Note 181 — Chapter XX · A GREAT WAR GOVERNOR 1812-1815
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"Among the least violent of Federalists was James Lloyd, recently United States senator from Massachusetts. To John Randolph's letter, remonstrating against the Hartford Convention, Lloyd advised the Virginians to coerce Madison into retirement, and to place Rufus King in the Presidency as the alternative to a fatal issue. The assertion of such an alternative showed how desperate the situation was believed by the moderate Federalists to be."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 8, p. 306.