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Strict as was the embargo which kept me outside the door, I burst in, only to be seized in a suffocating grip.
At that time, sir, they seemed to be in a state of incipient rebellion, because of the passage of the embargo act.
There can be no question now that the embargo was a serious blunder.
It was not until Sir Walter Scott arose with his wholesome manliness that the embargo against novels was removed.
Then Jonathan to pout began-he laid a strong embargo- "I'll drink no tea, by Jove!"
Being thus disappointed, the emperor laid an embargo on all vessels within his ports, so that he added about three thousand veterans of different nations to the garrison of his imperial city, which before consisted of only six thousand Greeks.
Embargoes, tariffs, quarantine, and all other laws, keep men from doing as they please.
A guard was placed on the factory at Surat, and an embargo laid on English trade.
This county had contributed more armed ships and men to the War of the Revolution than any other county in the Union, and was conspicuous for its enterprise and patriotism before the embargo, non-intercourse, and war had crushed its commerce.
Calhoun, in 1814, spoke in favor of the existing double duties as a protective measure, and also in favor of manufactures, during the debate on the repeal of the embargo, to define his position on this important question.
Instead, however, he found himself writing and signing a retraction to the trade embargo.
A stoppage or seizure (in other words, an embargo), must not be confounded with complete reprisals.
The local authorities, affected by this state of things, were little inclined to agree to export, and it actually came to local embargoes, one district prohibiting the transfer of its stocks to any other, exactly as we had experienced with ourselves.
As a result the government placed an embargo on a long list of articles including fuel, oils, grains, meats and fodder.
At the same time an embargo was laid by royal authority on all outward-bound vessels laden with corn.
The rural express greatly aids the country merchants in carrying more complete stocks of goods; in filling special orders promptly, and in avoiding temporary shortage of staples due to delayed shipments or embargoes on the railroad.
Against the proposed embargo Wilson set his face steadfastly.
Failing to budge Wilson on the proposal of an embargo, they launched themselves upon a more reckless course.
Boston with its environs and the interior counties were opposed to the embargo.
All pretense that the embargo was designed to protect American commerce had now to be abandoned.
The effects of the embargo upon English economy are even now a matter of conjecture.
The solemn embargo of his father recurred to him.
Chatham took the bold step of laying an embargo on the exportation of grain.
"Not at all," I exclaim, promptly laying an embargo on that iniquity.
Canning indeed saw in the embargo only a carrying out of his policy by the very machinery of the American Government.
Napoleon decreed, and embargoed, and sequestered, with little effect upon national sentiment outside of New England.
The vast number of evasions and smugglers which the embargo has created is surprising.
Madison have made a sort of embargo, or directed the stoppage of vessels
I cannot repeat his words, but he stated his object at once, and said that as this was a good opportunity to speak to me alone, he wished to ask me to remove what he called the utterly useless embargo which I had placed upon him in regard to Margery.
Jefferson, listened to the clamor of the merchants, and raised the embargo.
The non-intercourse was of the same general character as the embargo, but less offensive and injurious.
What would happen if the Dutch put an embargo upon the exportation of this drug?
The consequences of this embargo were irksome, and for a time threatened to become dangerous.
Such an embargo, General Carranza piously pointed out in florid terms, would compel peace.
And she got up and left the room, walking with a strange slowness, as if she put upon herself an embargo not to hasten.
Wars, embargoes, and confiscations might interrupt, but they could not seriously harm it.
The embargo and the war had crippled American commerce, but had stimulated manufactures.
The retreating but lingering edge of counter-trade, with its excess of snow for the season, caught the Iron Horse, with its train and passengers, upon the prairies of the west, and laid its embargoing hands upon them.
Few, if any, can have forgotten the thrilling accounts which reached us from that section, of the sufferings endured by those who were thus embargoed for days and nights, far from the comfortable habitations of their fellow men.
It was Boston commerce that was most sorely hurt by the embargo and non-importation policy of President Jefferson.
Jerry didn't know why she put that embargo on the Chinese woman's tongue.
The suit having been promptly terminated in my favor (General Barnes wins all his cases, even when they are not quite as good as mine was) I had to pay a few dollars for law expenses, and the embargo on the music and baggage was raised.
The Chamber of Commerce at Lyons, France, protests to the government against the embargo on American pork.
The apostle does not simply forbid injurious words, he puts an embargo on all that is not positively useful.
The American Government retaliated with an embargo, and began to make preparations for immediate hostilities.
Napoleon had placed an embargo on English commerce, and to the uttermost corner of Europe was this measure felt.
He has simply succumbed to the conflict between the habit of free trade in speech and the sudden embargo on one article.
When a person goes into a trance there is an embargo on the blood and the soul can leave the spark cells of the nerve substance of the brain and occupy a spiritual body or electrical vapor in the atmosphere or ether.
In making our railways, an embargo was laid on English rails, but English workmen were brought over.
She bore her part also in the sufferings occasioned by the embargo, and the other rash measures of a government which rushed headlong and wholly unprepared into a war with the most powerful nation on earth.
On the embargo alone some degree of unanimity could be attained.
Most fervently ought we to pray to be relieved from the various embarrassments of this said embargo.
