It found the United States at war with the Indian nations; It hath concluded peace with them all. It found the aboriginals of the soil inveterate enemies of the whites; It hath exercised toward them justice and generosity, and hath left them fast friends. It found Great Britain in possession of all the frontier posts; It hath demanded their surrender, and it leaves them in the possession of the United States. It found the American sea-coast utterly defenseless; It hath left it fortified. It found our arsenals empty, and magazines decaying; It hath left them full of ammunition and warlike implements. It found our country dependent on foreign nations for engines of defense; It hath left manufactories of cannon and musquets in full work. It found the American Nation at war with Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli; It hath made peace with them all. It found American freemen in Turkish slavery, where they had languished in chains for years; It hath ransomed them and set them free. It found the war-worn, invalid soldier starving from want; or, like Belisarius, begging his refuse-meat from door to door; It hath left ample provision for the regular payment of his pension. It found the commerce of our country confined almost to coasting craft; It hath left it whitening every sea with its canvas, and cheering every clime with its stars. It found our mechanics and manufacturers idle in the streets for want of employ; It hath left them full of business, prosperous, contented, and happy. It found the yeomanry of the country oppressed with unequal taxes; their farms, houses, and barns decaying; their cattle selling at the sign-posts; and they driven to desperation and rebellion; It hath left their coffers in cash, their houses in repair, their barns full, their farms overstocked, and their produce commanding ready money and a high price. In short, it found them poor, indigent malcontents; It hath left them wealthy friends to order and good government. It found the United States deeply in debt to France and Holland; It hath paid all the demands of the former, and the principal part of the latter. It found the country in a ruinous alliance with France; It hath honorably dissolved the connection, and set us free. It found the United States without a swivel on float for their defense; It hath left a Navy--composed of 34 ships of war, mounting 918 guns, and manned by 7350 gallant tars.