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of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed,
and not before.
With an humble confidence in the mercies of the supreme and impartial Judge and Ruler of the Universe, we most devoutly implore his divine goodness to protect us happily through this great conflict, to dispose
our adversaries to reconciliation on reasonable terms, and thereby to relieve the empire from the calamities of civil war.