The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

The stars upon your banner have become nearly threefold their original number; your densely populated possessions skirt the shores of the two great oceans.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all na…