By The Last Returns To The Department

Our Relations With The Other Powers Of Europe Have Experienced No Essential Change Since The Last Session.

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.

If We Look To The History Of Other Nations, Ancient Or Modern, We Find No Example Of A Growth So Rapid, So Gigantic, Of A People So Prosperous And Happy.

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.