Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-30

with the principal citizens OF the place,
and held a reception in the parlors OF
the inn. This quaint old tavern was in
existence until quite recently.
At every village and town on the road,
Washington was met by the people In |
holiday attire and hailed as the founder |
of a new nation and the saviour OF the |
Republic. When he reached Elizabeth |
town he was escorted on board beauti-
fully decorated barge, and from thence
was rowed to New York, where he
landed, as Harrison landed yesterday, a.
the foot of Wall street. He was
escorted to the building where
the Inauguration was to take
place. It was on the spot
where the Sub Treasury building now
is. at the corner of Wall and Nassau
streets. When THE oath of office had
been delivered, he stepped out on the
platform, and facing the multitude as
sembled, delivered the following inaug-
ural address:
wAsHINGToN's INAUGURAL.
"Among the vicissitudes incident to
life, no event could have filed me with
greater anxieties than that OF which the
notification was transmitted by your
order, and received on the l4th day OF
the present month. On the one hand, L
was summoned by my country, whose
voice can never hear but with venera-
ton and love, from retreat which had
chosen with the fondest prediction,
and, in my fiattering hopes, with an I'M
mutable decision, as the asylum OF my
declining years; a retreat which was
rendered every day more necessary, as
we'll as more dear to me, by the addition
of habit to inclination, and by frequent
Interruptions in my health to the gradual
waste committed on it 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
| waken in the wisest and most expert
enced of her citizens distasteful scru-
| tiny into his qualifications, could not but
overwhelm with dependency one who,
| inheriting inferior endowments from
nature and unpracticed ia the duties OF
civil administration, ought to be pecu"
liarly conscious of his own Deficiencies.
In this conflict of emotions, all | dare
aver is that it has been my faithful study
to collect nv duty from just apprecia-
ton of every circumstance by which it
might be affected. ALI l dare hope is
1 bDdb IL III GAoCutAuS bllb bdrA L h0NO OCOA
| too much swayed by a grateful remem-
brance of former instances or by an
affectionate sensibility to this transcend
ent proof of the confidence of my fellow
citizens, and have thence too little con-
suited my incapacity as we'll as disincli-
nation for the weighty and untried cares
before me, my error will be palliated by
| { 10 motives which misled me, and its
I.oacao,opoac ba iuIOo1 hu INV ooY.nfru
with some share OF the partiality in
which they originated. Such being the
Impressions under which I have, in
obedience to the public summons, re-
paired to the present station, it would be
peculiarly improper to omit. in this first
official act, my iervent supplications to
that Almighty Being who rules over the
universe, who presides in the councils
of nations, and whose providential
aids can supply every human de-
feet, that his benediction may
consecrate to the liberties and the happi-
ness of the people of the United States,
a Government instituted by themselves
for these essential purposes, and may en-
able every instrument employed in its
administration to execute with success
the functions allotted to his charge. In
rendering this homage to the great Au-
thor of everv public and private good, l
assure myself that it expresses your sem
Iiments not less than my own; nor those
of my fellow-citizens at large less than
neither. No people can be bound to ac-
knowledge and adore the invisible hand
which conducts the affairs of men more
than the people of the United States.
Every step by which they have ad-
vanced to the character of an indepen-
dent nation seems to have been dis
tinguished by one token of providen-
tial agency. And, in the important rev.
olution Just accomplished, in the system
of their united Government, and the
| tranquil deliberations and voluntary
consent of 80 many distinct communities
from which the event has resulted, can
not be compared with the means by
which most Governments have been es-
tablished, without some return .of pious
gratitude, along with an humble antici-
patton of the future blessings which the
past seem to presage. Thege ref ctions,
arising out of the present crisis, have
forced themselves TOO strongly on my
mind to be suppressed. You will join
with me, trust, in thinking that there
are none, under the influence of which
the proceedings of new and free Gov
ernment can more auspiciously com.
mence.
"By the article establishing the Exec
utive Department it is made the duty of
the President to recommend to your con-
sideration such measures as he shall
judge necessary and expsdient.' The
circumstances under which now meet
you will acquit me from entering into
that subject further than to refer you to
the great constitutional charter under
which we are assem- bled; and which, in
defining your powers. designates the OBJ
jects to which your attention is to be
given. 1t will be more consistent with
these circumstances and far more con-
genial with the feelings which actuate
me, to substitute in place of a recommen-
dation of particular measures, the tribute
that is due to the talents, the rectitude
and the patriotism which adorn the
characters selected to devise and adopt
them. In these honorable qualifications
1 behold the surest pledges that, on one
side, no local prejudices or attachments,
no separate views or party animosities,
will misdirect the comprehensive and
equal eye which ought to watch over this
great assem- blage of communities and in.
terests; 30, on another, that the founda-
tions of our national policy will be laid in
the pure and immutable principles of pri-
vate morality, and that the pre.eminence
of q free government be exemplifed by
all the attributes which can win the affec-