Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-05
the INAUGURAL apossss,
Full Text OF President C~lsvsisnd's Re-
marks Yesterday.

thk MAuGukAl AoDRESS.
Fu1 Text OF President Clsvsisnd's Re-
marks yesterday.
FnLow CITIZENS lin the presence OF
this ysst asstmblsge Of my countrymen l
am about 10 supplement and seal By an
oath which | snail take, ne manifestation
Of the will Of = great and free people. In
the exercise OF their power and right of
selEgoStrnment they have committed to
one Of their fellow ~ci.izens q supreme and
sacred trust, aud he here cOnsecrstes him.
self to their service. This impressive cere.
moDy adds little to the solemn sense OF
responsibility with which contemplate the
duty | owe to all the people Of the land
Nothing can relieve me from anxiety lest
by any act Of mine their interests
may suffer and nothing is needed to
9 strengthen my resolution or to engage every
faculty aud effort In the promotion OF their
welfare. Amid din and party strife tue
peoples choice was made, but is attendant
CT, eumstances have demonstrated new
strength and safety of the government By
the Leople. In each succeeding year it
more clearly appears that our Democratic
principles need no apology and that in Its
fsarls IS and faithful appreciation is to be
found the surest guarantee OF q good gov
rnment But the best results In the opera
ton of the government wherein every
citizen has q share, largely depend upon
the proper limitation of purely partisan
zeal aad effort and q correct appreciate IN Ct
the time when the heat Of ~partlsauship
should be merged into the patriotism Of the
citizen. To-day the Executive bench
OF the Government is transferred to new
keeping, but this is still the government Of
all the people and it should be none the less
an object OF their sffectionate soicitude.
At this hour the luminosity OF political strife,
the bitterness of partisan defeat and the
exultation of partisan triumph, should be
supplanted by ungrudging acquiesence in
the popular will and sober conscientious
concern for the general welfare.
Renewing the Pledge.
Moreover, if from this hour we cheerfully
and honestly abandon all sectional preju-
dice and distrust, and determine with manly
confidence in one another, to work out har-
moniously the achievements of our national
destiny, We shall deserve to realize all the
benefits which our happy form Of govern
ment can bestow. On this suspicious occa-
sion we may well renew the pledge of our
devotion to the Constitution, which, launched
by the founders of the republic, and conse-
Grated by their prayers, and patriotic deyo-
tioo, has for almost a century borne the
hopes and aspirations Of a great people
through prosperity and peace, and through
the shock Of foreign conflicts and the perils
of domestic strife and yicissitudes. BY the
father Of his country our constitution was
amended BY adoption as the result of a
spirit of amity and mutual concession"
In that same spirit it should be admins
trated in order to promote the lasting well
fare of the country, and to secure the full
measure Gifts priceless benefits to US, and
TO those who will succeed to the blessings of
our National life. The large variety of di.
verse ard competing interests, subject to
Federal control, persistently seeking the
recognition of their claims need give US no
tear that the greatest good to the greatest
number will fail to be accomplished, if in
the halls of national legislation that spirit
of amity and mutual concession shall pre-
vail, in which the Constitution had its birth.
II this involves the surrender or postpone
ment OF private interests, and the abandon
ment of local advantages, compensation
will be found in the assurance that thus the
common interests are subserved and the
general welfare advanced. In the discharge
of my official duty l shall endeavor to be
guided by a Just and unstrsined construction
OF the Constitution, a careful observance Of
the distinction between the powers granted
the Federal Government and those reserved
to the States, or to the people, and BY a
conscientious appreciation OF these functions,
which By the Constitution and laws have
been specially assigned to the executive
branch of the Government.
But he who takes the oath to-day to pre-
serve, protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States, only assumes the
solemn obligation which
Every Patriotic Citizen
on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy
marts of trade, and everywhere should
share with him. The Constitution which pre-
scribes his oath, my cOuntrymen, is yours.
The Government you have chosen him to
administer is yours
The suffrage which executes the will Of
freemen is yours. The laws and the entire
scheme Of our civil rule from the town meet
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