To call your nation brave, were to pronounce but common praise.

Wonderful people! Ages to come will read with astonishment the history of your brilliant exploits.

I rejoice that the period of your toils, and of your immense sacrifices is approaching.

I rejoice that the interesting revolutionary movements of so many years have issued in the formation of a constitution,[40] designed to give permanency to the great object for which you have contended.

I rejoice that liberty, which you have so long embraced with enthusiasm,--liberty, of which you have been the invincible defenders, now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government;--a government which, being formed to secure the happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States by its resemblance to their own.