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letter from president thomas jefferson to governor hull.3.
Homes until some aggression, committed or intended shall render it necessary. When called into action, it will not be for a lounging. But for an active and perhaps distant service. I know the effect of this consideration in kindling that ardour which prevails for this service, and I count on it for filling up the numbers requisite without delay. To yourself, I am sure, it must be as desirable as it is to me, to transfer this service from the great Mass of Militiatothat portion of them to whose habits and
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