Happily for our country, its peaceful policy and rapidly increasing population impose upon us no urgent necessity for preparation, and leave but few trackless deserts between assailable points and a patriotic people ever ready and generally able to protect them.
Pierce reflects on the advantages of a peaceful nation with a growing population that does not require urgent military preparations.
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