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4999. MANUFACTURES, The Embargo and.—[further continued].

As a countervail to
our short-lived sacrifices [by the Embargo],
when these shall no longer be felt, we shall
permanently retain the benefit they have
prompted, of fabricating for our own use the
materials of our own growth, heretofore
carried to the work-houses of Europe, to be
wrought and returned to us.—
R. to A. Baltimore Tammany Society. Washington ed. viii, 170.
(1809)