and honor. This is in entire accord with the genius of our
institutions, and but emphasizes the advantages of inculcating even a
greater love for law and order in the future. Immunity should be
granted to none who violate the laws, whether individuals,
corporations, or communities; and as the Constitution imposes upon the
President the duty of both its own execution, and of the statutes
enacted in pursuance of its provisions, I shall endeavor carefully to
carry them into effect. The declaration of the party now restored to
power has been in the past that of "opposition to all combinations of
capital organized in trusts, or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the
condition of trade among our citizens," and it has supported "such
legislation as will prevent the execution of all schemes to oppress the
people by undue charges on their supplies, or by unjust rates for the
transportation of their products to the market." This purpose will be
steadily pursued, both by the enforcement of the laws now in existence
and the recommendation and support of such new statutes as may be
necessary to carry it into effect.

Our naturalization and immigration laws should be further improved to
the constant promotion of a safer, a better, and a higher citizenship.
A grave peril to the Republic would be a citizenship too ignorant to
understand or too vicious to appreciate the great value and beneficence
of our institutions and laws, and against all who come here to make war
upon them our gates must be promptly and tightly closed. Nor must we be
unmindful of the need of improvement among our own citizens, but with
the zeal of our forefathers encourage the spread of knowledge and free
education. Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain
that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the
world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.