 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." On the day preceding the termination of his office, in a letter to Genera] Knox, he compared himself... | |
 | George Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott - History - 1846 - 606 pages
...I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." Solemn indeed was the scene as the warrior, the patriot, the statesman, venerable alike from his age... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...can not omit the occasion to congratulate you and mv country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual. FAREWELL ADDRESS. SEPTEMBER 17, 1796. Friends and FelUne-Citizens : — THE period for a new election... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." The pleasing emotions which are excited in ordinary men on their acquisition of power, were inferior... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 pages
...cannot omit this occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...Arbiter of Nations, that his providential care may stiH bo extended to the United States ; that the virtue and happiness of the people may be preserved,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1849 - 764 pages
...cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual. G. WASHINGTON. UIUTID STATZS, December 7, 1796. When the PRESIDENT had concluded his Address, he presented... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1849 - 760 pages
...cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...instituted for the protection of their liberties may he perpetual. G. WASHINGTON. UKITED STATIS, December 7, 1796. When the PRESIDENT had concluded his... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 744 pages
...extended to the United States, that the virtue and happiness of the people may be pro- 1796. served, and that the government which they have instituted...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual" The answer, on the part of the House, was not agreed to without a good deal of debate, in which considerable... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you, and my country, on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." In a special message to Congress, Washington explained, at length, the relations existing between the... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 716 pages
...can not omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...universe and Sovereign Arbiter of nations that his provi- CHAPTER dential care may still be extended to the United States, 1_ that the virtue and happiness... | |
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... for the last time, in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States, naturally recalls the period when the administration of the present form of government commenced ; and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my... 
