Excerpt from Mr. Hillhouse's Speech in the Senate, December 21, on the Bill Making Further Provision for Enforcing the Embargo Has the embargo whichgwas professed to be laid for the bene Volent purpose of preserving our vessels, our seamen and our mer chandize, become so unpopular, so odious, that it cannot be execu ted through the mild medium of Courts of Justice, but that the country must be put under martial law, and the bayonet 'of the soldier substituted tn the place of the Tribunal of Justice 3 It so, it ought to Be ...
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Excerpt from Mr. Hillhouse's Speech in the Senate, December 21, on the Bill Making Further Provision for Enforcing the Embargo Has the embargo whichgwas professed to be laid for the bene Volent purpose of preserving our vessels, our seamen and our mer chandize, become so unpopular, so odious, that it cannot be execu ted through the mild medium of Courts of Justice, but that the country must be put under martial law, and the bayonet 'of the soldier substituted tn the place of the Tribunal of Justice 3 It so, it ought to Be repealed. In a government like ours, resting wholly on the popular voice, no law ought to be continued that will require a milio tary execution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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