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which God & nature have given her, & which her industrious citizens are justly entitled to enjoy. But so long as the maritime nations of Europe shall continue to prosecute their wars, their avarice & pride will stimulate them to measures which will of ten clash with the rights of the American people, & the peace of our country will be put to hazard. We have already have sufficient experience of these injurious effects, to admonish us of our duty, as a free & independent State, that we be prepared to resist every aggression; to point out to us the necessity of a vigorous exertion, in placing our military affairs in the most formidable attitude; & to omit nothing which will conduce to give energy to our united strength.