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Excerpt from Debate in the House of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans, on a Memorial to Congress: Respecting the Illegal Conduct of General Wilkinson
Upon the illegality of this embargo, we need not offer a single argument. The legislative power of cong1es alone could legally entorce a measure of this nature. Upon its expediency; many considerations occur. Gen Wilkinson Was the only witness of mr. Burr's treasonable designs he stated his plan to embrace the attack of this place, the plunder of its wealth and Seizure of its shipping and in order to' counteract these projects, it was determined to keep all the shipping in the harbor, to deprive them, by enlist ing their seamen, of all hopes of es cape, to detain the treasures of the banks, and by withdrawin g all the outg posts, and collecting the military orce at new-orleans, to leave all the territory open to the invasion of the enemy.
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