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3981. INSURRECTION, American people and.—

My long and intimate knowledge of
my countrymen satisfies me, that let there be
occasion to display the banners of the law,
and the world will see how few and pitiful
are those who shall array themselves in opposition.—
To James Brown. Washington ed. v, 379. Ford ed., ix, 211.
(W. 1808)