Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York

'Tis social converse, animates the soul.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.