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Embargo by express. : Boston, Friday evening, April 3, 1812.--6 o'clock. The following letter is this moment handed me by express. / Harrison G. Otis.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 25337. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lloyd, James, 1769-1831.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 25337.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress--(12th, 1st session : 1811-1812). House.
- United States.
- United States. Congress.
- Embargo.
- United States--Politics and government--1812-1815.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 21 x 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1812]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "Mr. Calhoun, of South-Carolina, a member of the Committee of Foreign Relations has this moment informed Mr. Quincy, that the Committee of Foreign Relations have decided to lay a proposition for an embargo on the table of the House of Representatives to-morrow. ... James Lloyd, Josiah Quincy, James Emott. Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 1812, 2 o'clk, P.M. The Honorable H.G. Otis, Boston."
- The second line of the letter ends with the words "that the." In other editions this line ends "that the Com-" or "informed Mr."
- Printed area measures 15.5 x 13.4 cm.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 25337).
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- Restricted for use by site license.
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