James Madison actually said...

I recommend to the consideration of Congress the expediency of an immediate and effectual prohibition of exports limited to a convenient day...

keeping in view also the insidious discrimination between the different ports of the United States;

There being sufficient ground to infer that it is the purpose of the enemy to combine with the blockade of our ports special licenses to neu...

if not counteracted, will have the effect of diminishing very materially the pressure of the war on the enemy, and encouraging a perseveranc...