While We Assert For Ourselves A Freedom

At No Period Of Our Political Existence Had We So Much Cause To Felicitate Ourselves At The Prosperous And Happy Condition Of Our Country.

From Several Of The Indian Tribes Inhabiting The Country Bordering On Lake Erie Purchases Have Been Made Of Lands On Conditions Very Favorable To The United States, And, As It Is Presumed, Not Less So To The Tribes Themselves.

How Prone All Human Institutions Have Been To Decay; How Subject The Best-formed And Most Wisely Organized Governments Have Been To Lose Their Check And Totally Dissolve; How Difficult It Has Been For Mankind, In All Ages And Countries, To Preserve Their Dearest Rights And Best Privileges, Impelled As It Were By An Irresistible Fate Of Despotism.

The Movements Of A Great Nation Are Connected In All Their Parts. If Errors Have Been Committed They Ought To Be Corrected; If The Policy Is Sound It Ought To Be Supported.

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.