The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

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.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

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