examples which ought to impress on the enemy, however brave and powerful, preference of justice and peace to hostility against a country whose prosperous career may be accelerated but can not be prevented by the assaults made on it.
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An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.
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