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8964. WAR OF 1812, Victory and defeat.—

Perhaps this Russian mediation May
cut short the history of the present war, and
leave to us the laurels of the sea, while our
enemies are bedecked with those of the land.


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This would be the reverse of what has been expected,
and perhaps of what was to be wished.—
To William Duane. Washington ed. vi, 110.
(M. April. 1813)