Anti-Federalism Quotes
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.
