Zachary Taylor

Name: Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address
Author: Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

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“Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address”, published in 1849, is a work by Zachary Taylor. It explores elements such as continuance, Congress and duties.

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ It is to be hoped that no international question can now arise which a government confident in its own strength and resolved to protect its own just rights may not settle by wise negotiation; and it eminently becomes a government like our own, founded on the morality and intelligence of its citizens and upheld by their affections, to exhaust every resort of honorable diplomacy before appealing to arms. ”

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from 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. ”

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ I shall look with confidence to the enlightened patriotism of that body to adopt such measures of conciliation as may harmonize conflicting interests and tend to perpetuate that Union which should be the paramount object of our hopes and affections. In any action calculated to promote an object so near the heart of everyone who truly loves his country I will zealously unite with the coordinate branches of the Government. ”

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ The legislative and judicial branches of the Government present prominent examples of distinguished civil attainments and matured experience, and it shall be my endeavor to call to my assistance in the Executive Departments individuals whose talents, integrity, and purity of character will furnish ample guaranties for the faithful and honorable performance of the trusts to be committed to their charge. With such aids and an honest purpose to do whatever is right, I hope to execute diligently, impartially, and for the best interests of the country the manifold duties devolved upon me. ”

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ In all disputes between conflicting governments it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral, while our geographical position, the genius of our institutions and our people, the advancing spirit of civilization, and, above all, the dictates of religion direct us to the cultivation of peaceful and friendly relations with all other powers. ”

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ It shall be my study to recommend 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 ”

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ As American freemen we can not but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations. ”

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ Elected by the American people to the highest office known to our laws, I appear here to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, and, in compliance with a time-honored custom, to address those who are now assembled. ”

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Zachary Taylor, Zachary Taylor's Inaugural Address (1849)

“ 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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