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2536. EMBARGO, Benefits of.—[further continued] .

The edicts of the two belligerents, forbidding us to be seen on the
ocean, we met by an Embargo. This gave us
time to call home our seamen, ships and property,
to levy men and put our seaports into a
certain state of defence.—
To Dupont de Nemours. Washington ed. v, 432.
(W. March. 1809)