The Bible is the Book upon which this Republic rests.

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.

But amid this general prosperity and splendid success the dangers of which he warned us are becoming every day more evident.

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

At every hazard and by every sacrifice this Union must be preserved.

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

This Union must be preserved.

It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.

The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.