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8869. WAR, Avoidance of.—[further continued].

To cherish and maintain
the rights and liberties of our citizens, and
to ward from them the burthens, the miseries,
and the crimes of war, by a just and friendly
conduct towards all nations * * * [are] among the most obvious and important duties
of those to whom the management of their
public interests * * * [are] confided.—
Reply to Baptist Address. Washington ed. viii, 119.
(1807)