It was a period of uninterrupted prosperity to the country.

Our foreign commerce, recovering from the paralysis caused by the embargo, the non-intercourse act, and the war, spread forth its wings and whitened every sea and ocean on the globe.

The domestic condition of the Union was thriving beyond the precedent of many former years.

Improvements in agriculture were developed; domestic manufactures received a fair protection and encouragement; internal improvements, gaining more and more the attention and confidence of the people, had been prosecuted to the evident benefit of all branches of business and enterprize.
Another characteristic of the administration of Mr.Monroe is worthy of note.

So judiciously and patriotically had he exercised the powers entrusted to him, that he disarmed opposition.