A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 1, part 2: John Adams by Unknown
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page 89 of 165 (53%)
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I can not close this address without once more adverting to our
political situation and inculcating the essential importance of uniting in the maintenance of our dearest interests; and I trust that by the temper and wisdom of your proceedings and by a harmony of measures we shall secure to our country that weight and respect to which it is so justly entitled. JOHN ADAMS. ADDRESS OF THE SENATE TO JOHN ADAMS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. SIR: The Senate of the United States join you in thanks to Almighty God for the removal of the late afflicting dispensations of His providence and for the patriotic spirit and general prosperity of our country. Sympathy for the sufferings of our fellow-citizens from disease and the important interests of the Union demand of the National legislature a ready cooperation with the State governments in the use of such means as seem best calculated to prevent the return of this fatal calamity. Although we have sincerely wished that an adjustment of our differences with the Republic of France might be effected on safe and honorable terms, yet the information you have given us of the ultimate failure of the negotiation has not surprised us. In the general conduct of that Republic we have seen a design of universal influence incompatible with the self-government and destructive of the independence of other States. |
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