LANGDON CHEVES

Navies have been and always will be engines of power, employed in projects of ambition and war.

I would rather see the objects of the war fail,—I would rather see the seamen of the country …. and our commerce swept away …, than see the long arm of the Treasury indirectly thrust into the pocket of the citizen through the penal law.

… a dangerous, unexampled, desperate resort.

… a dangerous, unexampled, desperate resort.

I would rather see the objects of the war fail,—I would rather see the seamen of the country …. and our commerce swept away …, than see the long arm of the Treasury indirectly thrust into the pocket of the citizen through the penal law.

Navies have been and always will be engines of power, employed in projects of ambition and war.