State of the Union Addresses
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- about 125
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- History
- Language
- English
- Reading time
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From the opening
December 3, 1877
December 2, 1878
December 1, 1879
December 6, 1880
With devout gratitude to the bountiful Giver of All Good, I congratulate
you that at the beginning of your first regular session you find our
country blessed with health and peace and abundant harvests, and with
encouraging prospects of an early return of general prosperity.
To complete and make permanent the pacification of the country continues to
be, and until it is fully accomplished must remain, the most important of
all our national interests. The earnest purpose of good citizens generally
to unite their efforts in this endeavor is evident. It found decided
expression in the resolutions announced in 1876 by the national conventions
of the leading political parties of the country. There was a widespread
apprehension that the momentous results in our progress as a nation marked
by the recent amendments to the Constitution were in imminent jeopardy;
that the good understanding which prompted their adoption, in the interest
of a loyal devotion to the general welfare, might prove a barren truce, and
that the two sections of the country, once engaged in civil strife, might
be again almost as widely severed and disunited as they were when arrayed
in arms against each other.
The course to be pursued, which, in my judgment, seemed wisest in the
presence of this emergency, was plainly indicated in my inaugural address.
It pointed to the time, which all our people desire to see, when a genuine
love of our whole country and of all that concerns its true welfare shall
supplant the destructive forces of the mutual animosity of races and of
sectional hostility. Opinions have differed widely as to the measures best
calculated to secure this great end. This was to be expected. The measures
adopted by the Administration have been subjected to severe and varied
criticism. Any course whatever which might have been entered upon would
certainly have encountered distrust and opposition.
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