Our forefathers were tried, as we have been tried--and their virtue did not sink under the duties which the decrees of Providence imposed upon it.

They triumphed, though less signally than we have done;--following their example, let us now cultivate fortitude, encourage hope and chearful industry; and give way to enterprise.

So will prosperity return.

The stream, which has been checked, will flow with recruited vigour--and, when another century shall have passed away, the ambition of France will be as little formidable to our then-existing Posterity as it is now to us.

But the lessons of History must be studied;--they teach us that, under every form of civil polity, war will contrive to lift up its head, and most pertinaciously in those States where the People have most sway.