The South also suffered enormously from the loss of commodity exports, although many of its staples could be stored, and cultivators held out hopes that their goods could be exported later in the year or in 1809. Despite the hardship, the South supported the embargo as a necessary burden. One South Carolinian noted that it is “difficult to imagine the pecuniary effect and the individual distress, occasioned by the embargo. . . . Yet, notwithstanding this distress, . . . there is everywhere an acquiescence in the measure proceeding from a confidence in the government.”96 The South still deeply
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Interesting to see that this trend of tolerating short term pain by trade wars continued to hold up in the same way in the South in the original trade war of 1807 as now with China in 2019
