I content myself with recalling your attention, generally, to such objects, not particularized in my present, as have been suggested in my former communications to you.
Various temporary laws will expire during the present session. Among these, that which regulates trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes will merit particular attention.
The results of your common deliberations hitherto, will, I trust, be productive of solid and durable advantages to our constituents; such as, by conciliating more and more their ultimate suffrage, will tend to strengthen and confirm their attachment to that constitution of Government upon which, under Divine Providence, materially depend their Union, their safety, and their happiness.
Still further to promote and secure these inestimable ends, there is nothing which can have a more powerful tendency, than the careful cultivation of harmony, combined with a due regard to stability in the public councils.
G. WASHINGTON.
United States, November 6, 1792.
The President of the United States having retired, and the two Houses being separated,
Ordered, That Messrs. Strong, King, and Rutherford, be a committee to prepare and report the draft of an Address to the President of the United States, in answer to his Speech this day, to both Houses of Congress convened in the Senate Chamber.
Ordered, That the Speech of the President of the United States, delivered this day, be printed for the use of the Senate.