James Madison actually said...

examples which ought to impress on the enemy, however brave and powerful, preference of justice and peace to hostility against a country who...

A nation feeling what it owes to itself and to its citizens could never abandon to arbitrary violence on the ocean a class of them which giv...

Too much praise can not be bestowed on that officer and his companions on board for the consummate skill and conspicuous valor by which this...

Considering it as expedient, under existing circumstances and prospects, that a general embargo be laid on all vessels now in port, or herea...