By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

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.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

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.

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

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

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