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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER II CRITICAL CHANGES A CRITICAL presidential election had marked the very outset of the war. Mr. Madison had, no doubt, been Mr. Jefferson's lieutenant and chosen successor, and had meant to walk in his footsteps, preserving peace at the price of embargoes and domestic agitation, and keeping the federal government in the background, even though it should cost it its strength and prestige. But there had been men of his own party from the first who earnestly objected to the succession, wishing a leader of a different temperament and fibre. "We ask for energy," they said, "and we are told of his moderation; we ask for talent, and the reply is, his unassuming merit." The textit{very war itself had come because Mr. Madison and his cabinet, like Mr. Jefferson and those who counselled him, had nothing to suggest, whatever wrong was wrought upon them-except to withdraw from the seas, close the ports, build gunboats to defend the harbors, and wait until the inevitable should be at hand. While they waited every condition of national politics shifted and was altered, and watchful men who wished for action had grown deeply uneasy. Sixteen years of Jeffersonian supremacy had culminated in a war which was against all Jeffersonian principles, and there had come about, while no one] planned, an unlocked for disorder of parties, a bewildering reversal of parts in every matter of policy. In June, 1813. Mr. Josiah Quincy, no Jeffersonian, but a Federal- textit{Jiff LC n/ aZt t4snc 4* JOSIAH QUINCY ist, professing to be of the school of Washington and Hamilton, had moved, in the legislature of Massachusetts, that "in a war like the present, waged without justifiable cause and prosecuted in a manner which in- dicates that conquest and ambition are its real motives, it is not becoming a m. Books History~~General History-of-the-American-People~~Woodrow-Wilson Nabu Press This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.<

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