Do we hear of indignity or outrage in any quarter?
of merchants robbed in foreign ports? of vessels searched on the high
seas? of American citizens impressed into foreign service? of the
national flag insulted anywhere? On the contrary, we see former
wrongs repaired; no new ones inflicted. France pays twenty-five
millions of francs for spoliations committed thirty years ago; Naples
pays two millions one hundred thousand ducats for wrongs of the
same date; Denmark pays six hundred and fifty thousand rix-dollars
for wrongs done a quarter of a century ago; Spain engages to pay
twelve millions of reals vellon for injuries of fifteen years' date; and
Portugal, the last in the list of former aggressors, admits her liability
and only waits the adjustment of details to close her account by
adequate indemnity. So far from war, insult, contempt, and spoliation
from abroad, this denounced administration has been the season of
peace and goodwill and the auspicious era of universal reparation. So
far from suffering injury at the hands of foreign powers, our merchants
have received indemnities for all former injuries.
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