An Inquiry Into the Past and Present Relations of France and the United States of America (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Past and Present Relations of France and the United States of AmericaThis is, in fact, the very att1tucle of humiliation and disgrace m which France may wish to place us. She knows well that she has very little or no property to reclaim from us. 'it is not then to obtain a restitution of anyactual losses sustained by the operation of our N ou-intercourse Law, . That she will condescend to treat with us upon the principles of re prisal. She calls, or may call, ~ for the mer'eformality of a rest1tution, ' with no other View but to obtain reparation for her injured honbur. She means to extort from us, in order to glut her~own pride and to consummate our debasement, an implied adm1ss1on that our Non-intercourse Law was an raggression on her honour, and her measure of sequestrat1on but afair and justifiable retaliat1on. We have nothing to restore to her, and must therefore be sensible, that, she can have no other meaning in demanding from us the formality of a restitution.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.