The Inauguration Of Lincoln

As (he li:.ii(s of tho cl'i-k pointed to the hour oí' 12 the hammer feil, :ind the -eeond eeRsion of thc 86th Cohgress o me (o in end. Viro President Breekinridge hado the Senate laruwell in wel) chosen and touching tonus. ft'r. Ilannibiil HamliO mudo somo remarka. Mr. Breckinridge thon administered ilie onth of office to Vico Président ííamiin. Mr. Breoktïrt'ió'gè then announcud thc Senate adjourned witbout tlay, and left tho chair, to whiub lie immediately üondiicted Vice President Hainlin. Hon. Mr. Oüngman was tlien sworn ii ís Senator lor the State ol North Carolina, (üark for Néw Hanrtsbire, Chase for Oliio, Harris tur New York, Harían fot lowa, FJowe for WHícoosiií, Breokiini idgo for Kentccky, Lana lor Indiana, Nesmtth for Oregon, and Mi'ichfll for Aikansas. At this juneture Iho membera and members e'ect oí' iho Hbuse of Repre een tot i ves entered the Senate chumber, (illirig evt-ry availablo space to llie léít ; of the Vice President. The corps oí diplotpflts álso en'eréd the cbamber at tho huirte moment-, oceupying seats to tberight oí the chair. It was :i subject ff general romaik that the cor e tiever were so fullv reprosented us 'on this ococsion, perqaps to be the last timo all are to bu ajjáin asemblud. Thc Ministers, oitt'nches, and others numbered in alisóme filty and over, and i lio brüiiancy of dress, tho number öf decorations, crosses, &c, added rnucli to the imposing oáture of t!e scone. Sorau of tho etíurt iiüilorsus woro ííorgcous, aod attracted muoh attëntion. 'Tiiü :lnl! 11 tho Se ni. te, hile waiting tho arrivi.l of the Preeidential par ty, aeeined to realice the lying down of the lion ::nd lamb togelber, or the mingling of oil apd water. Messrs. Ciiase, Wigfull, Crittendei), Wilson, and others were oppoeite, hobnobbing with tl'.o utirrost cordiality. Senator Breeki'oridge oonversed farntliarly with tho extremest men oi ihe repnblicani, whilo thüladies oi' all polilveal affinitieá. Mrs. llíüiilin among tiscm, looked suiilingly don on tho animuted scene be!ow. The attendanco of the Senators was unu-iia!y ful), tho only absences DÓticod bèl'ng'thöseóf Hon. Mr. Masón a'ud Kon. Mr. Munter oí Va. At thirteeti minutea to 1 o'clock the Judg'es of the Suprfenie Court of tlie United Sta es were annonneed by the Door-keeper of the Senate. Qri their entranee all on the tloor rose, and the venerable Jüdges, headed by Chief Jnstico Tanoy, moved slowly to the scats assigned thein, immediately to the right of the " Vico President, euoh exchaDging salutos with that officer in passing the chair. At ten minutes alter 1 o'cioók an nniisnal stir was occaiioned in the tb amber, and tho rumor spread like ; vwUUire that the Profiident elect was in ; he buil iing. At til' een minuius past 1 Miirshaliii-Chief, Major B. B. Freí cli entereti the c-han.bcr, ushering in the President and President eleet. They had entered. togetiier freim the streel through ü private covered way : on the north side of Uè Capitol poiiuu officers being in attendanoe to preVi ut nitsiders from crowding alter thein. ïhe line of prócêssioii was then formed ín the foilowiog order: Marshal of the . District of Culuaibi.., Judgea oi the Supreme Court, Arms of the Senate, committee of arrangements, I ['reHldeüt of iho United Staies and i Pretiident elect, Vice Pios.detit, Seoretary of the Senate, Senators, diplomulic corps, heads of doparimèots, Goveroors, aud othors in the chamber. Wlien the word given (or ttie membera of! he House to full into ïine of "tlie jVróueKslon a vioUnt ruoh was made for the door, acconipapie.'J by Ipud ontcries violent pushing, and great disturbuiice. After tho prpcessioo liad reached thu platform, Senator Baker, ol Oregop, introduced Mr. Lincoln to the assem bly I On Mr. LincoliiV advuncing to the siand he was cheered, bnt not loudly. UnfoldinK his manuscript, in a loud, clear voice he read his message as Í0II0W8 : The Inau2ui'al Address, Fellmo-Citizem of the United Statts: In coinpliance with a custom as old as the govenimcnt is itself, I appcar befure you to adJress you bncily. and to take in your prcsüiice the oath prescribcd by the constitution of the United States to be taken by the President beforo hu enters on tho execution of his office. I do not j consider it uecessary at present lor me to diseuss those niatters of administration about which therc is no special anxiety or excitemeiit. Apprehension scems to exist auiong the people of the southern States that, by the accession of a republican administiation, their property and their peaco and personal security are to bo endangerod. Thero has never been any rcasonable canso for such apprehensioii