elings of our country， the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents， spotless integrity， ardent patriotism， and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this government， and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error. the revolutionary wars of europe， commencing precisely at the moment when the government of the united states first went into operation under this constitution， excited a collision of sentiments and of sympathies which kindled all the passions and imbittered the conflict of parties till the nation was involved in war and the union was shaken to its center. this time of trial embraced a period of five and twenty years， during which the policy of the union in its relations with europe constituted the principal basis of our political divisions and the most arduous part of the action of our federal government. with the catastrophe in which the wars of the french revolution terminated， and our own subsequent peace with great britain， this baneful weed of party strife was uprooted. from that time no difference of principle， connected either with the theory of government or with our intercourse with foreign nations， has existed or been called forth in force sufficient to sustain a continued combination of parties or to give more than wholesome animation to public sentiment or legislative debate. our political creed is， without a dissenting voice that can be heard，
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