Note 100 — Chapter I
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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.
"The United States," says Henry Adams, "had a superfluity of only too good causes for war with Great Britain." (Adams: Life of Albert Gallatin, 445.) Adams emphasizes this: "The United States had the right to make war on England with or without notice, either for her past spoliations, her actual blockades, her Orders in Council other than blockades, her Rule of 1756, her impressments, or her attack on the 'Chesapeake,' not yet redressed,—possibly also for other reasons less notorious." (Adams: U.S. v, 339.) And see Roosevelt, chaps, i and ii.