Albert Beveridge: “Is it a substantive and independent right wantonly, and in the pride of power, to vex and harass neutral commerce…”

In argument and reasoning he was the equal if not the superior of Madison himself; and his grim personality made the meek one of Madison seem tender in comparison.

As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.

Would they abandon their posts as judges, and the interests of millions committed to them, to serve the purposes of a single individual?

Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.