arms for the defense of all that can be held dear to freemen, the officers of the militia of Lancaster county, —feeling themselves happy under the influence of a government of their own choice, mild and equal in its operation, and perfectly satisfied that it has been, and continues to be, administered

conciliation degrading to the national character and dishonorable to the government. If, unhappily, the United States be driven into hostility by the injustice and insatiate ambition of the French Republic, we trust that that benign Being, whose aid in our keenest distress we have so frequently experienced

glory.' "Resolved, That in every act of his long and eventful life, — from the period of early boyhood, when in the stormy days of 1776 battling for the liberties of his country, he, a prisoner of war, refused to perform a menial service for a British officer, down through the Bar, the Senate Hall, the