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3874. IMPRESSMENT, Treaty of Peace and.—

No provision being made[in the treaty
of peace] against the impressment of our seamen,
it is in fact but an armistice, to be
terminated by the first act of impressment
committed on an American citizen.—
To W. H. Crawford. Washington ed. vi, 420. Ford ed., ix, 504.
(M. 1815)