James Madison actually said...

His barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enriched and embellished...

The American people will face it with the undaunted spirit which in their revolutionary struggle defeated his unrighteous projects.

In offering their blood they give the surest pledge that no other tribute will be withheld.

We have seen them everywhere paying their taxes, direct and indirect, with the greatest promptness and alacrity.