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2540. EMBARGO, Duration of.—

The embargo
may go on a certain time, perhaps through the year, without the loss of property
to our citizens, but only its remaining unemployed
on their hands. A time would come.


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however, when war would be preferable to a
continuance of the Embargo.—
To Charles Pinckney. Washington ed. v, 266.
(W. March. 1808)