pleased with the occasion and with the circum- stances which had thrown them together. On the same evening, at their camp, Captains Law and Presst- man, of the Baltimore militia, gratified our citizens by their polite attentions. The camp was brilliant with ladies. Hundreds of persons were present. They

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ought to feel the strongest attachment to the militia of their country. They discern in that body their husbands, their sons and their brothers, associated under the laws in the sup- port of our constitutions. They perceive in those institutions a spirit of justice, quickened by the tenderest humanity