The withdrawal of that force from its proper duty of defending the country against foreign foes or the savages of the frontier to employ it for the suppression of domestic insurrection is, when the exigency occurs, a matter of the most earnest solicitude.
Pierce reflects on the concern of using military forces for domestic issues instead of foreign defense.
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