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6465. PATRIOTISM, Sacrifices for.—

To preserve the peace of our fellow citizens,
promote their prosperity and happiness, reunite
opinion, cultivate a spirit of candor,
moderation, charity and forbearance toward
one another, are objects calling for the efforts
and sacrifices of every good man and
patriot. Our religion enjoins it; our happiness
demands it; and no sacrifice is requisite
but of passions hostile to both.—
To Rhode Island Assembly. Washington ed. iv, 397.
(W. 1801)