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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 913
[1838 Nov. 10?], M. B. LAl\'IAR. INAUGURAL ADDRESS 16
THE
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
of
MIRABEAU B ..
LAMAR,
PRESIDENT OF THE
REPUBLIC OF TEXAS,
TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS.
BY ORDER OF CONGRESS.
HOUSTON
Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives, and, Friends and Fellow Citizens: ' Invited by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens to the Chief Magis- tracy of the Republic, I embrace the opportunity which this solemn occasion presents of tendering my deep and enduring .gratitude for their distinguished favor. When I reflect upon the g [re] at unani- mity of the popular voice by which I am called t [o thi] s station, I cannot repress the painful apprehension that I [may] not be able to fulfill the high expectations which such gen [erous] confidence implies; and if I did not feel assured that the [coor] dinate branches of government, as well as the better judg[ment] of those whom I may be able to call into my councils, wou [l] d abundantly supply my deficiencies, I should be constrain [ed to] avoid a situation into which I bring abilities so inadequate [to th] e dis:charge of its high and important duties.---- -But indulg[ing t] he pleasing hope that a warm hearted and liberal people [will] continue to judge of my motives and my actions with the [same] generous indulgence heretofore extended to me as their [publ] ic servant-forgiving what is wrong and sustaining what is [rig] ht-I assume the duties of the executive with the solemn as [sur] ance to this august assembly, that every effort in my power 10 Pamphlet. A copy in Lamar's hand is in no. 361. This copy is noted by Lamar as "Delivered 10th. November, 1838"; evidently an error, as the Journals of both the House and Senate of the third Congress give the date as December 10.
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