1To James Madison from the Republican Citizens of Milledgeville, 13 June 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...our commerce, as indicative of an indisposition on her part to perform that duty which was stipulated in her intercourse with the United States by her accredited Minister. And that unless a speedy accommodation of the controversy between the United States and France should take place, that letters of Marque and Reprisal ought to be granted against her cruisers.