PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL SPEECH.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1586, 28 May 1861, Page 5

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL SPEECH.

The oeremony of Mr. Lincoln's inaguratidri as President took placelon Mouday, "4ft.li JJilarch, at' Wishingfpn^ The following is a summary of the- speeoh delivered by President Linooln on the oooasion. After' a few, preliminary remarks Mr/ Lincoln' said : -—^ Apprehensions seems to exist among thp, people of the United States, that by the accession of: the republican administrator their property, peaoe ? atid^ l^tsonafVeourity are endangered/ Tfcpr'e has p'eyer been any reasonable cause. for such; an apprehension. I quote one of. my former speeches, id" Whioh I declared that I hava np purpose direbtly ( or"indseJotrjr, T to in- ! terfere c .wltji : |^e,instituUo(i,pif,.s) i ftx er y i& [States where it exists. I. believes* I have no lawful right, as I have no iiiclination to do so. Those who' iiominSlfed and elected me, placed on the platform for my aoceptanoe, and as a law., for, themselves and me, the following resolutions : — It ia resolved that the maintenance inviolate ofthe rights of the States, and espeoially ; the rights of eapiir§ta\^;to'^} , der and oontrol/its own institutions ae* cording to it«; ,pwn judgment, is exclusively essential to that balanoe of power on which the perfection and enduranoe of our politioal fabric depend. We denounce lawless invasion of armed force upon any Stale or territory, no matter under what pretence, as . thi gravest of crimes/ I now reiterate tthese sentiments, and press upon publio attention that the pro^peHty^p^ce, 'jand seourity of no section arp endangered by the incoming administrators There is muoh controversy respecting the delivering up of fugitives from'; sfoVVice pr labour. The following clai.us.e i^,' hjpwevert, plainly wrii* ten in the Constitution- :h-' No person held to service or labour tinder the lawi thereof escaping, into .another State in consequence, pr regulation therein shall be discharged from suoh service or labour, but shall 'be delivered up ou the claim';ofttfe party to whom suoh service or labour shjall, be dtje.' To the proposition that .the,, slaves} whose cases oome within the term 8 of this law shall be delivered r up/'raebabers*of Coiigresf' are bound by^oatTjjr 1 ,',! ioojk the pffic^il oath to-day* with'nb mental. !i^eiyatwbg|. and with no purpose of oon^rj^iog^ijbyl^ Constitution otAiiwa H by\hi.f^^i^^^^-. rules/" J enterupon my and peculiar r dlfil.oulMfs.v The:(§jnH?vi, tion of >our-' liberal Union, herpoßrer menaced is noW'ibmid^MatUp^uW?ly hold that in coiitemplaTing ou^^pfsal