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flict which might have changed the whole 

 history of the American Republic. 



Outside of New England the feeling was 

 much the same though there was no such 

 organized opposition. At St. Albans, Ver- 

 mont, resolutions were adopted, one of 

 which reads, "Any citizen who shall ex- 

 press approbation of the present measures 

 of the Federal Government relative to the 

 embargo, is considered an enemy to our 

 common country." The Augusta County, 

 Virginia, freeholders resolved, "If the em- 

 bargo is not removed, it will produce the 

 downfall of the community, bankruptcy, 

 and civil war." The "Baltimore Sun" 

 boldly stated that the civil compact had 

 been violated and dissolved, and, it goes on, 

 "A law which is to be enforced at the point 

 of the bayonet will bring on a struggle, 

 which may terminate in the overthrow of 

 the Government." 



Personal suffering, too, by 1809, in the 



been massacred." New York Evening Post, Jan. 27, 

 1809. 



