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Excerpt from An Address to the People of the U. States: To Which Is Added, a Letter From the Hon. Timothy Pickering, a Senator of the United States From the State of Massachusetts, Exhibiting to His Constituents a View of the Imminent Danger of an Unnecessary and Ruinous War
Let us for a moment call to mind the late unrivalled progrefs of our national and individual growth, that we may the more fenfibly feel the fad reverfe, and the neceflity, the abfolnte necefo {ity of a vigorous effort to regain the g1ound we have lcll Um til this fudden and unexpeéted inteirupmon of our profperity, peace frn llccl in our borders and plenty enriched our {lores The produce of the hufbandman found a ready market; and a liberal price rewarded his laborious induflry. Our commerce Was ?our ifhing to a degree unparalleled in the hifiory of nations. The: wants of diliant nations were fupplied by our aclive enterp1ize, and we 1n return received from them the full fupply of all our necefiities. Every breeze wafted us plenty, and the mo?; dillant and unfrequented oceans were whitened with our ia1ls.
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