It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of libe…

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It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.
Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first.
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.