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Excerpt from American Principles: A Review of Works of Fisher Ames
An American°1mmt had even talked ofthe impressment ofibrittsh'subjetts from American merchant vessels, as being agreeable to a Riou'g claimed and ex ercised for ages, and had undertaken to justify the 'brit|sh king's proclamation of October 16, 1807, under the pretence that it was merely an assertion of the nation's right to the service of its subjects in time of war. The ordersin coun cil too had been defended, as merel y retaliatory upon France, and although some straining had been manifested at the name of mbm, yet it'was found that the same thing might be swallowed with perfect ease under the name of 'a tram!
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