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7424. RETALIATION, A duty.—

Retaliation
is a duty we owe to those engaged in
the cause of their country, to assure them that
if any unlucky circumstance, baffling the efforts
of their bravery, shall put them in the
power of their enemies, we will use the pledges
in our hands to warrant their lives from sacrifice.—
Report to Congress. Ford ed., i, 495.
(1775)