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Excerpt from The American Quarterly Review, Vol. 22: September and December, 1837 May the time come when all bloodshed shall be considered as murder, whether in war or duels. War, said the good Bishop Porteus, is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would never play at - and further he says, that, owing to the folly of mankind, though one murder makes a villain, yet he that murders a million is called a hero. Franklin, one of the wisest of men, hated war. At the close of the American revolution, one week after the treaty of peace was signed, he wrote thus May we never see another war, for, in my opinion, there never was a good war, nor a bad peace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.