Standing Army

.—It is directly against the prin­ciple of our blessed and glorious constitution to keep up a standing army, and yet we have an im­mense one, which is renewed every year under the fiction of a mutiny-bill. What an insult upon the people! What a mockery of justice! What a faithful adherence to the cause for which out fa­thers fought and bled! Who can view with a com­placent eye, these locusts of the earth, “eating up the people, as it were bread,” these drones that are armed with the sting of the bee, to plunder with impunity, and fatten on the spoils of other’s industry, not to defend the well-earned pittance of their own!