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- GLC#
- GLC09135
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- August 1807
- Author/Creator
- Monroe, James, 1758-1831
- Title
- [Fragment]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. :
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Unsigned fragment. "It would be dishonourable, and might be ruinous if without a redress of our wrongs war did not promptly follow the expiration of the embargo. No other alternative is left to our choice. Every other expedient has been tried and failed...We cannot retrace our steps and abandon, perhaps forever, our most important rights...It would be folly in the extreme to attempt to disguise from ourselves the true character of the present embargo. It is not an engine to be wielded in negotiation. From the privations to which it may expose the belligerents nothing ought to be expected. If relied on in that sense only, it is known that it would fail. It is a measure of precaution, intended principally as a warning to our own people of the nature of the crisis which has arrived, & of the consequences into which it may lead..."
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