第一次国情咨文演讲

美国第一次国情咨文演讲

由乔治华盛顿

1790年1月8日星期五

阅读以下摘要:第一次国情咨文演讲温库普先生今天来了，坐了下来。众议院正在召集，休会至参议院会议厅。11点，总统在他的助手和部长的陪同下，在参议院会议厅受到了国会两院的欢迎，他高兴地发表了下面的演讲:

点击1790年1月21日星期四《马萨诸塞间谍报》上的原文。

我满意地拥抱了现在呈现自己的机会，祝贺你对我们公共事务的有利前景。最近加入了北方北罗琳娜的重要州，向美国宪法（其中收到的官方资料）和我们国家的执政信贷和尊重，并将对联盟政府的兴趣增加，以及我们幸福的康科德，和平与大量，在吉祥的情况下，在卓越的学位上，以我们的国家繁荣。在改革您的一般良好磋商时，您不能源自思考，最后一届会议的措施对您的成员令人满意，因为工作的新颖性和难度使您能够希望.--进一步实现他们的期望，并确保慷慨地普罗维登斯在我们的范围内纳入祝福的祝福，将在目前的重要会议上呼吁酷酷，故意努力的爱国主义，坚定和智慧。在将引起您注意的许多有趣的物体中，为常见防御提供了普遍的态度。为战争做好准备是保存和平的最有效手段之一。一个自由的人不仅应该被武装而纪律;最后一个结束了一个统一和良好的消化计划是必要的：他们的安全和利益要求他们应该促进这种制造业，因为倾向于使他们独立于其他制造业，特别是对于军事用品而言。适当建立可能被视为不可或缺的部队，将有权获得成熟的考虑因素。 In the arrangement which will be made respecting it, it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers with a due regard to economy. There was reason to hope, the pacifick measures adopted with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians, would have relieved the inhabitants of our southern and western frontiers from their depredations. But you will perceive, from the information contained in the papers, which I shall direct to be laid before you, (comprehending a communication from the Commonwealth of Virginia) that we ought to be prepared to afford protection to those parts of the Union; and, if necessary, to punish aggressors. The interests of the United States require, that our intercourse with other nations should be facilitated by such provisions as will enable me to fulfill my duty, in that respect, in the manner which circumstances may render most conducive to the publick good: And to this end, that the compensations to be made to the persons who may be employed, should, according to the nature of their appointments, be defined by law; and a competent fund designated for defraying the expenses incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs. Various considerations also render it expedient, that the terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of Citizens, should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization. Uniformity in the currency, weights and measures of the United States, is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to. The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home; and of facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the Post Office and Post Roads. Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of Science and Literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of publick happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community, as in our's, it is proportionately essential. To the security of a free Constitution it contributes in various ways: By convincing those who are entrusted with the publick administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people: And by teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority; between burthens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience, and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society; to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy, but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws. Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the Legislature. Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, I SAW with peculiar pleasure, at the close of the last session, the resolution entered into by you, expressive of your opinion, that an adequate provision for the support of the publick credit, is a matter of high importance to the national honour and prosperity.-- In this sentiment, I entirely concur.-- And to a perfect confidence in your best endeavors to devise such a provision as will be truly consistent with the end, I add an equal reliance on the cheerful cooperation of the other branch of the Legislature.-- It would be superfluous to specify inducements to a measure in which the character and permanent interests of the United States so obviously and so deeply concerned; and which has received so explicit a sanction from your declaration. Gentlemen of the Senate, and House of Representatives, I HAVE directed the proper officers to lay before you respectively such papers and estimates as regards the affairs particularly recommended to your consideration, and necessary to convey to you that information of the state of the union, which it is my duty to afford. The welfare of our country is the great object to which our cares and efforts ought to be directed.-- And I shall derive great satisfaction from a cooperation with you, in the pleasing though arduous task of ensuring to our fellow citizens the blessings which they have a right to expect, from a free and equal government. G. WASHINGTON United States, January 8, 1790 The president then retired & and the House returned to their own room: When the President's Speech being read by the Clerk, it was voted that the House would tomorrow take the same into consideration in a Committee of the whole on the state of the Union. & On motion, it was voted to proceed to ballot for a Chaplain, when the votes being collected, it appeared, that the Rev. Dr. Lynn was reelected. Adjourned until tomorrow, 11 o'clock.来源:马萨诸塞间谍号(1790年6月21日星期四)