Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-03-07
PRESIDENT N kinney |NAUGJRAID
The Inauguration The Most Brilliant in The
Nations History.

! guidance, direction and favor of AL
mighty God. | should shrink from du-
! ties this GEy assumed if | did not feel
| that in their performance l should
! have the cooperation OF wise and pa
| triotc men OF all parties.
| 1t encourages me for the great task
which | now undertake to believe that
| those who voluntarily committed to
me the trust imposed upon the Chief
Executive of the Republic, will give to
me generous support in my duties TO
| preserve, protect and defend the CON
stitution of the United States" and to
care that laws be faithfully executed"
STRONG HEARTS NEEDED.
Strong hearts and helpful hands are
needed, and fortunately, we have them
in every part OF our beloved country.
We are reunited. Sectionalism has dis
appeared.
Division on public questions can no
longer be traced by the war maps OF
1861. These old differences less and
less disturb the judgment. Existing
problems demand the thought and
quicken the conscience of the country,
| and responsibility for their presence
as we'll as for their righteous settle
ment, rests upon us all, no more upon
ma than upon you. There are some ma
tiOnal questions in solution OF which
patriotism should exclude partisanship.
Magnifying their difficulties will not
take them off our hands nor facilitate
their adjustment Distrust of the ca
pacity, integrity, and high purposes Of
TIE American peOaple will not be in
spring them for future political con-
tests. Dark pictures and gloomy fore
bOdingS are worse than useless.
These only becloud, they do not
help to point the way Of safety and
honor. Hope make thee not asham-
ed"
Prophets of evil were not builders Of
the republic, nor in it's crises since,
have they saved or served it. The faith
Of the fathers was mighty force in
it's creation, and the faith of their de-
scGndar'.S has wrought its progress
and furnished its defenders. They are
ObstructiOnistS who despair and who
would destroy confidence in the ability
Of our people to solve, wisely and for
civilization, the mighty problems rest
ing upon them.
Our institutions will not deteriOate
by extension, and our sense OF justice
will not abate under trOpic suns in dis
tant seas
AS heretofore, so hereafter will the
nation demonstrate it's fitness to adj
minister any new estate which events
devolve upon it, and in the fear of God
will take occasion by the hand and
make bounds of freedom wider yield
If there are those among us who
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must not be disheartened, but more
earnestly dedicate ourselves to the task
upon which We have rightly entered.
We will be cOnsOled, with the fact
that opposition has confronted every
onward movement of the Republic from
its opening hour until now. but with
out success. The Republic has marched
on and on, and it's every step has ex-
allied freedom and humanity. We are
undergoing the same ordeal as did OUT
predecessors nearly q century ago. We
are following the course they blaZed
They triumphed. Will their successors
f3lter, and plead organic impotency in
the nation? We adhere to the principle
Of equality among ourselves, and by
no act Of ours will we assign to our
selves a subordinate ran in the family
Of nations.
My fellow citizens, the public events
OF the past four years have gone into
history. The part which the United
States bore so honorably in the thrill
ing scenes in China, while new to
Americn laife, has been in harmony
with its spirit and best traditions, and
in dealing with results its policy will
be that of moderation and fairness.
CUBAN RELATIONS.
We face, at this moment, the most
important question-that Of future re-
lations of the United States and Cuba.
With our near neighbors we must re-
main close friends.
The declaration OF purposes Of this
government in the resolution Of April
18th, 1898, must be made good Ever
since the evacuation OF the Island by
the army of Spain the Executive with
all practicable speed has been assisting
the people in successive steps neces-
sary to establish a free and independ-
eEt government, prepared to assume
and perform the obligations of inter
national law which nod rests upon the
United States, under the treaty of
Paris. The convention elected by the
people to frame a constitution is ap-
preaching the completion if its labors.
The transfer OF American control to
the new government, OF such great i'm
portance, involving an obligation re-
sultlng from our Intervention and
treaty of peace, that ! an glad to be
advised by the recent act Of Congress
Of the policy which the Executive