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1、第 1 页 加菲尔德总统就职演说(3)1 特征码 kvrwcXdEWlRiSORZbvLE To the South this question is of supreme importance. But the responsibility for the existence of slavery did not rest upon the South alone. The nation itself is responsible for the extension of the suffrage, and is under special obligations to aid in rem
2、oving the illiteracy which it has added to the voting population. For the North and South alike there is but one remedy. All the constitutional power of the nation and of the States and all the volunteer forces of the people should be surrendered to meet this danger by the savory influence of univer
3、sal education. It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown. Let our people f
4、ind a new meaning in the divine oracle which 第 2 页 declares that “a little child shall lead them,“ for our own little children will soon control the destinies of the Republic. My countrymen, we do not now differ in our judgment concerning the controversies of past generations, and fifty years hence
5、our children will not be divided in their opinions concerning our controversies. They will surely bless their fathers and their fathers God that the union was preserved, that slavery was overthrown, and that both races were made equal before the law. We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not pr
6、event, the final reconciliation. Is it not possible for us now to make a truce with time by anticipating and accepting its inevitable verdict? Enterprises of the highest importance to our moral and material well-being unite us and offer ample employment of our best powers. Let all our people, leavin
7、g behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored union win the grander victories of peace. The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Frui 第 3 页 itful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.
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