92. William Bentley, The Diary of William Bentley, D.D: Pastor of East Church, Salem, Massachusetts (Gloucester, MA, 1962), 3: 313.
93. Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 613.
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95. Samuel E. Morison, Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783–1860 (Boston, 1921), 189; Douglas North, “The United States Balance of Payments, 1790–1860,” Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century, National Bureau of Economic Research, Studies in Income and Wealth, 24 (Princeton, 1960), 590–92.
96. Adam Rothman, Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (Cambridge, MA, 2005), 54.
97. Gallatin to TJ, 29 July 1808, in Adams, ed., Writings of Gallatin, 1: 399.
98. Jerry L. Mashaw, “Reluctant Nationalists: Federal Administration and Administrative Law in the Republican Era, 1801–1829,” Yale Law Journal, 116 (2007), 1655.
99. Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 639; TJ to Lehre, 8 Nov. 1808, in L and B, eds., Writings of Jefferson, 12: 191.
100. Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 652.
101. James H. Broussard, The Southern Federalists, 1800–1816 (Baton Rouge, 1978), 107.
102. Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 653, 654.
103. Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 639; Annals of Congress, 10th Congress, 2nd session (Dec. 1808), 19: 276.
104. At least one modern econometrician agrees that the British experienced more economic suffering than the Americans did and that the embargo failed because of the lack of sufficient political will in America. Jeffrey A. Frankel, “The 1807–1809 Embargo Against Great Britain,” Journal of Economic History, 42 (1982), 291–308. See also Perkins, Prologue to War, 205.
105. Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 644, 657; TJ to Monroe, 28 Jan. 1808, in Ford, ed., Writings of Jefferson, 9: 243; to Judge St. George Tucker, 25 Dec. 1808, in Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, 657.
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2. J.C.A. Stagg, Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830 (Princeton, 1983), 3; Henry Adams, History of the United States of America During the Administration of James Madison (1889–1891; New York, 1986), 452 .
3. On the differing views of historians over the causes of the war, see Louis M. Hacker, “Western Land Hunger and the war of 1812,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 10 (1924), 366–95; Julius W. Pratt, Expansionists of 1812 (New York, 1925); George R. Taylor, “Agrarian Discontent in the Mississippi Valley Preceding the War of 1812,” Journal of Political Economy, 39 (1931), 471–505; Warren H. Goodman, “The Origins of the War of 1812: A Survey of Changing Interpretations,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 28 (1941–1942), 171–86; Reginald Horsman, The Causes of the War of 1812 (Philadelphia, 1962); and Bradford Perkins, ed., The Causes of the War of 1812: National Honor or National Interest? (New York, 1962).
4. On the votes for the war, see David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 (Annapolis, 2004), 571–74; this Encyclopedia also has an extensive bibliography on the war. For some of the many articles dealing with the votes for the war, see Leland R. Johnson, “The Suspense Was Hell: The Senate Vote for War in 1812,” Indiana Magazine of History, 65 (1969), 247–67; Ronald I. Hatzenbuehler, “Party Unity and the Decision for War in the House of Representatives,” WMQ, 29 (1972), 367–90; Ronald I. Hatzenbuehler, “The War Hawks and the Question of Congressional Leadership in 1812,” Pacific Historical Review, 45 (1976), 1–22; Rudolph M. Bell, “Mr. Madison’s War and Long-Term Congressional Voting Behavior,” WMQ, 36 (1979), 373–95. On Pennsylvania, see Victor Sapio, Pennsylvania and the War of 1812 (Lexington, KY, 1970).
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11. Annals of Congress, 11th Congress, 2nd session (April 1810), 21: 1772; Perkins, Prologue to War, 241; Risjord, Old Republicans, 107.
12. James H. Broussard, The Southern Federalists, 1800–1816 (Baton Rouge, 1978), 136.
13. Stagg, Mr. Madison’s War, 61.
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16. Annals of Congress, 11th Congress, 2nd session (April 1810), 21: 1868.
17. Henry Adams, ed., Documents Relating to New England Federalism, 1800–1815 (Boston, 1877), 389.
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19. Roger H. Brown, The Republic in Peril: 1812 (New York, 1964), 15; Felix Grundy, Annals of Congress, 12th Congress, 1st session (May 1812), 24: 1407–8.
20. Richard Buel Jr., America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic (New York, 2005), 92–97, 133–35, 151–53, 242.
21. Wilson Cary Nicholas to TJ, 4 Feb. 1810, Papers of Jefferson: Retirement Ser., 2: 195; James Monroe to John Taylor, 13 June 1812, in Stanislaus Murray Hamilton, ed., The Writings of James Monroe (New York, 1901), 5: 206.
22. Annals of Congress, 12th Congress, 1st session (May 1812), 24: 1410.
23. Steven Watts, The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790–1820 (Baltimore, 1987), 63–107.
24. Niles’ Weekly Register, 1 (1811–1812), 252; Annals of Congress, 12th Congress, 1st session (Jan. 1812), 658; Watts, The Republic Reborn, 101.
25. Albert Gallatin to TJ, 10 March 1812, in Henry Adams, The Life of Henry Gallatin (New York, 1879), 455–56.
26. Risjord, Old Republicans, 109.
27. Risjord, Old Republicans, 102.
28. Annals of Congress, 11th Congress, 2nd session (April 1810) 21: 1864–1876, 1885.
29. Annals of Congress, 12th Congress, 1st session, (Feb. 1812), 23: 1027.
30. Annals of Congress, 12th Congress, 1st session, (Jan. 1812), 23: 824–833.
31. Risjord, Old Republicans, 127.
32. JM to TJ, 6 March 1812, Republic of Letters, 1688.
33. Stagg, Mr. Madison’s War, 160.
34. JM, War Message to Congress, 1 June 1812, Madison: Writings, 691.
35. Leonard D. White, The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History (New York, 1951), 216.
36. Jon Latimer, 1812: War with America (Cambridge, MA, 2007), 56.
37. John Sugden, Tecumseh: A Life (New York, 1997).
38. Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (Urbana, IL, 1989), 25.
39. Stagg, Mr. Madison’s War, 4.
40. Latimer, 1812, 42.
41. Walter R. Borneman, 1812: The War That Forged a Nation (New York, 2004), 57.
42. Hickey, War of 1812, 73.
43. Latimer, 1812, 71.
44. Latimer, 1812, 82–83.
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46. Borneman, 1812, 84; Harry L. Coles, The War of 1812 (Chicago, 1965), 81.
47. In 1820 the forty-one-year-old Decatur was killed in a duel by James Barron, the disgraced captain of the Chesapeake, who had surrendered to a British warship in 1807. Hickey, War of 1812, 96; Robert J. Allison, Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779–1820 (Amherst, MA, 2005), 115–19, 123–28, 200–211.
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59. Borneman, 1812, 151; Latimer, 1812, 221.
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68. JM to TJ, 17 Aug. 1812, to Richard Cutts, 8 Aug. 1812, Papers of Madison: Presidential Ser., 5: 165, 127.
69. On the clergy’s role during the war, not only in support of the Federalists but in support of the Republicans as well, see William Gribbon, The churches Militant: The War of 1812 and American Religion (New Haven, 1973).
70. For a severe indictment of the Federalists, see Buel, America on the Brink, 54–55, 117–18, 156–64, 169, 172, 192, 200, 209, 215, 220, 242.
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