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Jackson's Second Inaugural.
When President Jackson was about to assume the office for a second term the question of state rights was the all absorbing topic of public interest.
The doctrine of nullification was at its height during the winter of 1832-33. South Carolina stood in a hostile attitude toward the federal government. The harmony of powers established by our system of government between the states and the federal government was threatened with destruction; consequently this was the main feature of that second inaugural of Jackson's.
How appropriately might its sentiments have been adopted by Mr. Lincoln when similar questions of state rights and federal supremacy over them, are agitating the country from center to circumference. Here are the views of President Jackson upon this all important and engrossing topic of interest to the people, the states, and the perpetuity of the federal union. Read and contrast them with the views in the second inaugural of Mr. Lincoln.
"My experience in public concerns and the observations in life somewhat advanced, confirm the opinions so long imbibed by me, that the destruction of our state governments, of the annihilation of their control over the local concerns of the people, would lead directly to revolution and anarchy, and finally to despotism and military domination.
In proportion, therefore, as the general government encroaches upon the rights of the states, in the same proportion does it impair its own power and detract from its ability to fulfill the purposes of its creation. Solemnly impressed with these considerations, my countrymen will ever find me ready to exercise my constitutional powers in arresting measures which may directly or indirectly encroach upon the rights of the states, or tend to consolidate all political power in the general government.
At the present juncture in our affairs as a people, scarcely a day passes that we do not hear some enthusiastic friend of the administration mourning because our country has not a second Jackson. Sincerely do we concur with all who pray for the return of the mantle of the hero, patriot and statesman upon the present administration. Recurring to the topic President Jackson says in the same inaugural.
"Deeply impressed with the truth of my observations, and under the obligations of that solemn oath which I am about to take, I shall continue to exert all my faculties to maintain the just powers of the Constitution; and to transmit unimpaired to posterity the blessings of our federal Union. At the same time it will be my aim to inculcate, by my official acts, the necessity of exercising by the general government those powers only that are clearly delegated. To encourage simplicity and economy in the expenditures of the government; to raise no more money from the people than may be requisite for these objects, and in a manner that best promotes the interest of all classes of the community and all portions of the Union."