The inauguration.
To-day will witness the inauguration of the first
President under the permanent Government of our new-born, but vigorous and chivalrous Confederacy.
An active Government, springing into existence in the midst of a most terrible and bloody revolution, it will soon attract the attention and enlist the sympathies of the old and established Governments of the world by the wisdom of its policy and the valor of its people.
To-day starts in its career a Republic destined to rival the most prosperous of modern times, and, which will, through the spirit and devotion of its people, and the genius of its institutions, in a comparatively brief period, reach the same of national greatness and glory.
Born in the midst of strife and contention, cradled in the hour of apparent disaster, it will, put forth the energies required by the seeming
Perlis which surround it, and burst the shackles which seek to fetter its liberty and independence.
From this day henceforward we predict a new era will open up and develop in the affairs of our infant Confederacy, which will lead her step by step, with firm and steady, but quick and active tread, to the position of grandeur among the powers of the earth only attainable by a people who know how to appreciate the genius of a free Government and the spirit and scope of constitutional liberty.
Proper arrangements have been made for the Inaugural ceremonies to-day, and the programme of the committee will be found in another column.
In addition to that programme, the
Chief Marshal has requested us to state, that the galleries of the House of Delegates will be occupied solely by ladies during the preliminaries to the moving of the Inaugural procession.
