Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.