![]() ![]() The frontier press shrieked, "The scalping knife and tomahawk of the British savages is again devastating our frontiers."ĭuring this period of high tension and histrionics, one of the few voices of reason and restraint was John Randolf of Virginia, who left the Republican party to form a peace party called Quids. ![]() "The blood of our murdered heroes must be avenged," he bellowed, conveniently ignoring the fact that Harrison had provoked the attack on the Natives. Andrew Jackson joined in, the hullabuloo, by harkening back to Harrison's battle at Tippecanoe. The biggest booster for war, was the Kentuckian, Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who hammered away for hostilities, telling the members of Congress, "The conquest of Canada is in your power." He summoned up the spirit of 1776, declaring, "I cannot subscribe to British slavery upon the water." while hypocritically ignoring the fact that as many as 25% of his fellow Americans were slaves (By this time the population comprised 2.5 million, most of whom were of British descent and 6 hundred thousand blacks, nearly all from Africa.) He later claimed that the object of the war was to bring redress of injuries and Canada was the instrument by which redress would be obtained. The demands for war were strident and compelling. The history of one's country begins in the heart.Ĭongress was summoned a month early by President Madison in November 1811. Early Canada Historical Narratives - WAR OF 1812
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