to do wrong is a melancholy resource. even where retaliation renders it indispensably necessary. it is better to suffer much from the scalpings, the incensions conflagrations, the rapes and rapine of savages, than to countenance and strengthen such barbarisms by retortion. I have ever deemed it...

all entanglements with that quarter of the globe should be avoided if we mean that peace & justice shall be the polar stars of the American societies.