We behold our seafaring citizens still the daily victims of lawless violence, committed on the great common and highway of natio
ns, even within sight of the country which owes them protection. We behold our vessels, freighted with the products of our soil and industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confiscated by prize courts no longer the organs of public law but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets, President James Madison's War Message to Congress, June 1, 1812
Our moderation and conciliation have had no other effect than to encourage perseverance and to enlarge pretensions. We behold our seafaring citizens still the daily victims of lawless violence, committed on the great common and highway of nations, even within sight of the country which owes them protection.
Because of the ”domino affect’‘ since Germany is somewhat near Russia and eastern Europe, Germany spread their ideology of communism and it spread unto Russia
