, 1906-02-14

IL candidate for the chief magis
tracy a third time. While some
opposition to him had developed there
Is no doubt that he could have bcen
elected If he had permitted the use of
his name. His declination and the
reasons that impelled him to make it
established the unwritten law that no
president can serve more than two
terms. General Washington's refusal
to let his name be considered for q
third election was made in his historic
farewell address. 81 nm influenced"
he declared, "by no diminution of zeal
for your future interest, no deficiency
of grateful respect for your past kind
ness, but am supported by a full con
viction that the step is compatible with
BOTH" Continuing, he said:
Here, perhaps, I ought to stop, but a
solicitude for your welfare, which cannot
end but with my life, and the apprehen-
sion of danger natural to that solicitude
urge me, on an occasion like the present,
to offer to your solemn contemplation and
to recommend to your frequent review
some sentiments which are the result of
much reflection. of no ineonsiderable OBJ
servation, and which appear to me all i'm
portant to the permanency of your felicity
as a people. These will be offered to you
with the more freedom as you can only
see In them the disinterested warnings of
a parting friend who can possibly ave no
personal motive to bias his counsel.
In contemplating the causes which may
disturb our union. 1t occurs as a matter of
serious concern that any ground should
have been furnished for characterizing
parties by geographical discrimination
northern and southern. Atlantic and west
ern, whence designing men may endeavor
to excite a belief that there is a real diff
fernce of local interests and views. One
of the expedients of party to acquire in
fiuence within particular districts is to
misrepresent the opinions and aims of
other districts. You cannot shield your
selves too much against the jealousies and
heartburnings which spring from these
misrepresentation: they tend to render
alien to each other those who ought to
be bound together by fraternal affection.
1t is important, likewise. that the habits
of thinking in a free country should in
spire caution: in those intrusted with its
administration, to confine themselves
within their respective constitutional
spheres. avoiding in the exercise of the
powers of one department to eneroach
upon another. The spirit of encroach-
ment tends to consolidate the powers of
all the departments in one and THIS to
create, whatever the form of government.
a real despotism. A Just TINA nf that
love of power and proneness to abuse It
which predominates in the human heart
Is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of
thla position.
Observe good faith and justice toward
all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony
with all.
In the execution of such a plan nothing
is more essential han hat permanent in
veterate antipathies against particular ma
tons and passionate attachments for 9TH
ers should be excluded and that In place
of them just and amicable feelings toward
all should be cultivated. The nation
which INDUCES toward another a ha-
bitual hatred or a habitual ndness is in
some degree a slave. 1t is a slave to Its
luminosity or to its affection, either of
which is sufficient to lead 1t astray from
its duty and its interests.
Antipathy In one nation against another
disposes each more readily to offer insult
and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of
umbrage and to be naughty and intracta-
BILE when accidental or trifing occasions
of dispute occur; hence frequent COLI
sions, obstinate, envenomed and bloody
contests. The nation prompted by Ill will
and resentment sometimes impels to wal
the government, contrary to the best cal
culations of policy.
The government sometimes participates
in the national propensity and adopts
through passion what reason would re-
ject: at other times 1t makes the animos-
ity of the nation subservient to projects of
hostility instigated by pride, ambition and
other sinister and pernicious motives. The
peace often, sometimes perhaps the lib
erty, of nations has been the victim.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign
influence l %conjure you to believe me. my
fellow citizens, the jealousy of a free peo-
pie ought to be constantly awake. since
History and experience prove that foreign
influence is one of the most baneful foes
of republican government. But that jeal-
ousy to be useful must be impartial; else
1t becomes the instrument of the very in
fluence to be avoided, instead of a defense
against 1t. Excessive Partially for one
foreign nation and excessive dislike of
another cause those whom they actuaue
to see danger only on one side and serve
to veil and even second the arts of influ-
ence on the other. Real patriots, who
may resist the %intrigues of the favorite,
are liable to become suspected and odious,
while its tools and dupes usurp the ap-