The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

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

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

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

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

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.