I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protection which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.