ludeed, the most ampie ovidence to the contrary has all the while existcd and been open to their inspoction It is j f'ouiid in nearly all the published speech es uf him who now addressea you. I do bat but quote from one of ihose speeches ' whe n I declare that L have no purpose, directly or indirectly, lo interfcre w.th tho institution of slavery in the Statea where it uow exists. I believe I have bo lawfal riybt to do so, and I have no ; mclination to do so. Those who nomina - tcd and clectcd me did so with the full knowlcdge that I had mado this and niaiiy similar declaratiooB and had never recall'ed them, and, more than this, thcy placed in the platform for my aeceptanoi', as a law to themselve and to mi?, the ] clcar and euiphatiu rcsolution which I now vead: ''lUsohcd, That the maintcnancc inviolate of the rights of the State?, and 1 pecially the right of each State to order ; and control its own domestie mstitútions: aecording to its own judgiueut exclusively, is csscntiíil to that balance of power on which tho perfoction and enduranceof j our political fubrio depend; and we 1 nomice the lawless invasión by an anned ! force of the soil of any State or Tartitory, no matter ander what pretext, as among the greatest of crimes." I now reitérate these sontiments, and in doing so, I only press upon the public atteutiou tho most conclusivo evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, pcace and security of no section are to bc in auy wise errdangered by the new incoming administration. 1 add, too, that all tliu protectiou which, consistent with the constitution and the laws, can be giveu will be cheerfully given to all tho Stattís when lawfully demiud'od, for wliatevcr cause - as chcerfuüy to one section as to anuther. There is much controversy about tho dclivering of fugitivos from service or labor. The clause I now reaJ is is plaiiily w ritten in the constitution as ánj other of itn provisions: "ÑÓ person held to service or labor iu ono State andor the luws thcreof, es caping into unother, shall, in consequene ; of any luw or rcgulation thcrein, bc dis charged from such ervice or labor, but chall be delivèred up on cÜaira of the t.y to who.n sueh service or labor may bc duo." it vas intc-.:ded by thoso who mado il tor the reelaimiug oí what wo cali fugi tivo sla ves, and tho intention of tlio lawgivor is tbé hi'.v. AH merabers of Cougress swear their support to tho wholo constitutie) - to this provisión as tnuch as to any other. To the propo ■ theu, that slavoi who.se oases come within the terms ot' this clauso shall bo delivored up, ttreiroatbs are wmnimous, .Vmv, if thcy would oiake tho effort in good temper, could thoy uot, with nearly equal unaiiiiiiii y, trame and pass a law by ineau8 ot' wliich to keep goud that unaniuious oathV Tbore is soma differenee of opinión whether this clnüse should be euforced by National or State authoriiy, but surely that differenee is uot a very material one. lt' the slave is to be surrendereJ, it can be of but little consequence to him or to others by which authority it is done; aud thould any one, in any case, be content that his oath shall be unkept o:i a mure unsubstantial coutröversy as to huw it shall bo kopt? - Again, in any law upon this subjec'f ought uot all t lic Bafeguards of libertj known in civilized a;id huinan jurispru. d:nce to be introduoed, so that a freoman raay not be in any caso surrendered as a slave.' and miglit it not be well, at the same time, to providc by law tor the enfórcöment ot' that clau.se in the constitution which guarantees that the citizcus of each .State shail be entitled to all the privileges and immuuities of citizens in the severa! tftates? I tako the official oatli to-day with no mental reservations, and with no parpóse to construti the constitution or laws by any hypcreritical rules; and, wliile I do uot cliüose 110 w to spëcify particular acta ofCongress ás proper to bo euforeed, I do suggest that it it will be ïnueli safer tbr us. both m official and private statious, to conform to and abide by all thosc act3 which staud uurjpealod, than to viólate any of them, trustmg to iind inipuiuty iu liaving them held to be uncoustituuoiial, It is soveuty-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our na-, lional constitution. During that period fifteen ditferent aud greatly distiuguished citizens huve in succession idmiuistercd the Exocutive hrauoli of tho governnient. They lwve conductcd it through many perils, aud generally with great suecess; yet, with all ihis scope for prejodeut, I BOT enter upon the samo task, for the coustitutioual term of four years, under great.aud peculiar