Correspondence, between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron, which led to the unfortunate meeting of the twenty-second of March

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You say, by absenting myself, _for years_, from the country, without leave from the government, I "subjected myself to be stricken from the rolls." I knew also, by the 10th arti...

SIR: Since my communication to you of the 31st ult. I have been informed by a gentleman entitled to the fullest credit, that you were not afloat till after the peace; consequent...