[49] Massachusetts Spy, December 22, 1813, p. 1-3.
[50] It will be remembered that until 1820 Maine was part of Massachusetts.
[51] Quoted in the National Intelligencer (Washington), June 8, 1813, p. 2-3.
[52] I do not know what act is meant.
[53] Quoted in the New York Herald, October 2, 1813, p. 3-3. I have been unable to find a copy of the Lansingburgh Gazette containing the extract.
[54] Quoted in the Columbian Centinel, October 9, 1813, p. 2-3.
[55] The words "more or less" apparently occurred in the official accounts of the capture of York in April, 1813, but I have not been able to discover in exactly what connection. At all events, they caused much fun in the peace papers. "One dead Indian, 'more or less,'" said the New York Herald of July 14, 1813, p. 1-1. "Wanted," declared the Columbian Centinel of December 4, 1813, "about five hundred ('more or less') able-bodied, stout-hearted real Americans, to collect our land tax in our territory of Canada" (p. 2-3).
[56] Quoted in the Connecticut Courant, February 8, 1814, p. 3-2. The same passage is quoted in the Massachusetts Spy of February 9, 1814, p. 2-3, and February 23, p. 4-3, except that in both instances the words "'Uncle Sam's' hard bargains" are omitted.
[57] Quoted in the Salem Gazette, February 14, 1814, p. 3-3. See p. 29, note 33, above.
[58] Quoted in the New York Spectator, May 7, 1814, p. 1-1. The passage was also printed in the Massachusetts Spy of May 25, 1814, p. 3-3.