I lay before you, for your consideration, a treaty of peace which has been negotiated by General Wayne, on behalf of the United States, with all the late hostile tribes of Indians northwest of the river Ohio.
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It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be conveyed to them.
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.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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