It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.