Will such an article be proper?

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

The ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was received by me last night.

I therefore nominate M, de Poiery to be a captain by brevet.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of Government are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the purest source and original fountain of all power.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government * * * whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.