On the record
No such atonement as was due for the public wrong done to the United States by this invasion of her territory, so wholly irreconcilable with her rights as an independent power, has yet been made.
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Tyler calls attention to the lack of accountability for the invasion of U.S. territory, stressing the importance of national rights.
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