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John Quincy Adams: “The severe shock so extensively sustained by the commercial and manufacturing interests in Great Britain has not been…”

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The severe shock so extensively sustained by the commercial and manufacturing interests in Great Britain has not been without a perceptible recoil upon ourselves.
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John Quincy Adams
Democratic Republican · Massachusetts

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Adams points out the negative impact of economic shocks in Great Britain on the United States' own commercial and manufacturing interests.

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