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8947. WAR OF 1812, Benefits of.—[continued].

The war [of 1812] has
done us * * * the further [good] of assuring
the world, that although attached to
peace from a sense of its blessings, we will meet
war when it is made necessary.—
To Marquis de Lafayette. Washington ed. vii, 67. Ford ed., x, 84.
(M. 1817)