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

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.

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.

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

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

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