diffiyiilties. Disruption of the Federal Union, heretol'oro only meuaced, is now formidably attempted. I liold that, in oontemplatiou of of universal law and of the coustitution, the Union of these States is pei'DOtual. - Perpetuity is mplied, if not expressed, in the fundunental law ot all national governments. It is safe to assert that a government proper iiüver !:ad a provisión in itsorgauic law for its own termination Continue to exceuto all the expresa provisions of our national constitution, and tin.' Union will enduro forever, it beÍUg impoásible to destroy it except by soiue ftotion not provMed for in the. instrument itsclf. Again, if the United States be not a govenmient. proper but au association of States in tho n:.ture oí a contract tfterely, can it. as a contract, be peacefully unniadc by less than uil the partjes who made it? One party to a contrae may viólate it - break it so to spi'ak; but d;es it uot require all to lawt'ully resciud it? Iksc'cnding from these general principies, we til lü. llie pi-iiposition that iu legal eouti.'inpVuion the U ilion is perpetual Bmfirmed bv tbe history of the Union iiself. The Union is mach oidor than the cor.stitutiou. lt was fornied, in fiiot, by the I articles of asáociutioD in 1771. It tras uiatured and continued by the Deelanition úi índependence iu 1776. It WHS further tnatured. and the faitli of all the i then thirteen Otates expressly pliglited i aúd engügsd that it should be perpetual, : by the anieles ofcoiifcdnration in 1773, and tiuiilly iu 1787 one of the deoUred objeets for ordaiuing ud estaMis'iing the coi s: it ut ion w:is to form a more perfect Union [If ithdrawal] by one or by a part only oí tho States be lawt'ully possiblo, the Union is less than befoxe, the oonstitutiou having lost tho vital olenient , of perpotuity. It follows from the.se views that no State, on its own mere mo tion, can lawt'ully got out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that. acts of violeta i within any States or Stato ágaiüst the autiiority of the United States are insurrectiouary or rovolutionary according to circumstances. I iherefore consider that, i in view of the constitution and laws, the Union is uubrokon, and to the extent of iny abiiity I shall tako care, as the constitution itself expressly enjoins on me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully exeeuted in all tbe States Doing this I deern to be only a simple duty on ïuy part, and I shall perforin it so far as practicable, unless my rfghtful masters, the American people, shall withhold the reijuisite moans, or, in BOtne authoritiitivc i manner, direct the qoutrary. I trust this i will not be regarded as a menaee, but ! only as a declared purpose of tlie Union thát it will constit itionally defend and! maintain itself. In doing thisthere need ; be no blondslied or violence, and there j shail be rioöe unless it be foreed upon tho national authoritjr, The power contided i to me will be used to hold, occupy, at.d j possess the proper ty and places belonging to the gOï'ornment; to eollect duties on iirjpörts; but, beyond what may be ; sary for these objects, there will bo no invasio'.i - no using of force against or aiuong people anywhore. Wnere Imsülity to tho United Stater, m any intorinr locality, shall be s trreat and so universal as to preven" ! competent resident citizens trom hold ing Federal offices, thero will bo no at , tonipt to (orco obno.viotis stratia;er" I ainong the people for that ohject While tho strict legal rtght may exisj in the governmont to ontoree thu exer. I cie o(' these olfiees, the altempt to do Í so would be so rrítatiirg', and so nearly impracticable withal, that I deeiti it i etter to lorogo íor a time the uses of. stich offices, Tlie mailt!, unloss ropclled, will tinne to be furnished in all parta ;f lbo Union. So far ns pospibíe the people everywhere sh:tll have thaL sensc! ó'l porfoat security which ib most favorable to ealin tbonghts and ruflect'ori-, The I colirio hereín indica tod ivíH be fóllowaá unless eurrent evonts ami szpofieiicé shiill show a modifientwn or change te hu proper, and, in ovcry caso and exig&ncy, my best dicfetiijb will be exercised acoirrdfiig to circutnstancea actually e.tisting, and víth a view and a hipe' of v be'ttëéfül solütibn of the nationol ■ trouble, and the restoriuion of frftteroa] Sympathy and nffèotion. That there are persons n one BOOtrön or ariother who Beek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretest to do it, 1 wil! ntjitbeï ntïirm ; nor deny ; but, if theiv be nicli, I '.intl bot address a word to them. To thope, however, who roally Ipvo tho Union, may I not sp,e,ak ? lieloro