Fellow-citizens, the momentous case is before you.  On your undivided support of your Government depends the decision of the great question it involves—­whether your sacred Union will be preserved and the blessing it secures to us as one people shall be perpetuated.  No one can doubt that the unanimity with which that decision will be expressed will be such as to inspire new confidence in republican institutions, and that the prudence, the wisdom, and the courage which it will bring to their defense will transmit them unimpaired and invigorated to our children.

May the Great Ruler of Nations grant that the signal blessings with which He has favored ours may not, by the madness of party or personal ambition, be disregarded and lost; and may His wise providence bring those who have produced this crisis to see the folly before they feel the misery of civil strife, and inspire a returning veneration for that Union which, if we may dare to penetrate His designs, He has chosen as the only means of attaining the high destinies to which we may reasonably aspire.

(SEAL.)

In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my hand.  Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of December, A.D. 1832, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-seventh.

ANDREW JACKSON.

By the President: 
EDW.  LIVINGSTON,
Secretary of State.

ERRATA.

(The following papers were found too late for insertion in Vol.  I.)

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT ELECT.

(From Annals of Congress, Fourth Congress, second session, 1544.)

The Vice-President laid before the Senate the following communication: 

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

In consequence of the declaration made yesterday in the Chamber of the House of Representatives of the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, the record of which has just now been read from your journal by your secretary, I have judged it proper to give notice that on the 4th of March next, at 12 o’clock, I propose to attend again in the Chamber of the House of Representatives, in order to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President, to be administered by the Chief Justice or such other judge of the Supreme Court of the United States as can most conveniently attend, and, in case none of those judges can attend, by the judge of the district of Pennsylvania, before such Senators and Representatives of the United States as may find it convenient to honor the transaction with their presence.

(JOHN ADAMS.)

FEBRUARY 9, 1797.

PROCLAMATION.

(From Annals of Congress, Fifth Congress, Vol.  I, 620.)