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If we needed any more proof that Great Britain's involvement in our affairs is an act of avarice, we have no need to look further than this so-called treaty. Their blockade is nothing but a toll booth, gentlemen. They mean to turn our pain and suffering into some hair-brained scheme to fatten their own pockets. They talk about peace, they talk about rights and sovereignty, but make no mistake that all they care about is coin. Who cares about things like freedom or human decency when there is money to make? Like the Book has said 'it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God,' and so it seems that it will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it will be for a ship filled with wheat to make it out of a New York harbor. Very well. While they starve in London, that wheat will rot while it sits in that New York harbor. Let us hope that when they meet their maker, those rich men will be able to shove that camel through the needle's eyes. 

[i]-- Representative Thaddues Stevens on the House floor.[/i]