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I Anticipate The Day When To Command Respect In The Remotest Regions It Will Be Sufficient To Say I Am An American. Our Flag Shall Then Wave In Glory Over The Ocean And Our Commerce Feel No Restraint But What Our Own Government May Impose. Happy Thrice Happy Day. Thank God, To Reach This Envied State We Need Only To Will. Yes My Countrymen. Our Destiny Depends On Our Will. But If We Would Stand High On The Record Of Time That Will Must Be Inflexible.

The Rich Will Strive To Establish Their Dominion And Enslave The Rest. They Always Did...they Always Will. They Will Have The Same Effect Here As Elsewhere, If We Do Not, By The Power Of Government, Keep Them In Their Proper Spheres.

I Look Forward Serenely To The Course Of Events, Confident That The Fountain Of Supreme Wisdom And Virtue Will Provide For The Happiness Of His Creatures... Whenever The Present Storm Subsides, I Shall Rush With Eagerness Into The Bosom Of Private Life, But While It Continues, And While My Country Calls For The Exertion Of That Little Share Of Abilities, Which It Has Pleased God To Bestow On Me, I Hold It My Indispensable Duty To Give Myself To Her.

In Adopting The Republican Form Of Government, I Not Only Took It As A Man Does His Wife, For Better, For Worse, But, What Few Men Do With Their Wives, I Took It Knowing All Its Bad Qualities.

He Asks How The Evil Is To Be Remedied. I Tell Him That There Seems To Be Little Chance For Avoiding The Extremes Of Despotism Or Anarchy; That The Only Ground Of Hope Must Be The Morals Of The People, But That These Are, I Fear, Too Corrupt.