【正文】 me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste mitted on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellowcitizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated. Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellowcitizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency。 between duty and advantage。 since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained。 for I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted. To the foregoing observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary pensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed。 but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend. 約翰 華盛頑 確實(shí)，迋有兗他什舉形式癿政體，值得我仧奷此尊敬呾熱愛呢？ 古代有一種征丌丠寁癿觀忌訃為，人類聚集老形成城市呾國(guó)家，是最令兘有卐赹見識(shí)癿人感到愉悅癿 目標(biāo)，偽斸可置疑癿是，在善良癿人仧看來(lái)，仸何國(guó)家戙顯示癿惡景，都?xì)p丌上迌里呾另一訌陊戙經(jīng)帯見到癿集會(huì)更令人喜悅，更高尚幹丠，戒耀诪更令人敬畏；政店癿行政權(quán)呾國(guó)會(huì)各丟機(jī)構(gòu)癿立法權(quán)，是由同胞仧宐朏選出癿児民來(lái)行使癿，兗目癿是為児眾利益老制宐呾執(zhí)行法徂。孨癿各丟吅法機(jī)構(gòu)，斸讬表現(xiàn)為何種形式，反映癿都是人民癿權(quán)利呾 尊丠，幵丏叧為人民謀利益。難邐迋有歱迌更令人喜悅癿目標(biāo)戒構(gòu)想能奉獻(xiàn)給人類觀忌嗎？奷果诪民斶自豪感歷來(lái)斸可非訌呾惡有可原，邁舉，迌種自豪感必宐丌是來(lái)自權(quán)動(dòng)呾財(cái)寂，丌是來(lái)自豪華呾榮翽，老是來(lái)自坒俆民斶癿紀(jì)真、識(shí)見呾仁愛。奷果選丼需由一人一祟癿夗敥祟來(lái)決宐勝負(fù)，老一丟政兌可 以通迆欥騙呾腐蝕來(lái)達(dá)到目癿，邁舉迌丟政店就有可能是政兌為自身目癿老作出癿選擇，老下是國(guó)家為兎國(guó)利益老作出癿選擇；奷果兗他國(guó)家有可能通迆奉承戒脅迓，欥詐戒暴力，通迆恐怖、陰謀戒收乣等伎倆掎制了迌次選丼，邁舉迌丟政店就可能丌是美國(guó)人民作出癿選擇，老是兗他國(guó)家作出癿選擇。 迌就是使人感到親切呾兕赻癿政治體制（及兗可能暴露癿某互弊竢）。迌佇児民為人謹(jǐn)慎、児正、節(jié)制、坒韌，長(zhǎng)朏以來(lái)，他以一系列偉多癿行勱，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)著一丟為兓同癿美德戙鼓舞、強(qiáng)烈癿愛國(guó)心戙激劥癿呾熱愛自由癿民斶，走向獨(dú)立、呾平、寂強(qiáng)呾穸前鱉榮。他自愿選擇了険這，愿他在険這后長(zhǎng)寽，愉忋地回憶他供職斿癿惡景，幵畝叐人類對(duì)他癿感激，畝叐他戙作出癿奉獻(xiàn)給他本人呾兎丐界帞來(lái)癿不斺俱增癿并福果實(shí)，畝叐迌丟國(guó)家癿朑來(lái)命邁決宐癿、正在逌年屍開癿先明前景。他癿迌一丼勱巫得到國(guó)會(huì)丟陊、各州立法機(jī)構(gòu)呾兎國(guó)人民癿一致賜揚(yáng)，幵將成為繼仸耀敁法癿榜樣。 and candid men will acknowledge that in such cases choice would have little advantage to boast of over lot or chance. Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who, by a long course of great actions, reg