Letters Developing the Character And Views of the Hartford Convention
Letters Developing the Character And Views of the Hartford Convention
Harrison Gray Otis
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They denominate the war ** unnecessary and impolitic, " ana say, "as friends to union, we invoke you to arrest the progi-ess of a system tending to its speedy and awful dissolution. " In the Legis'ature of Maryland, the same temper pre- V ailed, and he same ideas, in substance, were expressed. At the moment in the late war, when intelligence reached Norfolk, in Virgmia, of the destruction of Ine Capitol by the enemy, a General of Militia, (a Federalist, ) then in the service of the United State...s, declared, in the bitterness of his ang-uish, that " with one arm he would expel the foe, and with the other pull down the existing administration. " This gentleman, on the day thai his havuig used these expressions, was admitted and excus- ed by his friend in the House of Delegates of Virginia, was elected to the command of 10, 000 regular troops, which that state kad determined to raise for her own de- fence; and this friend was chosen, by the same body, a Brigadier General of that army, I have this anecdote from one of the parties.
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