[93] Marshall to Pickering, Feb. 22, 1811, Pickering MSS. Mass. Hist. Soc.
[94] Annals, 11th Cong. 3d Sess. 525.
Daniel Webster was also emphatically opposed to the admission of new States: "Put in a solemn, decided, and spirited Protest against making new States out of new Territories. Affirm, in direct terms, that New Hampshire has never agreed to favor political connexions of such intimate nature, with any people, out of the limits of the U.S. as they existed at the time of the compact." (Webster to his brother, June 4, 1813, Letters of Daniel Webster: Van Tyne, 37.)
[95] Annals, 11th Cong. 3d Sess. 542.
[96] Ib. 1st and 2d Sess. 579-82.
[97] Annals, 12th Cong. 1st Sess. 601; also see Adams: U.S. v, 189-90.
[98] Adams: U.S. v, 316.
[99] Richardson, i, 499-505; Am. State Papers, For. Rel. iii, 567-70.
[100] Annals, 12th Cong. 1st Sess. 1637. The Federalists who voted for war were: Joseph Kent of Maryland, James Morgan of New Jersey, and William M. Richardson of Massachusetts.
Professor Channing thus states the American grievances: "Inciting the Indians to rebellion, impressing American seamen and making them serve on British war-ships, closing the ports of Europe to American commerce, these were the counts in the indictment against the people and government of Great Britain." (Channing: Jeff. System, 260.) See also ib. 268, and Jefferson's brilliant statement of the causes of the war, Jefferson to Logan, Oct. 3, 1813, Works: Ford, xi, 338-39.