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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SPEECH ON THE FIRST RESOLUTION REPORTED IJY THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS. Nov. 28, 1808. SPEECH ON THE FIRST RESOLUTION REPORTED BY THE (JOMMITTEB ON FOHKION RELATIONS. Nov. 28, 1808. TnB necessity of some more important protection of the sen- board cities than that provided by Mr. Jefferson's government grew more and more apparent, as the relations of the United Slates with France and England became more and more complicated. To resent the injury done to American commerce by the new rulings of Lord Stowell in the Court of Admiralty, and the insult to the American ilag in the right claimed and exercised by Kngland of senruhing our merchant-ships for English sailors and impressing them wherever found, the lav known us the Non-importation Act had been passed shortly before the speech of April 14th, 1806, was delivered. By this act the importation from Great Britain, or any of her dependencies, of all the articles of her commerce with the United States was forbidden. As this measure did not have the desired effect of bringing England to her senses, Mr. Jefferson prepared to push still further his attempt to conquer her by n war of commercial restrictions. The governing party had most exaggerated notions of the di'pendenco of England upon the commerce of America, and believed that she would submit to any terms rather than lose it. In retaliation for the Berlin decree of Bonaparte, declaring the British Islands in a state of blockade and forbidding all neutral intercourse with them, the British government in November, 1807, issued the famous Orders in Council, forbidding any commercial intercourse with France or her allies,excepting through some port of Great Britain or Ireland. All ships engaged in this trade were to touch nt one of the ports of the United Kin...
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