1818, the President commenced his Second Tour, which was rendered very limited by the pressing necessity of his presence at the seat of government.

The appalling horrours of Indian warfare, were exhibiting its tragical scenes upon the borders of the states and territories bounding upon Florida. Aided and abetted by foreign emissaries, more destitute of mercy and principle, if possible, than the Siminoles themselves, these wretched and barbarous outcasts, even from savage society, were spreading consternation, ha- < voc, torture and death, amongst the defenceless, and then undefended citizens upon the frontiers.

The President, assisted by the councils of a Cabinet of profound and patriotic statesmen, resorted to measures calculated to meet the emergency.

In ANDREW JACKSON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF THE SOUTH, the President found a man fit for any emergency,-a Statesman, cool and dispassionate a Soldier, terrible in battle and mild in victory-a Patriot, whose bosom swelled with love of country-in fine a man, "whose like we scarce shall look upon again."

The war with the Siminoles and their diabolical instigators ended in the complete discomfiture of both; and the measures of JAMES MONROE in the Cabinet, and of ANDREW JACKSON in the Field, have met with the approbation of an immense majority of the American people.

Mr. Monroe, ever keeping in view the rights and the interests of the Republic, and fully determined that neither should be wantonly invaded, was determined that the controversy, so long pending between the go

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vernment over which he now so happily presides, and that of Spain, over which the imbecile and tyrannical Ferdinand VII. wields the sceptre of despotic power, should be adjusted, caused a negociation to be entered into, which has terminated in the cession of the Floridas to the American government.

The advantages of this cession can scarcely now be duly appreciated. It relieves an extensive frontier from a civilized and barbarous foe-it gives to us almost the complete command of the Gulf of Mexicoit increases our national resources-it invites the never ending enterprise of our citizens to extend the settlement of our immense Republic-and in short, it is an acquisition, second only to that of Louisiana, for which the nation is indebted to JAMES MONroe.

The President is now, (July 1819) upon his Third Tour through the Southern and Western States.

THE

ELECTION, INAUGURATION, AND

INAUGURAL SPEECH,

OF

JAMES MONROE,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

In an hereditary government, the standing axiom is the king never dies-and when the prince who wears the diadem, pays the great debt of nature, it is called the demise of the crown. It passes from the head of the deceased monarch to that of the heir apparent; and the operation of the royal prerogative is never suspended. It has, indeed, often occurred, that crowns have been wrested from the heads of legitimate monarchs, placed upon the brows of an usurper, and the line of royal succession broken. The violent death of princes in despotic governments is often a part of their blood-stained histories. From the perilous elevation upon which they which they are placed, to the gulf of destruction yawning beneath them, there is often but one step, and that is-assassination. The throne of a strangled Paul, is now occupied by Alexander, his imperious son. Sometimes thrones have been voluntarily or coercively abdicated by one line of princes, and assumed by another. The house of Stuart, of England, in this

way was compelled to yield to that of Brunswick. The Bourbons, for the last quarter of a century, were exiles; but that league, called the "Allied Sovereigns," that tremendous association of earthly potentates,' which seems to threaten the annihilation of the rights of man, has placed Louis XVIII. upon the throne of France, and Ferdinand VII. upon that of Spain. This union of Legitimate Sovereigns,' must, at present, blast the hopes of heaven-born and patriotic geniuses, like TELL, WALLACE, and WASHINGTON. Humbled and degraded man seems to be doomed, in the Eastern world, to submit to a power which never emanated from them, and which is exercised more for the purposes of giving splendour to princes, than happiness to subjects.

But in the Western hemisphere, the luminary of the universe sheds its rays upon a people born free, and enjoying freedom. In the spiritual world, the STAR IN THE EAST arose, and still sheds its beams upon a redeemed world. In the political world the sun of freedom arose in the WEST. What American bosom is there but must swell with undissembled gratitude to that ALMIGHTY BEING who holds the destiny of man at his disposal. The history of the last half century is the record of their glory, and each revolving year has added one to the calendar of their temporal felicity. They have seen a revolution gloriously terminated— a constitution immoveably established. They have enjoyed the splendid and happy administrations of WASHINGTON, ADAMS, JEFFERSON, and MADISON. They have seen them placed in the chair of state by the free suffrages of their countrymen, and pursuing the best in

terest of the people in every measure of their government. They have mourned, in the deepest shades of sorrow, at the departure of the first from the world, and now rejoice in seeing the others enjoying, in the bosom of their grateful countrymen, all the blessings of philosophic retirement. They now witness the commencement of a new administration under JAMES MONROE. In him they recognize the scientific scholar, the patriotic soldier, and the experienced statesman. To him they look with a confidence that will not be deceived, and with hopes that will be realized, as to a political father.

The following interesting account of the Inauguration, and the President's Inaugural Speech, is extracted from a Washington Gazette.

WASHINGTON, March 5th, 1817.

THE INAUGURATION.

Under the auspices of a delightful day, yesterday took place the interesting ceremony attendant on the entrance of the President elect of the United States, on the duties of his arduous station. The ceremony and the spectacle was simple, but grand, animating, and impressive.

At half after 11 o'clock, the President, with him the Vice President elect, left his private residence, attended by a large cavalcade of citizens on horseback, marshalled by the gentlemen appointed to that duty.

The President reached the Congress Hall a little before 12; at the same time the Ex-President arrived, and the Judges of the Supreme Court. All having entered the Chamber of the Senate, then in session, the