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2552. EMBARGO, Evasions of.—[further continued].

The belligerent edicts
rendered our Embargo necessary to call home
our ships, our seamen and property. We expected
some effect too from the coercion of
interest. Some it has had; but much less on
account of evasions, and domestic opposition
to it.—
To General Armstrong. Washington ed. v, 433.
(W. March. 1809)