hereby offer these : To show his loyalty to our confederate , and the constitution of our : To prevent quarrel and bloodshed on our frontiers: To extend the arm of deliverance to : To protect the inhabitants of from foreign aggression, and domestic broils: To prevent the crowned nations from encircleing us as a nation on our western and Southern borders and save the Eagle’s talon from the Lions paw: To still the tongue of slander, and show the world that a Republic can be, and not be ungrateful: To open the vast regions of the unpeopled west and South to our enlightened and enterprising yeomanry: To protect [p. [59]]