...those confidential officers, who have attended your person to this affecting moment. "We join you in commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, beseeching him to dispose the hearts and minds of its citizens, to improve the opportunity afforded...

...consider it as my indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by com-* mending the interests of our dearest country to the protection...farewell to this august body,, under whose orders I have so long acted, I her* offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life."...

...worthy of the favourable noiice and patronage • of congress. " I consider it as an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy...

...those confidential officers who have attended your person to this affecting moment. We join you in commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, beseeching him to dispose the hearts and minds of its citizens to improve the opportunity afforded...

...as worthy of the favorable notice and patronage of congress. "I consider it as an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life,...country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who i ;< vc the superintendence of them, to his holy keepfaff, "Having now finished the work assigned fne,...

...worthy of the favourable notice and patronage of Congress. " I consider it as my indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life,...dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and thoseiwho have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping. " Having now finished the work assigned...

...trust committed u> me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country. mending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and ihose who have the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping. "Having now finished the work assigned...

...favorable notice and patronage of Congress. I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests...great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate fare well to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, 1 here offer my commission,...

...soldiers to Congress, he concluded as follows : " I consider it an indispensable duty to close the last solemn act of my official life, by commending...and those who have the superintendence of them to hia holr keeping. " Haying now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action...

...power of the union, and the patronage of Heaven. I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last o?o pVotection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping. While...