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5196. MILITIA, Distant service.—[further continued].

If the marching of the
militia into an enemy's country be once ceded
as unconstitutional (which I hope it never
will be), then will [the British] force [in
Canada], as now strengthened, bid us permanent
defiance.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. vi, 131.
(M. June. 1813)