at calm and enlightened judgment which ultimately governs our people as one vast body， will always be at hand to resist and control every effort， foreign or domestic， which aims or would lead to overthrow our institutions.
what can be more gratifying than such a retrospect as this？ we look back on obstacles avoided and dangers overcome， on expectations more than realized and prosperity perfectly secured. to the hopes of the hostile， the fears of the timid， and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply. we have seen time gradually dispel every unfavorable foreboding and our constitution surmount every adverse circumstance dreaded at the outset as beyond control. present excitement will at all times magnify present dangers， but true philosophy must teach us that none more threatening than the past can remain to be overcome； and we ought （for we have just reason） to entertain an abiding confidence in the stability of our institutions and an entire conviction that if administered in the true form， character， and spirit in which they were established they are abundantly adequate to preserve to us and our children the rich blessings already derived from them， to make our beloved land for a thousand generations that chosen spot where happiness springs from a perfect equality of political rights.
for myself， therefore， i desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a stri
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