ernment for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness; so His divine blessings may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this government must depend.

WASHINGTON'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS

PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 4, 1793.

FELLOW-CITIZENS.

I am again

called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence which has been reposed in me by the people of the United States of America. Previous to the execution of any official act of the President, the Constitution requires an oath of office. This oath I am now about to take and in your presence; that if it shall be found, during my ad* See Appendix, page 196.

ministration of the government, I have, in any instance, violated, willingly or knowingly, the injunction therof, I may (besides incurring constitutional punishment) be subject to the upbraidings of all who are now witnesses of the present solemn ceremony.