An Exposition of the Causes And Character of the War Between the United States a
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It act ed precisely towards France, as it acted towards Great Britain on similar occasions ; but France remained, for a time, as insensible to the claims of justice and honor, as Great Britain, each imi tating the other, in extravagance of pretensions? ami in obstinacy of purpose. When the American government received in telligence, that the orders of the llth of Novem ber, 1807, had been under the consideration of the British cabinet, and were actually prepared for promulgation, it^Jfts antici...pated that France, IB *See the Milan decree of the 17th of December? 1307, AMERICAN EXPOSE. 55 a zealous prosecution of the retaliatory warfare, would soon produce an act of, at least, equal in justice and hostility. The crisis existed, there- fare, at which the United States were compelled to decide either to withdraw their seafaring citi zens, and their commercial wealth from the o- eeaa, or to leave the interests of the mariner and the merchant exposed to certain destruction ; or to engage ia open and active war, for the protec tion and defence of those interests.
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