Moreover, if from this hour
we cbeerfullY and honestly abandon all
sectional prejudice and distrust, and de-
another, to work out harmoniousIy the
achievements of our national destiny,
we shall deserve to realize all the bene-
fits which our happy form Of govern
ment can bestow.
On this auspiciOus occasion we may
well renew the pledge of our devotion to
the constitution which, launched by the
founders of the republic, and cOnsecTa-
oA hv fhair un6 fAat 10 dpUn-
tiOn, mas for almost century borne the
hopes and aspirations of great people
through prosperity and peace, and thro'
the shock of feIe eign conflict and the
peril of domestic strife and yicssitudeS.
BY the Father of his Country our con-
stituJiOn was commended for adoption
as the result of a spirit of amity and
mutual concession - In that same
spirit il should be administered, in or
der to promote the lasting welfare of
this country, and 10 secure the full
measure of its priceless benefits to us
and to those who will succeed to the
blessings of our national life. The
large variety of diverse and competing
interests subject to Federal control,
peTsstently seeking the recognition of
their claims, need give us no fear that
"the greatest good TO the greatest num-
ber" will fail to be accomplished. If,
in the halls of national legislation, that
spirit of amity and mutual concession
shall prevail in which the constitution
had its birth if this involves the sur
render or pOstponement of private ID.
terests and the abandonment of local
advantages. compensation will he found
in the assurance that thus the common
interest is subserved and the general
welfare advanced.
In the discharge of official duty l shall
endeavOr to be guided by just and un-
strained construction of the Constitu-
tion, careful distinction between the
powers granted the Federal government
and those reserved to the States or to
the people, and by a cautious apprecia-
tion OF those functions which by the
constitution and laws have been especi-
ally assigned to the executive branch of
the government but he who takes the
oath to day to preserve, protect, and de-
fend the Constitution of the United
States, only assumes the solemn obliga-
tion which every patriotic citizen Cd the
farms, in the workshops, in the busy
marts of trade, and everywhere, should
share with him. The constitution that
prescribes his oath. my countrymen, is
yours. The government you have chO-
sen him to administer for time is
yours. The suffaage which executes
the will of freemeL is yours. The laws
and the entire scheme Of our civil rule,
from the Town meeting TO the State cap
ilals and the National Capital, are yours.
Yours, every voter, as surely as your
Chief Magistrate. under the same high
sanction, though in Z different sphere,
exercises a public trust. Nor is this
all. Every citizen owes to bis country
a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of
its public servants and fair and reas.
enable estimate of their fidelity and use
fulness. Thus is the peoples will! i'm
pressed upon the whole framework of
our civil pOlicy-municipal, State, and
Federal-and this is the price of our lib-
erty and the inspiration of our faith in
the Republic.
1t is the duty of those serving The peo-
pie in public places to closely limit the
act ual needs of the govern ment, ecunom
ically administered, because this bounds
the right of the government To exact
tribute from the earnings of labor or the
properly of cit iiZeus. AID because pchlic
eXtraYagance among the people. We
should never be ashamed OF the s.mplic-
ity and prudential economies that which
are best suited TO Tue operation OF a
Republican form Of government and
most compatible with the mission of the
American people. Those who are select
ed for a limited time 10 manage public
affairs are still of the people. and may
do much by th"ir xample to encourage
consistently with the dignity of their
official functions, that plain waL of life
which among their fellow citizens. aids
integrity and promotes thrift aud pros
peTitV