Thoughts Upon the Conduct of Our Administration in Relation Both to Great Britain and France: More Especially in Reference to the Late Negotiation Concerning the Attack on Chesapeake (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Our numerous writers on the law of nations ought to recol lect, that if the United States are ever to take a lead in maria time affairs, they will require the use of the same principles now asserted by England, because the only mode in which a country with many seamen and a small regular army can at tack its enemies, will be by distressing their trade. And let it be added, that when they look to commercial [creel-dents as a rule for the present day, they ought to say, when they have found in history, that all the kingdoms of Europe have been united against one. A world then divided into two parts, with an impetuous chief at the head of one of the parts, is a new case, which refuses to be tried strictly by old rules. And it.

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