ments have certainly occurred； but how just is the confidence of future safety imparted by the knowledge that each in succession has been happily removed！ overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions， and looking only to the general result， every patriot has reason to be satisfied. while the federal government has successfully performed its appropriate functions in relation to foreign affairs and concerns evidently national， that of every state has remarkably improved in protecting and developing local interests and individual welfare； and if the vibrations of authority have occasionally tended too much toward one or the other， it is unquestionably certain that the ultimate operation of the entire system has been to strengthen all the existing institutions and to elevate our whole country in prosperity and renown.
the last， perhaps the greatest， of the prominent sources of discord and disaster supposed to lurk in our political condition was the institution of domestic slavery. our forefathers were deeply impressed with the delicacy of this subject， and they treated it with a forbearance so evidently wise that in spite of every sinister foreboding it never until the present period disturbed the tranquillity of our common country. such a result is sufficient evidence of the justice and the patriotism of their course； it is evidence not to be mistaken that an adherence to it can prevent all embarrassment
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