The members from New Hampshire, most of those from Massachusetts, then including Maine, those of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Delaware, with several from New York, some from Virginia and North Carolina, one from Pennsylvania, and three from Maryland, opposed the war. The members from Vermont, some from New York, all but one from Pennsylvania, most from Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, all from South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and Louisiana, supported it.—Ingersoll's History of the War.
[14]: The Postmaster-General was not at that time a member of the Cabinet.
[15]: Vide Armstrong's Notices of the War of 1812.
[16]: Vide Hull's Memoirs, and Armstrong's Notices of the War.
[17]: Miller's testimony on the trial of Hull.
[18]: McAfee's History.
[19]: One of those, the Caledonia, afterwards did good service as a part of the fleet of Perry on Lake Erie. The other having gone aground, was burnt, to prevent recapture.
[20]: Now General Wool.
[21]: Mansfield's Life of Scott.
[22]: Vide Life and Services of Sir George Provost.