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6482. PEACE, Cherishing.—[continued].

Having seen the people
of all other nations bowed down to the earth
under the wars and prodigalities of their
rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace,
economy, and riddance of public debt, believing
that these were the high road to public
as well as private prosperity and happiness.—
To Henry Middleton. Washington ed. vi, 90.
(M. Jan. 1813)