 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 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." An appeal to the God of the Bible and of providence,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 646 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 RULEK of the UNIVERSE and SOVEREIGN ARBITER of NATIONS, that his providential care may still be extended... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 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...Arbiter of nations, that his providential care may be still extended to the United States ; that the virtue and happiness of the people may be preserved,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1867 - 604 pages
...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 ;...the government which they have instituted for the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." II. THE sixty-fifth anniversary of the birth-day of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1867 - 616 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... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1868 - 678 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 speech was referred, as usual, to a committee... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1868 - 852 pages
...experiment; nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the SUPREME RULKR of the UNIVEKSK and SOVEREIGN ARRITER of NATIONS, that his providential care may still be...States ; that the virtue and happiness of the people n.ay be preserved; and that the Government which they have instituted for the protection of their liberties... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 566 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...Arbiter of nations, that his providential care may be still extended to tlie United States ; that the virtue and happiness of the people may be preserved,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1871 - 760 pages
...the Supreme Ruler of the universe and Sovereign Arbiter of nations that his provi- CHAPTER dential care may still be extended to the United States, that the virtue and happiness of the people may bo pre- 1796. served, and that the government which they have instituted for the protection of their... | |
 | Edward Griffin Tileston - United States - 1871 - 240 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 still be 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... 
