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the new-born nation. “No people”, he said, “can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.”
He went on to say that “the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable priniciples of private morality...since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and might which Heaven itself has ordained...”
The Senate’s address to him one week later agreed with him on all points: “When we contemplate the coincidence of circumstances and wonderful combination of causes which gradually prepared the people of this country for independence; when we contemplate the rise, progress. and termination of the late war...we are with you unavoidably led to acknowledge and adore the Great Arbiter of the Universe, by whom empires rise and fall...We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should bt* laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue... We commend you, sir, to the protection of Almighty God...”
Although the House of Representatives was then, as now, the more contentious of the two Houses
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