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7292. REPRISAL, Retaliation by.—

The
determination to take all our vessels bound to
any other than her ports, amounting to all
the war she can make (for we fear no invasion ),
it would be folly in us to let that
war be all on one side only, and to make no
effort towards indemnification and retaliation
by reprisal.—
To Clement Caine. Washington ed. vi, 14. Ford ed., ix, 330.
(M. Sep. 1811)