The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis Federalist 1765-1848, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis Federalist 1765-1848, Vol. 2 of 2 When the Tenth Congress assembled for its winter session, on November 7, 1808, no sensible man in the United States doubted that the embargo was a failure. It had destroyed the commerce and impoverished the sailors and shipowners it was supposed to protect; as an instrument of coercion it had proved futile. Napoleon applauded and even presumed to enforce the embargo by his insolent Bayonne Decree, ordering the confiscation of all American vessels that entered his ports. In England, the embargo distressed the manufacturers and their laborers, but protected from American competition the shipping interests, which were closer to the ear of government. George Canning, with consummate irony, stated in a diplomatic note that "His majesty... would gladly have facilitated its removal as a measure of inconvenient restriction upon the American people." The only practical result so far had been a revival of Federalist ascendancy over New England. Furthermore, the embargo could not be enforced in Massachusetts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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