2566. EMBARGO, Necessity for.—[further continued] .
Assailed in our essential
rights by two of the most powerful nations on
the globe, we have remonstrated, negotiated,
and at length retired to the last stand, in the
hope of peaceably preserving our rights. In this
extremity I have entire confidence that no part
of the people in any section of the Union, will
desert the banners of their country, and cooperate
with the enemies who are threatening
its existence.—
R. to A. Massachusetts Militia. Washington ed. viii, 151.
(1809)
