During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection.

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

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

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

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.

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