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1、第 1 页 华盛顿届就职演说(2)1 特征码 XRgyNVTgheNTNzBwoWNB By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President “to remend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.“ The circumstances under which I now meet you will acquit me from entering i
2、nto that subject further than to refer to the great constitutional charter under which you are assembled, and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings w
3、hich actuate me, to substitute, in place of a remendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side
4、no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect 第 2 页 the prehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of munities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable
5、principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and mand the respect of the world. I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is
6、 no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; sin
7、ce we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred 第 3 页 fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of
8、government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the fift
9、h article of the Constitution is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the system, or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them. Instead of undertaking particular remendations on this subject, in which I could be guided b
10、y no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good; for I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which o
11、ught to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen 第 4 页 and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.