In such a state of things we dare not be totally unmindful of ourselves or totally neglectful of that military position to which, in spite of the prudence and pacific disposition of our government, we may be driven for the preservation of our liberty and national independence.
Marshall stresses the importance of maintaining military readiness for the preservation of liberty and independence, despite a pacifist government stance.
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To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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