To still the tongue of Slander, and shew 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 them in their researches; To secure them in their locations, and thus strengthen the Government and enlarge her borders: To extend her influence: To inspire the nations with the Spirit of Freedom, and win them to her standard: To promote intelligence: To cultivate and establish peace among all, with whom we may have intercourse as neighbors: To settle all existing difficulties, among those not organized into an acknowledged government bordering upon the and territories: To save the national revenue in the ’s coffers: To supersede the necessity of a standing army, on our western and southern frontier: To create and maintain the principles of peace, and suppress Mobs, insurrections, and oppression in , and all lands bordering upon the , and not incorporated into any acknowledged national government: To explore the unexplored regions of our Continent: To open new feildsfields for enterprize to our Citizens, and protect them therein: To search out the antiquities of the Land, and thereby promote the arts, and sciences and general information: To amalgamate the feelings of all with whom he may have intercourse, on the principles of Equity, liberty, justice, humanity and benevelonce: To break down tyranny and oppression, and exalt the Standard of Universal peace: Provided he shall have the privilege, and be protected in those fights and privileges, which constitutionally belong to every citizen of this :— Therefore, that the said Memorialist may have the privilige; and that no citizen of these shall obstruct, or attempt to obstruct or hinder so good,, so great, so noble an enterprize, to carry out those plans and principles, as set forth in this preamble, and be shielded from every opposition by evil and designing men.