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3025. FLAG, Usurpation of.—[further continued].

It is impossible to detest
more than I do the fraudulent and injurious
practice of covering foreign vessels and cargoes
under the American flag; and I sincerely
wish a systematic and severe course of punishment
could be established.—
To Mr. Gallatin. Washington ed. v, 223. Ford ed., x, 170.
(W. 1807)