Its effects would be felt in the shipping business, by the merchants, and above all by the manufacturer.
Calculations were offered, by comparing the total amount of British exports with those to the United States, to prove, that three hundred thousand British manufacturers would be suddenly thrown out of employment, by withdrawing the trade carried on between America and that country.

In the complication of distress to which such a measure would reduce them, they would consider the United States as a natural asylum from wretchedness.

But whether they remained in discontent at home, or sought their fortune abroad, the evil would be considered and felt by the British government as equally great, and they would surely beware of taking any step that might provoke it.
On the advantages of America in such a contest with a populous and manufacturing country, they dwelt with peculiar earnestness.

She produced all the necessaries of life within herself, and could dispense with the articles received from others.

But Great Britain, not producing them in sufficient abundance, was dependent on the United States for the supply of her most essential wants.