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And when at last the commander of the Tripolitan, a venerable old man with a flowing beard, appeared in the waist of the ship, sorely wounded, and, bowing submissively, cast the colors of his vessel into the sea, then the fire of the Enterprise ceased, although the usages of war would have justified the Americans in exterminating their treacherous foe.But the matter was taken up by the United States minister to Spain, who never permitted it to rest until the fullest apology was blue cross tennessee made by Spain for the indignities to which the American naval officers had been subjected.So it is.In the streets of Algiers worked American slaves, chained together, and wearing iron collars upon their blue cross tennessee necks.While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre rigged ship flying the Tripolitan colors.Immediately the corsairs swarmed out of the Mediterranean Sea, and swooped blue cross tennessee down upon the American merchantmen.And having thrown this bombshell into the enemy's camp, Decatur returned to his ship.The same tendency of the American mind to disregard the blue cross tennessee adage, In time of peace, prepare for war, is observable to day.To starve her prisoners, should not be part of a great nation's policy.Closer inspection showed her to be a notorious corsair, well known for the constant and merciless blue cross tennessee warfare she waged upon American merchantmen.Never, was the cool response and the interview ended.