The Apology of an Officer, for Withdrawing from the Profession of Arms Contained in a Letter Addressed to the King, and a Series of Letters to a Friend, on the Causes and Evils of War, Its Unlawfulness, &C (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Apology of an Officer, for Withdrawing From the Profession of Arms: Contained in a Letter Addressed to the King, and a Series of Letters to a Friend, on the Causes and Evils of War, Its Unlawfulness, &C

When a subject presumes publicly to address his sovereign, on a matter which he deems of the very highest importance to the welfare and happiness of mankind, he cannot, 'if his motives are pure, help feeling much anxiety to acquit himself in a way that may best promote his views that may give no of. Fence to the sovereign he addresses and that may, as much as possible, disarm public censure.

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