The edifice of your real independence the support of your tranquility at home your
peace abroad of your safety of your
prosperity of that very liberty which you so
highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that
from different causes and from different
quarters, much pains will be taken many
artifices employed to weaken in your minds
the conviction of this truth; as this is the point
in your political fortress against which the
batteries of internal and external enemies will
be most constantly and actively... directed it
is of infinite (importance) that you should
properly estimate the immense value of your
national union to your collective and
individual happiness that you should cherish
a cordial, habitual and immovable
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