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The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser
Washington, District Of Columbia
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In Castleton, authorities stopped teamsters transporting ashes for export, citing the embargo law, leading them to unload. Local federalists urged defiance of the law.
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The men therefore immediately unloaded their ashes, and prepared to return home peacefully: but the federalists of the neighborhood assembled, and endeavored to persuade them to proceed with their loads, in defiance of law.
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Castleton
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teamsters unloaded their ashes and prepared to return home peacefully, despite persuasion by federalists to defy the law.
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A number of teams laden with ashes, heading from the east side of the mountain to the lake, were stopped in Castleton. Authorities and gentlemen read the embargo law to the teamsters, convincing them of liability for aiding evasion, as the loads were for exportation. The teamsters unloaded and prepared to return, but local federalists assembled to persuade them to proceed in defiance of the law.