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been allowed long since, and the virtuous and faithful soldier who has paid back his wages in his taxes would have been indemnified. But let it be remembered that the acts of the Executive, as an official agent, cannot in policy or equity affect the claim of the citizen who obeys a national enactment and aids to effect a national object. If this were a merely pecuniary concern, it would be derogatory and unpleasant on one side to urge, and on the other to refuse payment; but while the difference between the parties grows only out of a mutual desire to maintain constitutional opinions, honestly entertained, there will, certainly, with high-minded men, always be preserved the most friendly dispositions. It is not believed unsafe to predict that within a few years, the claim will be satisfactory adjusted through the magnanimity and justice of Congress. It will be perceived that it will not be safe, under our system, to discourage the Militia in consequence of the offences [offenses] of their officers, because the command of Public Spirit should, and will direct, and has been obeyed in spite of all difficulties; but Public Spirit cannot be sustained without governmental patronage. There could not be a more pernicious course by the United States, than to impute the sins of any man or party, and to attach the consequences of them to patriotic yeomen who served in their cause. Those men liable at any time to be called upon to expose their lives for the safety of all, require an annual legislative review of their condition, and every reasonable measure calculated to give them animation and vigor. Quartered as they are at large in every dwelling, for domestic security, easily concentrated for war, yet, having a common interest, requiring a common cause for the disturbance of peace, they ought to be, as they are, willing to endure much toil and trouble as a necessary security of the rank they enjoy, and the noble privileges they participate.

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-been allowed ling since, and the virtuous and faithful soldier who has paid back his wages in his taxes would have been indemnified. But let it be remembered that the acts of the Executive, as an official agent, cannot in policy or equity affect the claim of the citizen who obeys a national enactment and aids to effect a national object.
-    If this were a merely pecuniary concern, it would be derogatory and unpleasant on one side to urge, and on the other to refuse payment; but while the difference between the parties grows only out of a mutual desire to maintain constitutional opinions, honestly entertained, there will, certainly, with high minded men, always be preserved the most friendly dispositions. It is not believed unsafe to predict that within a few years, the claim will be satisfactory adjusted through the magnanimity and justice of Congress.
+been allowed long since, and the virtuous and faithful soldier who has paid back his wages in his taxes would have been indemnified. But let it be remembered that the acts of the Executive, as an official agent, cannot in policy or equity affect the claim of the citizen who obeys a national enactment and aids to effect a national object.
-   It will be perceived that it will not be safe, under our system, to discourage the Militia in consequence of the offenses of their officers, because the command of Public Spirit should, and will direct, and has been obeyed in spite of all difficulties; but Public Spirit cannot be sustained without governmental patronage. There could not be a more pernicious course by the United States, than to impute the sins of any man or party, and to attach the consequences of them to patriotic yeomen who served in their cause.
+If this were a merely pecuniary concern, it would be derogatory and unpleasant on one side to urge, and on the other to refuse payment; but while the difference between the parties grows only out of a mutual desire to maintain constitutional opinions, honestly entertained, there will, certainly, with high-minded men, always be preserved the most friendly dispositions. It is not believed unsafe to predict that within a few years, the claim will be satisfactory adjusted through the magnanimity and justice of Congress.
-    Those men liable at any time to be called upon to expose their lives for the safety of all, require an annual legislative review of their condition, and every reasonable measure calculated to give them animation and vigor. Quartered as they are at large in every dwelling, for domestic security, easily concentrated for war, yet, having a common interest, requiring a common cause for the disturbance of peace, they ought to be, as they are, willing to endure much toil and trouble as a necessary security of the rank they enjoy, and the noble privileges they participate.
+It will be perceived that it will not be safe, under our system, to discourage the Militia in consequence of the offences [offenses] of their officers, because the command of Public Spirit should, and will direct, and has been obeyed in spite of all difficulties; but Public Spirit cannot be sustained without governmental patronage. There could not be a more pernicious course by the United States, than to impute the sins of any man or party, and to attach the consequences of them to patriotic yeomen who served in their cause.
+Those men liable at any time to be called upon to expose their lives for the safety of all, require an annual legislative review of their condition, and every reasonable measure calculated to give them animation and vigor. Quartered as they are at large in every dwelling, for domestic security, easily concentrated for war, yet, having a common interest, requiring a common cause for the disturbance of peace, they ought to be, as they are, willing to endure much toil and trouble as a necessary security of the rank they enjoy, and the noble privileges they participate.