Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.

You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.