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3027. FLAG, Reception of.—[continued].

In answering [Minister
Erskine's] last [letter], should he not be reminded
how strange it is he should consider
as a hostility our refusing to receive but under
a flag, persons from vessels remaining
and acting in our waters in defiance of the
authority of the country?—
To James Madison. Washington ed. v, 197. Ford ed., ix, 141.
(M. Sep. 1807)