On the recordOctober 31, 1791
I received yesterday from the judge of the district of South Carolina a letter,...
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If the bill passes into a law, the two companies of light dragoons will be from that moment legally out of service.
I must not conceal from you my earnest wish that the choice had fallen upon a man less declined in years and better qualified to encounter the usual vicissitudes of war.
Satisfied, therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavored to avert war, and exhausted to the last drop the cup of reconciliation, we can with pure hearts appeal to Heaven for the justice of our cause.
To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country.