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I Enter On The Trust To Which I Have Been Called By The Suffrages Of My Fellow-citizens With My Fervent Prayers To The Almighty That He Will Be Graciously Pleased To Continue To Us That Protection Which He Has Already So Conspicuously Displayed In Our Favor.

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.

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

The Emigrants Although Of Different Parties And Different Religious Sects All Flew From Persecution In Pursuit Of Liberty.

In Wars Of The European Powers In Matters Relating To Themselves We Have Never Taken Any Part, Nor Does It Comport With Our Policy So To Do