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5103. MARQUE, Letters of.—[further continued].
I have to-day consulted
the other gentlemen [of the Cabinet] on the
question whether letters of marque were to
be considered as written within our interdict.
We are unanimously of opinion they are
not. We consider them as essentially merchant
vessels; that commerce is their main
object, and arms merely incidental and defensive.—
To Albert Gallatin. Washington ed. v, 123.
Ford ed., ix, 104.
(W.
July. 1807)
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