Thus their militia, like its patron Mars, is the issue only of the mother, without the concourse of royal Jupiter: yet law it is, if they vote it, in defiance to their fundamentals; like the old sexton, who swore his clock went true, whatever the sun said to the contrary.

He does not dare call out the militia to protect a negro charged with such a brutal crime;and if he did, the militia are white men, and who can say that their efforts would not be directed to keeping the negroes out of the way, in order that the white devils might do their worst?

The militia of settlers, numbering between four and five hundred, were soon but a minor portion of the defenders of the settlement.

But as far as they may want them, your example shows that a popular militia, like yours, is the mightiest national Defence.

The militia are the militia of the several States; lands are held under the laws of the States; descents, contracts, and all the concerns of private property, the administration of justice, and the whole criminal code, except in the cases of breaches of the laws of the United States made under and in conformity with the powers vested in Congress and of the laws of nations, are regulated by State laws.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.

That the militia of Hungary, thus developed, would be the most solid guardian of my country's freedom and independence, we have shown in our past struggles.

The frontier militia became a mere adjunctoften necessary, but always untrustworthyof the regular forces.

Congress has declared the militia to be "all citizens and those who have declared their intention to become such, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five."

Considering that our regular troops are employed for local purposes, and that the militia is our general reliance for great and sudden emergencies, you will doubtless think this institution worthy of a review, and give it those improvements of which you find it susceptible.

Colonel Bellinger's militia were many of them raw recruits, and the approach of a fleet unnerved a few of them; but the majority were cool as veterans.

The North Cork Militia were the worst; there are places in Ireland where you would not get a drink of water if they knew you came from Cork.