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The friend of peace : containing a special interview between the President of the United States and Omar, an officer dismissed for dueling; six letters from Omar to the President; with a review of the power assumed by rulers over the laws of God and the lives of me, in making war, and Omar's solitary reflections / the whole reported by Philo Pacificus [i.e., Noah Worcester]. To which is prefixed, A solemn review of the custom of war, showing that war is the effect of popular delusion and proposing a remedy.
TITLE:
The friend of peace : containing a special interview between the President of the United States and Omar, an officer dismissed for dueling; six letters from Omar to the President; with a review of the power assumed by rulers over the laws of God and the lives of me, in making war, and Omar's solitary reflections / the whole reported by Philo Pacificus [i.e., Noah Worcester]. To which is prefixed, A solemn review of the custom of war, showing that war is the effect of popular delusion and proposing a remedy.
Alternate Title:
Solemn review of the custom of war
Monument of a beneficent mission from Boston to St. John's
Publication Date:
1816
Publication Information:
Baltimore : published by Samuel Jefferis,
Physical Description:
Various pagination.
Geographic Term:
Contents:
solemn review of the custom of war -- special interview beteen the President of the United States and Omar, an officer dismissed for dueling -- Six letters from Omar to the President -- Review of the arguments of Lord Kames in favor of war -- horrors of Napoleon's campaign in Russia -- Reasons for believing that efforts for the abolition of war will not be in vain -- Review of military martyrdom -- Peace societies compared with other benevolent institutions -- Eirenikos to Philo Pacificus -- respectful address to the Masonic Fraternity -- Messiah and Mahomet -- Review of Concessions by Frederic II, King of Prussia -- Address of the Honourable Thomas Daves tot the Massachusetts Peace Society, at their Second Anniversary, December 25, 1817. -- Example of a just and necessary war -- Monument of a beneficent mission from Boston to St. John's.
Language:
English
