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They call it a war
for commerce!
Editorial from the New York Evening Post on Jan. 26, 1812
Look for yourselves, good people all - The administration tell me that the
object for which they are going to war with Great Britain, is to secure our
commercial rights; to put the trade of the country on a good footing; to
enable our merchants to deal with Great Britain on full as favorable
terms as they deal with France, or else not deal at all.
Such is the declared object for which all further intercourse is to be
suspended with Great Britain and her allies, while we proceed to make
war upon her and them until we compel her to pay more respect to
American commerce: and, as Mr. Stow truly observed in his late excellent
speech, the anxiety of members of Congress to effect this object is
always the greater in proportion to the distance any honorable member
lives from the seaboard. To enable you, good people, to judge for
yourselves, I have only to beg of you to turn your eyes to Mr. Gallatin's
letter in a succeeding column, stating the amount of the exports of the
United States for the last year; the particular country to which these
exports were sent, and specifying the amount received from us by each.
If you will just cast a glance at this document, you will find of the articles
of our own growth or manufactures we in that time carried or sent
abroad (in round numbers) no less than $45,294,000 worth.
You will next find that out of this sum, all the rest of the world (Great
Britain and her allies excepted) took about $7,719,366, and that Great
Britain and her allies took the remainder, amounting to $38,575,627.
Now, after this, let me ask you what you think of making war upon Great
Britain and her allies, for the purpose of benefiting commerce?
for commerce!
Editorial from the New York Evening Post on Jan. 26, 1812
Look for yourselves, good people all - The administration tell me that the
object for which they are going to war with Great Britain, is to secure our
commercial rights; to put the trade of the country on a good footing; to
enable our merchants to deal with Great Britain on full as favorable
terms as they deal with France, or else not deal at all.
Such is the declared object for which all further intercourse is to be
suspended with Great Britain and her allies, while we proceed to make
war upon her and them until we compel her to pay more respect to
American commerce: and, as Mr. Stow truly observed in his late excellent
speech, the anxiety of members of Congress to effect this object is
always the greater in proportion to the distance any honorable member
lives from the seaboard. To enable you, good people, to judge for
yourselves, I have only to beg of you to turn your eyes to Mr. Gallatin's
letter in a succeeding column, stating the amount of the exports of the
United States for the last year; the particular country to which these
exports were sent, and specifying the amount received from us by each.
If you will just cast a glance at this document, you will find of the articles
of our own growth or manufactures we in that time carried or sent
abroad (in round numbers) no less than $45,294,000 worth.
You will next find that out of this sum, all the rest of the world (Great
Britain and her allies excepted) took about $7,719,366, and that Great
Britain and her allies took the remainder, amounting to $38,575,627.
Now, after this, let me ask you what you think of making war upon Great
Britain and her allies, for the purpose of benefiting commerce?