"The objections which have been brought against a standingarmy, and they are many and weighty, and deserve toprevail, may also at last be brought against a standinggovernment. The standing army is only an arm of thestanding government. The government itself, which is onlythe mode which the people have chosen to execute theirwill, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before thepeople can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure."

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