drop-title Memorial of Alden Partridge and Edmund Burke in behalf of the state military convention of Vermont praying the adoption of a plan proposed by them for the reorganization of the militia of the United States. February 9 1839.
183918146Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1839. 8vo. 19 pp. <br><br>Referred to the Committee on the Militia and ordered to be printed and that 5000 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate." The memorialists assert that the plan would "render a standing army beyond a small peace establishment just sufficient to protect our necessary fortifications arsenals &c. totally unnecessary and place the military defence of the country where the framers of the constitution evidently intended it to be placed in the hands of the people themselves the only safe guardians of our national independence and of our civil and religious liberties." Government document: 25th Congress 3d Session. Senate. 197. Removed from a nonce volume. Ink numeral at top right corner of p. 1. Very good. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
