Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Inaugural Address of William Cannon: Delivered at Dover, Upon Taking the Oath of Office as Governor of the State of Delaware, January 20, 1863
But it is manifest that the obligation to support the Constitution of the United States, creates other responsibilities and may impose on me the perform ance of other duties, than such as are ordinarily incident to the relation which I am about to assume.
In this crisis, it behooves every. Private citizen, much more every public functionary, to maintain an undeviating loyalty to the National Government, and I am unwilling to permit this first occasion to pass, without declaring my determination, to the extent of the powers with which I am invested, to support the Government of the United States.
The events of the past two years are unnecessary to be specially recounted. A gigantic rebellion threatens to destroy the nation. Incepted by fraud and consummated by oppression, it stands unparallel ed m wickedness.
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