Party Leaders Sketches of Thomas Jefferson Alexr Hamilton Andrew Jackson H
Party Leaders Sketches of Thomas Jefferson Alexr Hamilton Andrew Jackson H
Baldwin, Joseph G. (Joseph Glover), 1815-1864
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What specific grant would have been rendered nugatory without it as a means of execution ? The effects of the measure upon the country were disastrous to the last degree. Well did Randolph say, " It was the Iliad of our woes. " It ravaged and desolated like the march of an invading army. We punished our- selves, but England was not starved into concession. With her navy sweeping the face of the sea, and gather- ing products from every clime, and tribute from every shore, it were as idle to expe...ct to starve her by withholding our breadstuffs, as to attempt to bale out the ocean with a tin- cup. After trying it for a year or more, it was abandoned. The Legislature of Massachusetts, taking example from Virginia, declared it unconstitutional, and, the fiercest op- position to it having been aroused, threatened the integrity of the Union. Jefferson thought that it would have an- JEFFERSON OPPOSES A NAVY. 201 swered its purpose, if we could only have waited a little longer ! Randolph, with all his power and eloquence, opposed this measure.
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