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There Is A Power In Public Opinion In This Country - And I Thank God For It: For It Is The Most Honest And Best Of All Powers - Which Will Not Tolerate An Incompetent Or Unworthy Man To Hold In His Weak Or Wicked Hands The Lives And Fortunes Of His Fellow-citizens.

I Shall Tread In The Footsteps Of My Illustrious Predecessor.

We Remain At Peace With All Nations, And No Efforts On My Part Consistent With The Preservation Of Our Rights And The Honor Of The Country Shall Be Spared To Maintain A Position So Consonant To Our Institutions.

Railroad Carriages Are Pulled At The Enormous Speed Of Fifteen Miles Per Hour By Engines Which, In Addition To Endangering Life And Limb Of Passengers, Roar And Snort Their Way Through The Countryside, Setting Fire To The Crops, Scaring The Livestock, And Frightening Women And Children. The Almighty Certainly Never Intended That People Should Travel At Such Break-neck Speed.

I Only Look To The Gracious Protection Of The Divine Being Whose Strengthening Support I Humbly Solicit, And Whom I Fervently Pray To Look Down Upon Us All. May It Be Among The Dispensations Of His Providence To Bless Our Beloved Country With Honors And With Length Of Days; May Her Ways Beways Of Pleasantness, And All Her Paths Be Peace.