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All The Public Business In Congress Now Connects Itself With Intrigues, And There Is Great Danger That The Whole Government Will Degenerate Into A Struggle Of Cabals.

To Preserve, To Improve, And To Perpetuate The Sources And To Direct In Their Most Effective Channels The Streams Which Contribute To The Public Weal Is The Purpose For Which Government Was Instituted.

The Great Interests Of An Agricultural, Commercial, And Manufacturing Nation Are So Linked In Union Together That No Permanent Cause Of Prosperity To One Of Them Can Operate Without Extending Its Influence To The Others. All These Interests Are Alike Under The Protecting Power Of The Legislative Authority, And The Duties Of The Representative Bodies Are To Conciliate Them In Harmony Together.

In The American Hemisphere The Cause Of Freedom And Independence Has Continued To Prevail, And If Signalized By None Of Those Splendid Triumphs Which Had Crowned With Glory Some Of The Preceding Years It Has Only Been From The Banishment Of All External Force Against Which The Struggle Had Been Maintained. The Shout Of Victory Has Been Superseded By The Expulsion Of The Enemy Over Whom It Could Have Been Achieved.

Religious Discord Has Lost Her Sting; The Cumbrous Weapons Of Theological Warfare Are Antiquated: The Field Of Politics Supplies The Alchymists Of Our Times With Materials Of More Fatal Explosion, And The Butchers Of Mankind No Longer Travel To Another World For Instruments Of Cruelty And Destruction.