[American Commerce]:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE MEMORIAL OF THE MERCHANTS & TRADERS OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. This petition, one of many from various merchant organizations, lobbies the President of the United States and Congress to defend American commerce with Europe in light of British violation of the "neutral rights," occasioned by the early years of the Napoleonic wars. Baltimore merchants were a hotbed of organization for various American subversive enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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