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Subtitle: And Letters-Of-Marque, During Our War With England in the Years 1812, '13, and '14. Interspersed With Several Naval Battles Between American and British Ships-Of-War General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: The author Subjects: Privateering United States Letters of marque Fiction / Classics History / General History / Military / United States History / Military / Naval History / United States / 19th Century Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, OF THE 1ST OF JUNE, 1812 BEPOET -- That after the experience which the United States have had of the great injustice of the British government towards them, exemplified by so many acts of violence and oppression, it will be more difficult to justify to the impartial world their patient forbearance, than the measures to which it has become necessary to resort, to avenge the wrongs, and vindicate the rights and honor of the nation. Your committee are happy to observe, on a dispassionate view of the conduct of the United States, that they see in it no cause for censure. If a long forbearance under injuries ought ever to be considered a virtue in any nation, it is one which peculiarly becomes the United States. No people ever had stronger motives to cherish peace: none have ever cherished it with greater sincerity and zeal. But the period has now arrived, when the United States must support their character and station among the nations of the earth, or submit to the most shameful degradation. Forbearance has ceased to be a virtue. War...

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