As I have before me the proceedings of the Hartford Convention, and an attested copy of the secret journal of that body published in Boston by O. Everett, 13 Cornhill, 1823, I will give a few extracts from the journal.
Members of the Convention.
From Massachusetts: George Cabot, William Prescott, Harrison Gray Otis, Timothy Biglow, Nathaniel Dane, George Bliss, Joshua Thomas, Hodijah Bayliss, Daniel Waldo, Joseph Lyman, Samuel W. Wilde, and Stephen Longfellow.
From Connecticut: Chauncey Goodrich, James Hillhouse, John Treadwell, Zepheniah Swift, Nathaniel Smith, Calvin Goddard, and Roger M. Sherman.
From New Hampshire: Benjamin West and Miles Olcott.
From Rhode Island: Daniel Lyman, Benjamin Hazard, and Edward Manton.
George Cabot was chosen President of the Convention.
Convention assembled December 15, 1814, and prepared rules and orders. 1. Meetings to be opened each morning with prayer.... 2. The most inviolable secrecy shall be observed by each member of the Convention, including doorkeeper, etc....
December 16, 1814, committee met, ... opened with prayer.... Committee reported the following to be proper subjects for the consideration of the Convention:
The powers claimed by the Executive of the United States to determine conclusively in respect to calling out the militia of the States into the service of the United States, and dividing the United States into military districts with an officer of the army in each thereof, with discretionary authority from the Executive of the United States to call for the militia to be under the command of such officer.... The refusal of the Executive of the United States to supply or pay the militia of certain States when called out in their defense.... The failure of the Government of the United States to provide for the common defense, ... leaving the separate States to defend themselves, etc.