 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1855 - 532 pages
...present form of government commenced ; and 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 Ruler and Arbiter of nations, that his care may still be extended to the United States; that the virtue and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1856 - 466 pages
...present form of government commenced ; and 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 Ruler and Arbiter of nations, that his care may still be extended to the United States; that the virtue and... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...present form of government commenced ; and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate yon and my country on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my...the Government which they have instituted for the protection of their liberties may be perpetual. G. WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, December 7, 1796. When... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1860 - 648 pages
...present form of government commenced ; and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country, on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my...the Government which they have instituted for the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." The address of the Senate paid a just and warm tribute... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...present form of government commenced ; and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my...the Universe and Sovereign Arbiter of Nations, that Hie providential care may still be extended to the United States ; that the virtue and happiness of... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - 472 pages
...present form of Government commenced ; and 1 cannot omit this occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my...of the Universe, and Sovereign Arbiter of Nations, thit his providential care may still bo extended to the United States ; that the virtue and happiness... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...present form of government commenced, and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success .of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to (he Supreme Ruler of the universe and Sovereign Arbiter of nations, that his providential care may... | |
 | James Parton - Presidents - 1860 - 810 pages
...present form of government commenced ; and I can not omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment ; nor to repeat my...the government which they have instituted for the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." When, amidst the profoundest silence, the President... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 802 pages
...congratulate you, and my country, on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplication to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and Sovereign...the government which they have instituted for the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." The answer of the senate to this speech embraced all... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 464 pages
...present form of government commenced, and 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 Euler of the universe and Sovereign Arbiter of nations, that his providential care may be still extended... | |
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The situation in which I now stand, 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... 
