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2557. EMBARGO, Foreign trade and.—

The Embargo laws will have hastened the day
when an equilibrium between the occupations
of agriculture, manufactures and commerce,
shall simplify our foreign concerns to the exchange
only of that surplus which we cannot
consume for those articles of reasonable comfort,
or convenience, which we cannot produce.—
R. to A. Pennsylvania Citizens. Washington ed. viii, 163.
(1809)