Meanwhile in our island the regular course of government has never been for a day interrupted.

The few bad men who longed for license and plunder have not had the courage to confront for one moment the strength of a loyal nation, rallied in firm array round a parental throne.

And, if it be asked what has made us to differ from others, the answer is that we never lost what others are wildly and blindly seeking to regain.

It is because we had a preserving revolution in the seventeenth century that we have not had a destroying revolution in the nineteenth.

It is because we had freedom in the midst of servitude that we have order in the midst of anarchy.