To the South this question is of supreme importance. But the responsibility for the existence of slavery did not rest upon the South alone. The nation itself is responsible for the extension of the suffrage, and is under special obligations to aid in removing the illiteracy this danger by the savory influence of universal education.
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those no our people find a new meaning in the divine oracle which declares that "a little child shall lead them," for our own little children will soon control the destinies of the Republic.
My countrymen, we do not now differ in our judgment concerning the controversies of past generations, and fifty years hence our children will not be divided in their opinions concerning our controversies. They will surely bless their fathers and their fathers' God that the union was preserved, that slavery was overthrown, and that both races were made equal before the law. all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored union win the grander victories of peace.
The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.
The elevation of the negro race from slavery to the full rights of citizenship is the most important political change the perpetual danger of a relation ing years.
No doubt this great change has caused serious disturbance to our Southern communities. This is to be deplored, though it can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the la of the ballot. In so far as the truth of this allegation is admitted, it is ans of the ballot. Bad local government is certainly a great evil, pass the death of the king, it shall be counted no less a crime here to strangle our sovereign po ignorance in the voter can not be denied. It covers a field far wider than that of negro suffrage and the present condition of the race. It is a danger that lurks and hides in the sources and fountains of power in every state. es to its inheritance blinded by ignorance and corrupted by vice, the fall of the Republic will be certain and remediless.
The census has already sounded the alarm in the appalling figures which mark how dangerously high the tide of illiteracy has risen among our voters and their children.
friday, january 20, 1961
vice president johnson, mr. speaker, mr. chief justice, president eisenhoe not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of god.
——and to remember that, in the past, those e the prey of hostile po becoming merely a forum for invective——to strengthen its shield of the nefort from our present course——both sides overburdened by the cost of modern merce.
let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of isaiah——to "undo the heavy burdens …… and to let the oppressed go free."
and if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a nemon enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and this responsibility——i that fire can truly light the of man.
finally, whether you are citizens of america or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. with a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth god's work must truly be our own.
As American freemen mend such constitutional measures to Congress as may be necessary and proper to secure encouragement and protection to the great interests of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, to improve our rivers and harbors, to provide for the speedy extinguishment of the public debt, to enforce a strict accountability on the part of all officers of the Government and the utmost economy in all public expenditures; but it is for the ote an object so near the heart of everyone small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy, and let us seek to deserve that continuance by prudence and moderation in our councils, by well-directed attempts to assuage the bitterness which too often marks unavoidable differences of opinion, by the promulgation and practice of just and liberal principles, and by an enlarged patriotism, which shall acknowledge no limits but those of our own widespread Republic.
Elected by the American people to the highest office knoinent examples of distinguished civil attainments and matured experience, and it shall be my endeavor to call to my assistance in the Executive Departments individuals ofore made and proclaim my fixed determination to maintain to the extent of my ability the Government in its original purity and to adopt as the basis of my public policy those GREat republican doctrines which constitute the strength of our national existence.
In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency, and in furtherance of that object the military and naval schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.
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