The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21

their hands the trust committed to me, and TO
claim the Indulgence of retiring from the serY-
ice of my country.
Happy in the confirmation of our independ-
ence and sovereignty, and pleased with the OPP
portunity afforded the United States of becom-
ing respectable nation, resign with satisfac-
t1on the appointment [ accepted with difidence /;
q ditidence in my abilities to accomplish so
arduous a task; which however was superseded
by confidence in the rectitude of cause,
the support of the supreme power of the Union,
and the patronage OF heaven.
1.-The successful termination of the war has
verified the most sanguine expectations; and
my gratitude for the interposition OF Provi-
dence, and the assistance l have received from
my cOuntrymen, increases with every review OF
the mOmentous contest.
While repeat my obligations to the army in
general, should do in justice to my own feel
| lngs not to acknowledge, in this place, the
peculiar services and distinguished merits of
the gentlemen who have been attached TO my
person during he war. 1t was Impossible the
choice of confidential officers to compose my
family should have been more fortunate. Per-
NIT me, Sir, to recommend, in particular, those
who have continued in tn service to the pres
emit moment, us worthy OF the favorable notice
and patronage of Congress.
Il consider it an Indispensable duty to close
this last act of my Official life by commencing
the interests of our dearest country to the pro-
lection of Almighty God, and those who have
the superintendent of them to his holy keep
ing,
I retire from the great theater of action, and
| bidding an atfectionate farewell to this august
body, under whose orders have so long acted,
here offer my commission, and take my leave
OF all the employments of public life"
HIS FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
In accordance with previous arrangements,
Gen. Washington met Congress in New York on
| the Both of April, 1885, for tie purpose of being
lnaugurated as the first President Of the United
States. The oath of Office having been admins
tered by the Chancellor of the State of New
York, i'll presence of the Senate and House of
Representatives the President delivered the fol-
lowing inaug raj address:
"FELLow-CITIzENs OF THE SENATE, AND OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Among the
vicissitudes incident to life, no event could
have filled me with greater anxieties than that
Of which the notification was transmitted by
your order, and received on the 18th dav of the
present month. On the one hand. I was sum
moned by my country, whose voice I can never
hear but with veneTation and love, from re-
treat which had chosen with the fondest pre-
objection, and, i'll my hattering hopes, with an
lmmutable decision, as the asylum OF my de-
clinng years; @ retreat which was rendered
every day more necessary, as we'll as more dear
| to me- by the addition of habit to inclination
| and of frequent interruptions in my health, to
| the gradual waste committed IL by time
| On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty
| of the trust to which the voice of my country
called me- being sufficient to awaken in the
wisest and most experienced of her citizens q
distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications,
could not but overwhelm with dependency
one who, inheriting inferior endOwments from
nature, and Impractical in the duties of civil
administration ought to be peculiarly conscious
of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emo
tions, oil dare aver, is, that it has been my
fai, hful study to collect my duty from just
appreciation of every c1rcums lance by which it
might be affected. All l dare hope, is that it,
in executing this task have been too much
swayed by q grateful remembrance of former
instances, or by affectionate s3nsibility to
this transcendant proof of the confidence of my
fellowc1tizens, and have thence too little con-
suited my incapacity we'll as Discrimination
Tor the Welghty and untried cares before me, my
error will be palliated by the motives which
misled me- and it's consequences be judged by
my country, with some share of the Partially
in which they originated
Such being the impressions under which
have, IN obedience to the public summons, re-