"We can not," said Mr.Johnson, a gentleman of great political eminence in Maryland, "do without you, and I, and thousands more can explain to any body but yourself, why we can not do without you." "I have ever thought," said Mr.Gouverneur Morris, a gentleman who had been among the most valuable members of congress through great part of the war, and who had performed a most splendid part in the general convention, "and have ever said that you must be president; no other man can fill that office.

No other man can draw forth the abilities of our country into the various departments of civil life.

You alone can awe the insolence of opposing factions, and the greater insolence of assuming adherents.

I say nothing of foreign powers, nor of their ministers.
With these last you will have some plague.

As to your feelings on this occasion, they are, I know, both deep and affecting; you embark property most precious on a most tempestuous ocean: for, as you possess the highest reputation, so you expose it to the perilous chance of popular opinion.