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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], The railroad projected by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company in the Valley of Virginia. (search)
ter one term he was overwhelmed as by an earthquake. Her influence was not felt in the National Councils for many years afterwards. The whole policy of the General Government was in opposition to her wishes. Congress put the embargo and non-importation laws upon her, in spite of her remonstrances, protests and furious opposition of every kind. They ruined half her merchants, and left all her ships rotting at the wharves; but she did not succeed in shaking them off. She opposed the war of 1812, and extended her opposition to the verge of treason. Many think some of her sons actually committed treason. But she could not prevent the war from being declared, nor had she any influence in producing the peace. She opposed the tariffs of 1816 and 1824, but they passed, in spite of her, and in spite of the gigantic labors of Daniel Webster, the greatest man ever born on her soil. She succeeded in passing the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 (for her policy had changed); but they were so odious
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