Excerpt from Message From the President of the United States, Transmitting the Treaty of Peace and Amity Between the United States and His Britannic Majesty: February 20, 1815
The reduction of the public expenditures to the demands ofa peace establishment, will, doubtless, engage the immediate attention of congress. There are, however, important considerations which for bid a sudden and general revocation of the mea sures that ltave been produced by the war. Ex perience has taught us that neither the pacific dis’ positions of the American people, nor the pacific character of their political institutions, can altoge ther exempt them from that strife which appears, beyond the ordinary lot of nations, to be incident to the actual period of the world; and the same faithful monitor demonstrates that a certain degree of preparation for war, is not only indispensable to avert disasters in the onset, but affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. The wisdom of congress will, therefore, I am confident, provide for the maintenance of an adequate regu lar force; for the gradual advancement of the naval establishment; for improving all the means of har bor defence; for adding discipline to the distin guished bravery of the militia; and for cultivating the military art, in its essential branches, tinder the liberal patronage ofgovernment.
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