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force if necessary, 1 and some among them 

 would have welcomed a dissolution of the 

 Union. Among the common people, how- 

 ever, there was no real feeling of disloyalty. 

 They loved the Union, but, Federalist and 

 Democrat alike, they were disgusted with 

 the embargo and its author. They knew, 

 if Jefferson did not, that the embargo was 

 a failure, and they proposed to stand it no 

 longer. They had refused to submit to for- 

 eign tyranny, they had no intention to yield 

 to domestic. Either naturally or by de- 

 sign, their course of resistance was closely 

 modelled after Revolutionary days. Bath, 

 Maine, was the first town to throw down 



money to each member of the crew, from vessels seized 

 by her for violating the embargo, will be two thousand 

 dollars." Salem Gazette, Nov. 8, 1808. 



"The tories of Boston openly threaten insurrection 

 if their importation of flour is stopped. The next post 

 will stop it. I fear your Governor [Sullivan] is not up to 

 the tone of these paracides, and I hope on the first symp- 

 tom of an open opposition of the law by force, you will 

 fly to the scene and aid in suppressing any commotion." 

 Part of letter from Jefferson to Gen. Dearborn, 

 Works, vol. vi, p. 334. 