entering upon so gravo 9 matter ;us the deBtruction of our national i'abric, with all ite bencfits, itf? rnernorioa nnd hope?, would t not bo w!c to ascprtain previi ':-!v why We do t? Will you hazard j so desperate H step while there is uny liüty thal ;iny portion of the lis yon ilv li'nin h;ivc no existence ? Will yoü, whilo thüci"t;ii illsyou liy toaiei grealer than a!l the reul ones you fly irom- will vul risk the commission of so reurful arhislake ? All profesa to : by cootented in the ünion if all coosti ■ tutional rights can be maintained. Is it true, then, that aby right pkmïy written i the constituiion has been de. 1 t!:ii)k hot Happfly, ihe human ini'id ia so euQstituted that t.o party can reacb lo the audacity of doiog i this. Thii.k, il vou ean, pj' n singlo inetanc'e n vvbieh n plaiuiy w ritten .provisión ol the constittuion lias er boon denied It, by tbe mere foroti of niimbers, raájority shull deprive a ninoii tv of any cïèarly-wrilten epnstitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, jnstify rovo! ut ion; it certainly would if suoh was a vital one ; hut such is not our case. Tho vital right of mlnorities and of individual aro so phinly assurod to thetn by affirmations, allegations. guaranteea and prohibitions iri the constitución, that controversies never ariso oonueruing ihett). But no organïo law can bo frained witb a pr vision spocially applioable to every question whioh may oceur in practical administraron. No lorcsiylit can an; licipate, nor any document of roasona j ble lengtb uo aluin, expresa proviaions 1 for all possiblo tjueatiuns. Èball fugitivas from labor bu snrrenderod by Natioiuil or Stato aütboritiea ? Tho constitution does not oxpressly say. Must Oongruqa protHCt s avery in the Territorios ? Tne constitution does not expresüly say. From qaestions of this olas spring all our constitutional cantroversies, and wc divide iipon them into major ties and minaritiesj. If thu rninority will nol accjuiüsco the majority must or tho govornruent must cease. There is no aReroative lor continüing tho govornment but acquicscotico on the om' side or the othor. Il' a uiinority, in such a case, will secede rather than acquipsoe, tliey raake a precedent which will in turn vuin and divido .hem, for a miiiority of their oim will seoedu trom them wbenever a mujority refuse to bo eootrolted by such a minority. Fur instaiu-e, why may nol any portion oí' a iil'w coofederaoy, a year or two honce, arbitrarily secedo again, piv.cisuly as portions ót'thts present Union now claim to secüdtj from it ? All wiio cherish (iisunion sentimunts aro now baing educated to the exact temper of doiog tuis. There is not such perfect iduiltit.y of interest among tho States to com[)oso a nuw Union as Co produce hannony only aud to prevent a new ecession. ' Plaiuly tho central dea of secession is tbe uHsenco ol anarchy. A majorily liuld in reatraint by constitntioual checks and UiüitaUpna, aüd al.vays changing easily witb delibérale chauges of popular upinion wd suntiments, is the only trui: savereign of a Iree people. Whoeer rojects it doe.- of a necesaily fly to anurtihy or despotism. Udanimily is ímposdible. i'lid rulo of' he miiioncv, as a permanent argument, is vvholly iiiadmisslblo so that lejecting llio majority princip!e; anarchy or despotism in so.ne furril is all tiiat is luit. I do not f rgöt tbe position assumed by some, ttiat BoQëtitutigual q lostions are to bo decide-j by tüe Supreme Court, nor do 1 depy thai such decisión nutst be binding iu any cae to the parties to a suit :.s lo die object ot that Miit, wtiilö ihey are also enliiled to a very high respect and considoraiiou in il parallel cases by all ottier departmöuts of th; goveniiuent ; and, while it is plrviously po.-siiiie that sucti decisión may be errone nis iu any giveuease, ölill, the evüs followiug it, benig limiied to that particular caso, witb llie chances that it uiay be overruled and nover becoino a preoödeot for other cases, can better be borne than could the ! evils of a difk-rent practico. At the ' sauiu liiüe tlio caiidid ciiizeo must confesa that, if tho policy of the goveru OieQt Lpon tho vital quüsiions ati'.cliug the whole people is Ui be irrevocab y Üxed by the decisiou of tho Supreme U-urt tho instaui ttioy are ihude, as in oiuii.ary liligilion betweea panies in personal aciions, the people wi 1 havo ceasod to bo their owu rulers lo that exleutjimd have pi'ac tically resigi.ed the gcivorniiiont into the hauas of that eminent tiibunal, Nor is there, iu this viovv, any assault upon the Court or ihe Judges. Il is a duiy from which ttiey may not shriuk to decide cases pi'operiy t i'onght bèfot'e