<P> Meanwhile, Jefferson requested authorization from Congress to raise 30,000 troops from the current standing army of 2,800 . Congress refused . With their harbors for the most part unusable in the winter anyway, New England and the north ports of the mid-Atlantic states had paid little notice to the previous embargo acts . That was to change with the spring thaw, and the passing of yet another embargo act . </P> <P> With the coming of the spring, the effect of the previous acts were immediately felt throughout the coastal states, especially in New England . An economic downturn turned into a depression and caused increasing unemployment . Protests occurred up and down the eastern coast . Most merchants and shippers simply ignored the laws . On the Canada--US border, especially in upstate New York and Vermont, the embargo laws were openly flouted . Federal officials believed parts of Maine, such as Passamaquoddy Bay on the border with British - held New Brunswick, were in open rebellion . By March, an increasingly frustrated Jefferson was resolved to enforce the embargo to the letter . </P> <P> On March 12, 1808, Congress passed and Jefferson signed into law yet another supplement to the Embargo Act . This supplement prohibited, for the first time, all exports of any goods, whether by land or by sea . Violators were subject to a fine of US $10,000, plus forfeiture of goods, per offense . It granted the President broad discretionary authority to enforce, deny, or grant exceptions to the embargo . Port authorities were authorized to seize cargoes without a warrant and to try any shipper or merchant who was thought to have merely contemplated violating the embargo . </P> <P> Despite the added penalties, citizens and shippers openly ignored the embargo . Protests continued to grow; and so it was that the Jefferson administration requested and Congress rendered yet another embargo act . </P>

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