In this we have much to do,
in further fortifying our seaport towns, providing military stores,
classing and disciplining our militia, arranging our financial, system,
and above all, pushing our domestic manufactures, which have taken such
root as never again can be shaken. Once more, God bless you. T.J.
LETTER CXXII.*--TO MR. WENDOVER, March 13, 1815
TO MR. WENDOVER.
Monticello, March 13, 1815.
[* This is endorsed;' not sent.']
Sir,
Your favor of January the 30th was received after long delay on the
road, and I have to thank you for the volume of Discourses which you
have been so kind as to send me. I have gone over them with great
satisfaction, and concur with the able preacher in his estimate of
the character of the belligerents in our late war, and lawfulness of
defensive war. I consider the war, with him, as 'made on good advice,'
that is, for just causes, and its dispensation as providential,
inasmuch, as it has exercised our patriotism and submission to order,
has planted and invigorated among us arts of urgent necessity, has
manifested the strong and the weak parts of our republican institutions,
and the excellence of a representative democracy compared with the
misrule of Kings, has rallied the opinions of mankind to the natural
rights of expatriation, and of a common property in the ocean, and
raised us to that grade in the scale of nations which the bravery and
liberality of our citizen soldiers, by land and by sea, the wisdom of
our institutions and their observance of justice, entitled us to in the
eyes of the world.
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