This result affords conclusive evidence of the great resources of this country and of the wisdom and efficiency of the measures which have been adopted by Congress for the protection of commerce and preservation of public credit.
Adams interprets the increased revenue as evidence of the country's resources and effective congressional measures.
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In short, commerce has made this country what it is, and it can not be destroyed or neglected without involving the people in poverty and distress.
In this city may that piety and virtue, that wisdom and magnanimity, that constancy and self-government, which adorned the great character whose name it bears be forever held in veneration!
As to myself, it is my anxious desire so to execute the trust reposed in me as to render the people of the United States prosperous and happy.
Such circumstances call with peculiar importunity not less for a disposition to unite in all those measures on which the honor, safety, and prosperity of our country depend than for all the exertions of wisdom and firmness.