or whether the manifest aggression on the part of France was the result of anything but the principles which characterize the French revolution?

In all this, if any aggression there were, any innovation upon preexisting rights, to which portion of the Union are they justly chargeable?

It must be rendered impossible for Turkey to repeat such outrages: the soil where her alien peoples dwell must be hers no more, and any Turkish aggression on that soil must be, ipso facto, an act of war against the European Power under the protection of whom such a province is placed.

Aggression from either side of Mason and Dixon's Line must be withstood.