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2998. FILIBUSTERISM, Restraining.—

That individuals should undertake to wage
private war, independently of the authority of
their country, cannot be permitted in a well
ordered society. Its tendency to produce aggression
on the laws and rights of other
nations, and to endanger the peace of our own
is so obvious, that I doubt not you will adopt
measures for restraining it effectually in
future.—
Fourth Annual Message. Washington ed. viii, 34. Ford ed., viii, 326.
(1804)