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Although the citizens were by no means martially disposed, the authorities deemed it necessary to issue proclamations to the people, inculcatory of the axiom, "Tranquillity is the first duty of the citizen."

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George