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On Receiving From The People The Sacred Trust Twice Confided On My Illustrious Predecessor, And Which He Has Discharged So Faithfully And So Well, I Know That I Can Not Expect To Perform The Arduous Task With Equal Ability And Success.

My Conviction Of The Necessity Of Further Legislative Provisions For The Safe-keeping And Disbursement Of The Public Moneys And My Opinion In Regard To The Measures Best Adapted To The Accomplishment Of Those Objects Have Been Already Submitted To You.

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.

If Laws Acting Upon Private Interests Can Not Always Be Avoided, They Should Be Confined Within The Narrowest Limits, And Left Wherever Possible To The Legislatures Of The States.

I Shall Tread In The Footsteps Of My Illustrious Predecessor.