1To James Madison from Ralph Schenck, 24 August 1815 (Madison Papers)
Our Nation reposes in the arms of peace. A Glorious war for the Vindication of National rights nay, for the preservation of National Independence, with a powerful and haughty foe who arrowgated to himself the indisputed supremacy of the Ocean, whose forces in Spain, had then but lately successfully coped with the Veteran legions of France, and whose pretentions of every kind were high and...