. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. rteen months the embargoact was repealed/1 Meanwhile, in November of 1808, the Britishgovernment outdid all previous proceedings by issuing an order incouncil/ prohibiting all trade with France and her allies. And Napo-leon, not to be outdone, issued his famous Milan decree, forbiddingall commerce with England and her colonies. Between these outra-geous acts of foreign nations and the American embargo, the com-merce of the United States was well-nigh crushed out of existence. While the country wa
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. rteen months the embargoact was repealed/1 Meanwhile, in November of 1808, the Britishgovernment outdid all previous proceedings by issuing an order incouncil/ prohibiting all trade with France and her allies. And Napo-leon, not to be outdone, issued his famous Milan decree, forbiddingall commerce with England and her colonies. Between these outra-geous acts of foreign nations and the American embargo, the com-merce of the United States was well-nigh crushed out of existence. While the country was distracted with these troubles Robert Ful-ton was building the first steamboat. This event exercised a vast influence on the fu-ture development ofthe nation. It wasof the first impor-tance to the peopleof the inland Statesthat their great riv-ers should be enliv-ened with rapid and regular , without the ap-plication of steam,was impossible; andthis Fulton success-fully , the steam-boat was the harbin-ger of a new era incivilization. Fultonwas an Irishman by. ROBERT FULTON. descent and a Penn-sylvanian by birth. His education was meagre and imperfect. Inhis boyhood he became a painter of miniatures at Philadelphia. Hisfriends sent him to London to receive instruction from BenjaminWest; but his tastes led him to the useful rather than to the finearts. From London he went to Paris, where he became acquaintedwith Chancellor Livingston; and there he conceived the project ofapplying steam to the purposes of navigation. Returning to NewYork, he began the construction of a steamboat in East River. When * The embargo act was the subject of much ridicule. The opponents of the measurespelling the word backward, called it the 0 Orab me act. JEFFERSONS ADMINISTRATION. 387 the ungainly craft was completed and brought around to the Jersey-side of the city; Fulton invited his friends to go on board and enjoya trip to Albany. It was the 2d of September, 1807
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