THE ARMED SHIP AMERICA

WHEN WE SAILED FROM SALEM

[“IT WAS WITH DIFFICULTY THAT WE COULD MAKE OUR WAY TO THE HEAD OF THE DOCK.”]

THE

ARMED SHIP AMERICA

WHEN WE SAILED FROM SALEM

JAMES OTIS

AUTHOR OF
“THE CRUISE OF THE COMET,” “THE BOYS OF
FORT SCHUYLER,” “JENNY WREN’S
BOARDING-HOUSE,” ETC.

Illustrated by

J. W. KENNEDY

BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
1900

Copyright, 1900

By Dana Estes & Company

Colonial Press:
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

“In the United States every possible encouragement should be given to privateering in time of war with a commercial nation. We have tens of thousands of seamen that without it would be destitute of the means of support, and useless to their country. Our national ships are too few in number to give employment to one-twentieth part of them, or retaliate the acts of the enemy. By licensing private-armed vessels, the whole naval force of the nation is truly brought to bear on the foe; and while the contest lasts, that it may have the speedier termination, let every individual contribute his mite, in the best way he can, to distress and harass the enemy, and compel him to peace.”—From a letter written by Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1812.