Boycotting did originate in America, but it was started long
before the slavery troubles became annoying. The boycott
originated with Thomas Jefferson. It will be remembered that
by the embargo we boycotted every species of English goods;
we neither bought of that country nor sold to her. The ships
of New England were suffered to lie rotting at the wharves,
and American foreign trade was at a complete standstill. The
Hartford Convention was the result of that boycott, and the
lukewarmness of the East in the war of 1812 may be traced to it.
It was not a highly successful boycott, but it occupied a pretty
big place in history.--Detroit _Evening Journal_.
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=Brag=--See PRETENSE.