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1、第 1 页 加菲尔德总统就职演说(1)1 特征码 ICmZJgqeyMTsoSgJHloo Fellow-Citizens: We stand to-day upon an eminence which overlooks a hundred years of national lifea century crowded with perils, but crowned with the triumphs of liberty and law. Before continuing the onward march let us pause on this height for a moment
2、 to strengthen our faith and renew our hope by a glance at the pathway along which our people have traveled. It is now three days more than a hundred years since the adoption of the first written constitution of the United Statesthe Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. The new Republic was
3、 then beset with danger on every hand. It had not conquered a place in the family of nations. The decisive battle of the war for independence, whose centennial anniversary will soon be gratefully celebrated at Yorktown, had not yet been fought. The colonists were struggling not only against the armi
4、es of a GREat nation, but against the 第 2 页 settled opinions of mankind; for the world did not then believe that the supreme authority of government could be safely intrusted to the guardianship of the people themselves. We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, a
5、nd the sum of mon sense with which our fathers made the GREat experiment of self- government. When they found, after a short trial, that the confederacy of States, was too weak to meet the necessities of a vigorous and expanding republic, they boldly set it aside, and in its stead established a Nati
6、onal Union, founded directly upon the will of the people, endowed with full power of self-preservation and ample authority for the acplishment of its great object. Under this Constitution the boundaries of freedom have been enlarged, the foundations of order and peace have been strengthened, and the
7、 growth of our people in all the better elements of national life has indicated the wisdom of the founders and given new hope to their descendants. Under this Constitution our people long ago made themselves safe against da 第 3 页 anger from without and secured for their mariners and flag equality of
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