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There Is Every Reason To Believe That Our System Will Soon Attain The Highest Degree Of Perfection Of Which Human Institutions Are Capable.

It Is Only When The People Become Ignorant And Corrupt, When They Degenerate Into A Populace, That They Are Incapable Of Exercising The Sovereignty. Usurpation Is Then An Easy Attainment, And A Usurper Soon Found. The People Themselves Become The Willing Instruments Of Their Own Debasement And Ruin. Let Us, Then, Look To The Great Cause, And Endeavor To Preserve It In Full Force. Let Us By All Wise And Constitutional Measures Promote Intelligence Among The People As The Best Means Of Preserving Our Liberties.

It Is Better To Spread Trust All Around Than To Hand Out Money!

I Regret That I Should Leave This World Without Again Beholding Him.

By The Last Returns To The Department Of War The Militia Force Of The Several States May Be Estimated At 800,000 Men - Infantry, Artillery, And Cavalry.