Let it no longer be said that not one ship of force, built by your hands, yet floats upon the ocean....

If then the war must be continued, go to the ocean.

If you are seriously contending for maritime rights, go to the theatre where alone those rights can be defended.

Thither every indication of your fortune points you.
There the united wishes and exertions of the nation will go with you.

Even our party divisions, acrimonious as they are, cease at the water's edge." Events soon forced the policy urged by Mr.Webster upon the administration, whose friends carried first a modification of the embargo, and before the close of the session introduced a bill for its total repeal.