Whig (nationalist) State Representative Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, speaking to the Young Men’s Lyceum, In Springfield, extols the strengths and virtues of the Militia system:
From where shall we expect the approach of danger? All the armies of Europe and Asia could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio [River] or make a trace on the Blue Ridge [Mountains], in the trial of a thousand years. … If destruction is to be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher.
NOTE: When Lincoln spoke these words, the Army of the united States had an authorized strength of only 9,197, with a reserve augmentation of another 3,558 Yet the combined strength of ALL State Militias was over 3,000,000; that was larger than any army that Napoleon was able to raise.
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Article I of Amendment
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References:
Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,” (January 27, 1838), Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, nine volumes, Roy P. Basler, ed., 1:420-21.
Russell Frank Weigley, History of the United States Army, (London: Macmillan, 1967), 162, 566.
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