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2579. EMBARGO, Repeal.—[further continued].

We have taken off the
Embargo, except as to France and England and
their territories, because fifty millions of exports,
annually sacrificed, are the treble of what
war would cost us: besides, that by war we
should take something, and lose less than at
present.—
To Dupont de Nemours. Washington ed. v, 432.
(W. March 2, 1809)