3662. HARMONY, Incumbent on all.—
The times do certainly render it incumbent
on all good citizens, attached to the rights and
honor of their country, to bury in oblivion
all internal differences, and rally around
the standard of their country in opposition to
the outrages of foreign nations. All attempts
to enfeeble and destroy the exertions of the
General Government, in vindication of our
national rights, or to loosen the bands of
union by alienating the affections of the people,
or opposing the authority of the laws
at so eventful a period, merit the discountenance
of all.—
To Governor Tompkins. Washington ed. viii, 153.
(1809)
