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bonds not to engage in the trade or enter 

 the ports of either nation. In case, however, 

 either France or England should withdraw 

 their decrees or orders in council in such 

 form as to satisfy the President of the 

 United States, then he, by proclamation, 

 might open trade with the one or both so 

 doing. 



Mr. Jefferson retired from office before 

 the repeal of the embargo actually went 

 into effect, carrying with him as a valedic- 

 tory the remark of John Randolph, that, 

 "Never has there been an administration 

 which went out of office and left the nation 

 in a state so deplorable and calamitous as 

 this." And now, the Federalists, with the 

 taste of the embargo still bitter, and the 

 flavor of the Non-intercourse Bill not sat- 

 isfying, drank the toast, "Mr. Madison, 

 may he immediately after receiving the 

 mantle of Mr. Jefferson, be struck with a 

 perpetual embargo, hauled up in a dry dock 

 and dis-mantled." 



Soon after the passage of the Non-inter- 



