New York Commercial Advertiser Quotes
Mr. Morse is a scholar and a gentleman—an able man—an accomplished artist—and we should on 99 accounts to support him. But the hundredth forbids it. Somehow or other he has gotten warped in his politics.
He ran as the Nativist candidate and opposed all immigrants and Catholics in particular. He had also written venomous attacks against Catholics under the pseudonym “Brutus”. See {629690} and {629691}.
New York Commercial Advertiser, Editorial opposing the Artist and Telegraph Inventor Samuel Morse, 1791-1872, who was running for Mayor of New York City
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View the quotation in juxtaposition to the title of the book he wrote under the pseudonym Brutus. He was a paranoid conspiracy theorist and the “serpent” was the Roman Catholic Church which he was virulently against Catholics along with other immigrants.
The War of 1812 produced the first “peace movement” in the United States. The transgressions against our ships on the part of the French were much greater than those of the English who each accused us of trading with their enemy and ignoring their blockade. Nonetheless we want to war against England. Meanwhile, New England and some New York farmers and merchants were supplying not only English Canada with food and merchandise including supplying the British Army in Canada, which was not against the law then even in wartime. The “Western Frontier” in contrast were strongly in favor of the war, as they had expansionist designs on invading Canada and resented the British for supplying and allying with the Indian Tribes that were resisting the white expansion into their territories and frequently attacked and massacred farmers on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and the Carolinas. Morse wanted to hang opponents of the war.
