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THE immediate effects of so much virtue, wisdom and exertion, were obvious to the most superficial observer.

UNDER the auspices of that government, which the weight. of his opinions had so largely contributed to frame, and to establish, and under the happy influence of such an administration of its provisions, the prosperity of our country was advanced beyond the most sanguine expectations of patriotism.

HOPE and happiness were substituted to gloom and misfortune--and national respect succeeded to national degradation.

THE labor of the husbandman, the industry of the mechanic, the enterprize of the merchant, were all protected and rewarded.

THE surplus products of our soil were exchanged in profitable barter the busy hum of men was again heard in our deserted harbors and the canvass of our commerce was spread to every gale.

THE restoration of public credit gave confidence to private transaction-and the strict dispensation of justice silenced the last murmur of complaint.

It was no less honorable to the people of the United States. than to their illustrious benefactor, that the acknowledgment of his transcendent merits was the delightful theme of every class and condition.

INFANCY was taught to lisp his praise-youth and manhood poured forth the effusions of their gratitude-and the blessings of age were expressed with the fervor of feeling, and the solemnity of religion.

STATES and individuals were emulous to express his worth. He was the boast of our nation among strangers-and an object of veneration to every people.

In this happy conjuncture of our affairs, the torch of war was lighted in Europe, and threatened to extend its flame to this favored portion of the globe.

To that guardian care, whose unceasing vigilance watched over us to the hero, whose protecting arm, in the hour of inevitable conflict, had borne aloft the conquering banner of our country, were we indebted for the preservation of peace, and an exemption from the distress and danger of foreign war.

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PROCLAIMING to the people of the United States, and to the belligerent powers, the determination of our government to maintain an impartial neutrality, he continued, by an undeviating course of honorable policy, to ensure to his country the blessings of peace, and the benefits of the most advantageous position.

DURING the desolation of war her commerce was extended, and her redundant harvests administered to the wants of less favored nations.

On the revolution of his official term of service, an opportunity was afforded to express the public sense of his administration and it was manifested in the most singular demonstration of gratitude and applause, that has ever been bestowed.

HAVING nominated, in the first instance, to all the offices of the general government-and having unavoidably disappointed the wishes of numerous expectants,-yet such had been the propriety of his appointments, and such the purity of his conduct, that, on the second election of chief magistrate, there was not found, among several millions of people, a single dissent from the choice of this immaculate man.

He was unanimously re-elected to preside over their political concerns, and to continue the blessings of his administration.

AMONG the multiplied advantages of that administration, the philanthropist will review, with peculiar pleasure, an inva

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riable attention to conciliate the aboriginal inhabitants of our country, and an unremitting endeavor to ameliorate their hapless condition.

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REGARDING the interests of this unfortunate race as sacredand viewing a compliance with their claims to protection, as among the first duties of the government, his beneficent patronage was extended to every object which might promote their welfare, or prevent the evils incident to their situation.

To the injunctions of public negociation, he united the admonitions of personal sensibility, and the most benevolent concern for this unhappy people.

THE astonished savage beheld, in the far-famed chief of an hostile nation, the protector of his tribe, and the zealous friend of their happiness-his doubts of safety were changed to admiring confidence-and the vindictive spirit of revenge was lost in a grateful sense of unexpected favor and kindness.

HAVING obtained, by treaty, a surrender of the military posts on our western frontier, he was enabled, in a great measure, to carry into effect the magnanimous policy, which he had instituted towards the Indian tribes-and to extend, at the same time, to the white inhabitants, in that quarter of the Union, the security of peace, and the benefits of a friendly intercourse with their immediate neighbors.

WHILE intent on the completion of a general pacific system, in relation to the affairs of the United States, he was not insensible to the mutable policy of nations, nor inattentive to the necessary measures of military defence.

He believed it essential to the safety of our extensive commerce, and to the dignity of our national character, to enter on the formation of a naval establishment, which he considered as the best, and the natural, defence of the United States.

THE sanction of his opinion was accordingly given to this important measure.

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IN reviewing the principal features of his public character, and their beneficial results, we are led no less to applaud the benevolence, than to admire the discernment, of his philanthropic and capacious mind.

WITH native, and acquired, propensities to military glorywith every incentive to the exercise of arms, which consummate skill in war, or the hope of distinction could supply-peace was the ruling principle of his conduct, and the tranquil prosperity of his country was the dearest object of his ambition....

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In the grateful belief that this anxious wish was accomplished, he intimated his intention to decline the honors of his high station, and to withdraw from all public employment.

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To this intimation, conveyed in an address to the people of the United States, was subjoined a series of opinions, on the subject of their public concerns, the legacy of an affectionate father to a beloved family, containing the most instructive, interesting and important advice that has ever been submitted to any nation.

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AN observance of those maxims would ensure our political welfare, and promote our social happiness-they are no less calculated to improve the heart than to inform the judgment—they should be committed to the memory of the young, and the me ditation of the old-they are invaluable to the, present generation and they will be regarded by succeeding ages, as the best and highest eulogium of this transcendent character.co

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YIELDING to his desire of repose, his grateful countrymen invoked the blessing of heaven on the close of his illustrious life, and acquiesced in his intention to retire.

BEHOLD him, returned to the station of a private citizen, enforcing, by correct example, those rules of conduct, which, with modest diffidence, he had offered to the consideration of his country.

DIVESTED of every distinction, and without a personal attendant, he mingled in the throng of citizens, and was the first to express the homage of his esteem, which was respectful, affectionate and sincere, at the inauguration of his successorto whom, no less than to the memory of the illustrious dead, it is due to remark that, in their personal intercourse, and in all their official relations, the most cordial friendship, and beneficial harmony, had uniformly subsisted.

To attest the perfection of public principle, it will be for ever remembered that the distinguished patriot, who had so long, and so ably, presided in the concerns of the nation, consented to accept a secondary commission, at a period of life, when no consideration but the safety of his country, and complete confidence in the measures of her government, could have required or prompted the service of the venerable chief.

THE sentiments of his judicious and comprehensive mind, as expressed in his own words, on this important occasion, are too honorable to his memory, too just in their application to his successor, and too interesting to our country, in their relation to future events, not to be here recited. See appendix, p. 34.

SUCH was the triumph of patriotism-and such the dignified completion of his public character.

WITH the accomplishments of the hero, and the attributes of the statesman, we are now to connect the interesting theme of domestic life, and the useful virtues of his private charac

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FAVORED of heaven, he was blest in the most endeared relation of human society.

THE amiable and much respected partner of his happiness, enjoyed his affection and esteem, and was worthy to participate the honors of his exalted station.

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