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On the recordDecember 10, 1812
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 give such examples of capacity and courage in defending their rights on that element.
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James Madison
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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