It has been a fixed principle with Congress to establish the rate of ransom of American captives with the Barbary States at as low a point as possible, that it may not be the interest of those States to go in quest of our citizens in preference to those of other countries.
Sumner emphasizes the importance of keeping ransom rates low to protect American citizens from being targeted by Barbary States.
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