"Ingenuity could hardly have invented a system less advantageous for the government and people who maintained it. The government lost its revenue, the shipping lost much of its freight, the people paid double prices on imports and received half prices for their produce: industry was checked, speculation and fraud stimulated." 1
1 History of the United States 1809-17, Henry Adams, Chapter: Legislative Impotence 1809-1810
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