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Always a friend to peace, and believing
it to promote eminently the happiness and
prosperity of mankind, I am ever unwilling
that it should be disturbed until greater and
more imperious interests call for an appeal
to force. Whenever that shall take place,
I feel a perfect confidence that the energy and
enterprise displayed by my fellow citizens in
the pursuits of peace, will be equally eminent
in those of war.

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