The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.