![]() Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public place, and it will go far toward strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world, and will ultimately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay. To protect the national honor, every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. The payment of this, principal and interest, as well as the return to a specie basis as soon as it can be accomplished without material detriment to the debtor class or to the country at large, must be provided for. All laws to secure these ends will receive my best efforts for their enforcement.Ī great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union. This requires security of person, property, and free religious and political opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to local prejudice. In meeting these it is desirable that they should be approached calmly, without prejudice, hate, or sectional pride, remembering that the greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained. The country having just emerged from a great rebellion, many questions will come before it for settlement in the next four years which preceding Administrations have never had to deal with. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. Laws are to govern all alike-those opposed as well as those who favor them. I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people. On all leading questions agitating the public mind I will always express my views to Congress and urge them according to my judgment, and when I think it advisable will exercise the constitutional privilege of interposing a veto to defeat measures which I oppose but all laws will be faithfully executed, whether they meet my approval or not. ![]() I bring to it a conscious desire and determination to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people. ![]() The office has come to me unsought I commence its duties untrammeled. The responsibilities of the position I feel, but accept them without fear. I have taken this oath without mental reservation and with the determination to do to the best of my ability all that is required of me. YOUR suffrages having elected me to the office of President of the United States, I have, in conformity to the Constitution of our country, taken the oath of office prescribed therein. ![]()
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