thom. li, is uo lault of tlieirs it others seek to turn their decioions to polilical purposes. O:io seption of our country beüoves slavciy is right and ought to be extend ed wiiilo tho Other believes it is wrong and ought not to bo extended. This is the otilv substantial dispute. Tho lugilive slave clause in the constitlltiou and the lawí for tho supprossion of the foreign slavo trado are as well enforced,. perhaps, as any law eau ever bo in a cu'umuniiy while tho moral seuse of tho people but imporfectly supports tho law itself. Tho great body of the people abide by the dry legal alK'gatiou in boih case, and a few breuk over in each. This, I think, can uot be perlectly cured, and it would be worst', iu both cases, aiter the separar lion of the sections than beloro. The foreign slave trade now hnperfoctjy supproásed, wouid bji.npjifoci.ly rovived, without restriction, in one section ; while fugitivo slaves, now only partially surrondered, [would uot be surrenderedj at all. l'tiysically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot roiiiovo our respoclive secüons lrom each other, nor build BH impiissable wall between li.ein. Al husbauil and wi(o may be divorced and go out ol ihe presuice and bevond the reach of each other; but the different paris of our country cannot do this. Tlioy cannot but remain faco to faoo, I atid intercourso, either amicablo or hos-; tile, must continue betweeu them. Is it 'possible, then, to mike that inter course more advantageous or more satisfactory after the separation than belora ! Gao aliena inako treaties botter I tr.an fnenda can make lawsf Can treaties be moro failbfully enforcod betweep aliena than hiws can among fr.ends ? Suppose you go to war you cannot fight alwas, and when, aftor mach loss on both sidos and no gaiu on eitln-r, you oease fighting, the idéntica! questions as to tenns of intercourse are still upon you. ïhis counlry, with its inslitntions, belong to tho people who iuhabit it. Wheiiüver they shall grow wcary of the éswting government, they can , ercisu their constitutional rght to amend it, or their revolulionary right to disuifinber and overth'rów it. I cunuot be Sgnurunt f the (act that raauy worthy ana -putriotie citi.ers are j ,■!. ;;uiis of having tbe ftatïónftl constitution oipendéd. Whilo I rftnko no recMimnendatioñ of amendtnènt, I fully recognizo the full Büthrity óf the people over the whole subject, to bb [ ercisod in either of ihe modes precnbed in th instrument ïtseli, nnd 1 shoulrl, under existng pireuïnstanoes, laVor rather tban cpp"ee a fafr ' tunity being affbrded to act upon it. I wili venturo to ad.l that t mo tho oonvafltion modo ssoins prelerable, iu tiirtt it deems anrodmente to origínate with tho peoplo themselves, astead of ' cnly permittnig tliern to lake or riíject propositions originated by othera not rsji'ci;i!ly chosen f'nr the purpose, and whtoh might not precisely suit, as they would wfflh othera to accept or refuse. I uudersland ;i proposed amendment to tho constitución - which amendment, however, I have not seén - has pausad Congress, to tl. e eiïect that ihe Federal go ver n ment shall bever interfere with the domestic nsiüitiob8 of States, inciuding that of persona held to service. To avuid miseonsiruction oí what I havo said, I dspart froui my purpose not to speak of particular amendments, so far as to say that, holding sueh a provisión to now be implied in the coustitntional law, I have no objection to its being raade expres? and irrevocable The Chiol Magistrate derives all his authority from the peoplo, and they havo cDiiierrod nono upon him to fix tho tenns lor tho separation ot the Slrtte.s. The peoplo themselves alono can do this, if tney choose; but the Exücutive, as sucb, has nothing todo with t. Ilia duty is to administer the present governjneat as it carne to his hands, and to transinit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor. Why should thfire not be a politioal confidence in tho ultímate justice of the people? la there any better or equal hopo in the worWf In our present difforences, ia uithor party wittjout faith of being ia theright? If the Almighty Ruler of nations, wi h eterna] truth and juhtiee, be oq your side of the North or on yours of the South, that truth and juatioe will suroly provail by the judginunt of this great tribunal, tho great American people. By the frame of tho govern:nent under which we live this amo peoplo havo wisoly given their public Kervants but littlo power for misohief, and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to thoir hands at very short intervals. - While the people retain their virtue and vigitánce no ádminmtration, by any extreme wickednoss or folly, can very seriously injure the governtnent in the short space ot four years. My country meo one and all, thing calmly and we!l upon this whole ubjoct. Nothing valuable can be lost hy taking lime. Ií thero be an object to Imrry any oí yon in hot hasíe to a step which yon would never take deliborately, that ohject will be fruatrated by taking ti:iij; but no göo'd object can be frusn trated hy it. Such of you as aro now lüssatisliiíd stij] have the oíd constitu! tion, unimpaired on the sensitiva pointt and the luwe of your own under it.