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2675. ENGLAND, Piratical policy of.—[further continued] .

The principle that force
is right, is become the principle of the nation
itself. They would not permit an honest
minister, were accident to bring such an one
into power, to relax their system of lawless
piracy.—
To Cæsar A. Rodney. Washington ed. v, 501. Ford ed., ix, 272.
(M. 1810)