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to state against the repeated and urgent demands for legislative subversion of our present military establishment to be followed as may be feared by the imposition of one calculated to be dangerous to our liberties, that of a militia organized and paid directly and exclusively by the United States who will in the end tempt the States to that fatal measure, as they have been tempted in other cases.

 The civil and social effects of our militia arrangements, are not less calculated to sustain our institutions, that can be courage and discipline to defend the country.
Never was there an instance of the overthrow of despotism without militia, nor an efficient militia without