That portion of trade would go to each country, for which the circumstances of each were calculated.

If Great Britain purchased more American produce than she consumed, it was because, all circumstances considered, it was the interest of America to sell her more than she consumed.

While this interest continued, no mischief could result from the fact; when the cause should cease, the effect would cease also, without the intervention of the legislature.
It was very improbable that the resolutions under consideration would effect their other avowed object, a repeal of the British navigation act.
The season, it was said, was peculiarly unfavourable to such experiments.

The internal convulsions of France had laid her manufactures in ruins.

She was not in a condition to supply her own wants, much less those of the United States.