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SCI LIBRARY

The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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FOREIGN RELATIONS / EMBARGO



Complaints multiply upon us of evasions of the embargo laws, by fraud and force. These come from Newport, Portland, Machias, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, etc., etc. As I do consider the severe enforcement of the embargo to be of an importance, not to be measured by money, for our future government as well as present objects, I think it will be advisable that during this summer all the gunboats, actually manned and in commission, should be distributed through as many ports and bays as may be necessary to assist the embargo.

to Jacob Crowninsheld (Secretary of the Navy), 16 July 1808