Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives︰ A mong the vicissitudes incident to life，no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.On the one hand，I was summoned by my country，whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love，from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection，and，in my flattering hopes，with an immutable decision，as the asylum of my declining years—a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination，and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.On the other hand，the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me，being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications，could not but overwhelm with despondence one who （inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration）ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.In this conflict of emotions，all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected.All I dare hope is that if，in executing this task，I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances，or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens，and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me，my error will be palliated by the motives which mislead me ，and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of hte partiality in which they originated.（P1—2）

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