2584. EMBARGO, Submission, or War?—
The questions of submission, of war, or Embargo,
are now before our country as unembarrassed
as at first. Submission and tribute, if
they be our choice, will be no baser now than
at the date of the Embargo. But if, as I trust,
that idea be spurned, we may now decide on
the other alternatives of war and Embargo,
with the advantage of possessing all the means
which have been rescued from the grasp of
capture.—
R. to A. Connecticut Republicans. Washington ed. viii, 141.
(Nov. 1808)