- The tie'.v adrnini.stratiop will have no power, f t would, to chango either. ff it weiv adrnitteil t at you who uro dlssatisfind liold fne right ido oí the dispute, there still is no roasoa fot precipitate action. Intejligeoce, patriotism, Chnstianity, and i tinii reliaooe n Hun wno bas never forxaken this favorèd huid are still coinpiáteiit tu fidjust in the best way all our present ditfi -ulties. Ii: }-our hands, my dissatinfied (ellow i'.ount-rymen, and not i;i mine, is the mofBéntouq isise. of tivil war. The iovernment will not assail you. You can hve no. conflict without being yourselves tha aggraxoopa, You havo no oath registered i;i lieuven t deStroy the govern-. meir, uhilo I aball have the most Holemn duty to preserve, protect and delend it. I am lnth to close. We aro aofc enemies, hut Criendel. We must not ba enemies. Tbough passion may havo strained, it must not breuk, our bonds of Union. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlu-field and patriot's gravo to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, willyot swell the chorus of tho Union when again touchod, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. During tho delivery of the inaugural, which commenced at half-pust 1 o'clock, he wíis much cheered, espeoeally at any allusnn to tho Union. President Buchanan and Chief Justice Taney listencd with the utmost attention to every word ol the address, and at its conclusión the la!ter administered tho usual oaih, in makingr which Mr. Lincoln was vociterously heered. The Cliief Juaneo soemed very much agitated, and his hands shook very perceptibly with emotion. Tho inauguration of to day rnakes the eighth ccremony of the kind at which Chief Justice Taney has ofticiated, he having adminia'.ered the oath of office successi vely to President Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore. Pierce, Buchanan, and Lincoln. Tho ceremony wás exceedingly mpressive. At the conclusión ol the inauguration ceremonios the President was escorted to the Senate chamber, thence to his carriage, and the military, forming as in. the procession oí the morning, accompinied him to the White House, wiih Mr. Buchanan and tbo committee of arrsngeroents. On reaching the Executivo mansión the troops iormed in doublé line on the maia avenue, and thebarouchec)iitaiuii?gthe Presidential party passed through to the mansión'. Mr. Buchanan accompanied Mr. Lincoln to the raain hall, and there took his farewell leave of him, expressing tho hope in cordial terins that his administratio.i might provo a happy and prosperous one. The ex President then retired to the resiclencc of District A'torney Ould, vvhere he will temporarily sojourn till his dftparture freía the city to rnorrow evening. On the arrivaj of the procession at the White H.iuse Ihe Jtarshals ol the day wvre successivuly introduced. - Then, the line being formed, the peoplo rubhed in to congratúlate the new President The rush was oxceedingly great. Thus ended for the dayiime the inauguration ceremonies Though, the omhusiasm not by an,y meáns equal to that manifested n former similiar oucusionri, everyüiing p .sscd. off quietly. The innplest civil and; military prepaiMlions wcre madü by the rpunioipul au noritie and (Jon. ricott to prnvidd for atiy emergency that miglit arise. The various bodies of U. S tii)ips now here wore stationed iü diiTerent part Ol the city, the sappen and minurs. alone beiny in the processian. Lieut. Gen. Öcott, it is sard, was near theQapitol, with Oaptaiu Barry's companv ol light aitillery and vaj. Haskins" cóirtraand uctnig ns infantry. The oüicors, it is reportad, were codtiriualljr 'pjjssing to and fro, and it ia saicl tho General was hcard to exclaira, "Évarything Isgoingon peaceably. - Thank God Almighty for it!'' During tho day the military pairols ou duty all over the city, and. tho greatest vigilance was enjoined upon and observed by the regulara. "Tho display ot solditjvy in the procèssion was very fine, but not equal to that of the 22d of February. The cumpanies were quite Dumerous, but of email tsiz as a rule.