National Honor Is National Property Of The

We Must Support Our Rights Or Lose Our Character, And With It, Perhaps, Our Liberties.

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

If It Was Wise, Manly, And Patriotic For Us To Establish A Free Government, It Is Equally Wise To Attend To The Necessary Means Of Its Preservation.

The Citizens Of The United States Cherish Sentiments The Most Friendly In Favor Of Liberty And Happiness...beyond The Atlantic. In The Wars Of The European Powers In Matters Relating To Themselves We Have Never Taken Any Part, Nor Does It Comport With Our Policy To Do So. It Is Only When Our Rights Are Invaded Or Seriously Menaced That We Resent Injuries.

Republics Demanded Virtue. Monarchies Could Rely On Coercion And "dazzling Splendor" To Suppress Self-interest Or Factions; Republics Relied On The Goodness Of The People To Put Aside Private Interest For Public Good. The Imperatives Of Virtue Attached All Sorts Of Desiderata To The Republican Citizen: Simplicity, Frugality, Sobriety, Simple Manners, Christian Benevolence, Duty To The Polity. Republics Called On Other Virtues--spiritedness, Courage--to Protect The Polity From External Threats. Tyrants Kept Standing Armies; Republics Relied On Free Yeomen, Defending Their Own Land.