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5003. MANUFACTURES, The Embargo and.—[further continued].

Nothing more salutary
for us has ever happened than the British obstructions
to our demands for their manufactures.
Restore free intercourse when they
will, their commerce with us will have totally
changed its form, and the articles we shall
in future want from them will not exceed
their own consumption of our produce.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vi, 36. Ford ed., ix, 333.
(M. Jan. 1812)