If the embargo is taken off, I do not perceive yet any medium between absolute subjection or war.
I feel myself nearly as undetermined between enforcing the embargo or war as I was on our last meetings.
Once or twice we were compelled to put an embargo on the boats to hinder the enemy from getting across, but it was impossible to interfere thus with the river life of the province, except under great necessity and for a very short time.
We may guess what their conduct would be from the transports of passion into which they fell about the late embargo, laid to remove the most emergent necessities of state, admitting of no delay; and for which there were numerous precedents.
A proclamation has been issued by one of the belligerents since the passage of our embargo law, sir.
The same conclusion will result, if we consider our embargo in relation to the objects of this belligerent policy.
Our servile knee-crooking embargo says, "you shall, therefore, not trade."
Our surplus is touched by this torpedo, the embargo, and is thereby rendered useless.
If they could not export with safety, or profit, they would lay a voluntary embargo, ten thousand times better than a coercive one; the very necessity of coercion shows that our merchants would sail, were it not for the embargo.
I contend that the embargo is ruinous and oppressive.
If there be such a surplus, it only shows the beneficial operation of the system pursued anterior to the embargo.
The great authors of that instrument were well acquainted with the term embargo.
I am unwilling to involve this country in a war if I can avoid it, but I am still more unwilling to take off the embargo and embrace the proposition of my colleague: for I have no idea of a free trade being permitted to us.
Another objection with me to removing the embargo is, it will betray a timid, wavering, indecisive policy.
Canning, "it certainly comes in aid" of his grand design of destroying the commerce of the English, and trying to give that nation the consumption of the purse; and, until he is satisfied with that speculation, he will wish us to keep on the embargo.
It has been asked whether the embargo has not operated more on the United States than on the European Powers?
And they say, it is not the embargo, but the decrees and orders which are the true cause of all we suffer; that the embargo, so far from being the cause of, was advised as a remedy for the evils we endure.
She is not offended with our non-importation act, nor our embargo.
Now we are told that there is no danger of war, except it be because we have understood that Bonaparte has said there shall be no neutrals; and that, if we repeal the embargo, we may expect that he will make war on us.
If the embargo were raised as to a single spot, it was raised entirely to all effectual purposes.
I voted for the embargo as a precautionary and as a coercive measure.
If resistance was not our determination, I do not hesitate to say, that the embargo was unwise and unnecessary.
If the non-intercourse system was to prevail, he thought it made much more intelligible to the revenue officers by repealing the embargo laws, and enacting the non-intercourse as a new system throughout.
If the embargo produces a repeal of these edicts, we effect it without going to war.
Between them, it was agreed that there should be no recalling of the past, but the very embargo whetted his appetite.
After completing the Thirteenth course, they were employed in erecting a kind of stool or prop of masonry on the western side of the building, for which the stones had fortunately been landed previous to the embargo.
At this moment I have a worse embargo even than lameness on me.
To lay an embargo upon sound was impossible; to make an echo perform quarantine, ridiculous!
If Alexander removed the embargo and released the seamen, all hostile movements were to be suspended.
Of late, however, the restrictions have been removed, and the merchandise, on which an embargo had been laid, having been released by both sides, the old rules, regulating the commercial intercourse between the two countries, are once more in force.
It is to be observed also that the one construction puts it in the power of individuals to defeat the embargo in a great measure, while the other leaves a power to combine a due regard to the object of the law with the interests of individuals.
The embargo appears to be approved, even by the federalists of every quarter except yours.
It will show our people that while the embargo gives us double rations, it is starving our enemies.
I have been happy in my journey through the country to this place, to find the people unanimous in their preference of the embargo to war, and the great sacrifice they make, rendered a cheerful one from a sense of its necessity.
An embargo had, by the course of events, become the only peaceable card we had to play.
I consider it as a case of national comity, and coming within the views of the first section of the first embargo act.
It confirms the accounts we receive from others that the infractions of the embargo in Maine and Massachusetts are open.
Sargent, and Elisha Tracey, on the infractions of the embargo, and their ideas on the means of remedy.
This embargo law is certainly the most embarrassing one we have ever had to execute.
While the opposition to the late laws of embargo has in one quarter amounted almost to rebellion and treason, it is pleasing to know that all the rest of the nation has approved of the proceedings of the constituted authorities.
Where every attempt, the Collector says, has been made and still continues to be made to evade the embargo laws, the nature of the cargo is sufficient to refuse the permit, being wholly of provisions and lumber.
The edicts of the two belligerents, forbidding us to be seen on the ocean, we met by an embargo.
The belligerent edicts rendered our embargo necessary to call home our ships, our seamen, and property.
At last an act was passed to indemnify all who had been concerned in the embargo.
This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the embargo by the executive was authorized, it necessarily remains in the extent originally given to it.
In case of an embargo there will be found to be old clothes enough in everybody's garret to last till the millennium.
Mendoza, with his daughters, sought temporary exile, the embargo was soon taken off their property, and Tom Thorne afterwards sought, in the sweet smiles and flashing eye of Anita Mendoza, an exchange for the idle luxuries of cigars and champagne.
I argued that an embargo by the two countries mentioned would necessarily be followed by an embargo in all important countries at once, and in all other countries as soon as their surplus was exported.