He hoped he would retire, and enjoy the happiness that awaited him in retirement.

He believed it would more conduce to that happiness that he should retire than if he should remain in office.

He believed the government of the United States, founded on the broad basis of the people, that they were competent to their own government, and the remaining of no man in office was necessary to the success of that government.

The people would truly be in a calamitous situation, if one man were essential to the existence of the government.

He was convinced that the United States produces a thousand citizens capable of filling the presidential chair, and he would trust to the discernment of the people for a proper choice.