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

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

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

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.

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

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.