Show DAY THE ath of march 1869 has been looked forward to with exceeding ireat great interest by the people of the united unite states generally vi ally aily it has at length dawned and being heing the day appointed by law for the inauguration of the president elect it is fraught with tremendous interests to the nation the last eight years have been the most momentous in our national exist ence during that time our national escutcheon has been cleansed from the foul blot of slavery which hns has added millions of freemen tv to our population and during the gamb iamb period the most gigantic and fiercely contested civil war ever inaugurated auguTa augu rated ted has been subdued and hy dra headed treason stairl stamped ped out As might naturally be ex expected acted during the settlement of such mighty issues t the he development of our national resources has been greatly retarded and general prosperity impeded and that there are still many conflicting interests to be reconciled conci led before the harmony and prosperity for which the nation was once so celebrated can be hoped for again in their falness ful ness the work of restoration and reconciliation has been retarded ma serially teri ally by the fierce strife which has existed between congress and the executive but neevil has yet been wrought or inflicted beyond the power of wise legislation to remedy the nation at f large looks with confidence to the incoming administration to accomplish the great work yet to be donel done and it is to be hoped that an erain which the bitterness of political partisanship and sectional animosity will be modi modified tied or forgotten and in which the united states will start anew in her progress g to national prosperity and greatness has dawned today to day the new chief magistrate of the nation 11 although elected by the publican republican Ee p panty party Y disclaims the idea of being apart aparto y man he has emphatically proved himself the man of the people in the time of the nations greatest peril when the massed forces of secession seemed determined to rend the union his skill coolness and determined courage crushed the flower and strength of the southern chivalry gave the death blow to the confederate cause and ended the war this man is now to a very great extent if his life should be spared the arbiter of the nations c destiny for tor at least the next four years his character for reticence and discretion so remarkably developed durin duning during n his bis career will stand him in excellent I 1 l e elle eile 1 service in his new position and will certainly mark the character of his administration it is these qualities in the man which have inspired all sections of the country and all elas clag classes ses of the people whether republicans or democrats with alth the high hopes for the future of the nation now entertained from him and ana his administration tra tion that the nation at large may speedily feel the benefits of the policy about to be inaugurated and that the president may have wisdom imparted to him to heal every wound not yet healed to purify rif y the administration of every department of the government and to start the nation once again on the highway to that proud position to which she is designed by providence and for which her position and resources so eminently preeminently pre qualify her all must ardently pray |