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MONROE, JAMES, President. Letter signed ("Jas Monroe") as Secretary of State and Secretary of War, labeled "Confidential" at top, to an unidentifed recipient, [Washington, D.C.], 11 January 1815. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, 235 x 190mm. (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.), 6 lines of another letter pasted to integral blank of present letter, lightly browned, several perforations to central fold.
THE SECRETARY OF WAR PREPARES FOR TROUBLE IN THE WAKE OF THE HARTFORD CONVENTION
About one week after the close of the Hartford Convention, called by disgruntled New England Federalists and four days before General Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans, Secretary Monroe discusses a standing militia and the protection of the Springfield arsenal. "It is expected that a bill will pass Congress in a day or two, authorising the President to accept State Corps to a number not exceeding 40,000 to be apportioned among the states...and also to raise a like number of volunteers...to serve for the war...These corps, tho called volunteers, will in effect be regular troops...It is intended to raise a considerable part of this force in the northern section of the Union. Your aid to this Government...will be required...The proceedings at Hartford [the Hartford Convention] have excited much anxiety, as likely to embarrass the measures of the Government, and by the countenance they have afforded the enemy to prolong the war, if they should not lead into worse consequences. General Swartout has been authorized to take measures...for the security of the arms at Springfield..."
Monroe's fears for an armed rebellion of the Federalist states proved unwarranted, and the end of the War of 1812 discredited the convention's doctrine of sectional rights.
THE SECRETARY OF WAR PREPARES FOR TROUBLE IN THE WAKE OF THE HARTFORD CONVENTION
About one week after the close of the Hartford Convention, called by disgruntled New England Federalists and four days before General Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans, Secretary Monroe discusses a standing militia and the protection of the Springfield arsenal. "It is expected that a bill will pass Congress in a day or two, authorising the President to accept State Corps to a number not exceeding 40,000 to be apportioned among the states...and also to raise a like number of volunteers...to serve for the war...These corps, tho called volunteers, will in effect be regular troops...It is intended to raise a considerable part of this force in the northern section of the Union. Your aid to this Government...will be required...The proceedings at Hartford [the Hartford Convention] have excited much anxiety, as likely to embarrass the measures of the Government, and by the countenance they have afforded the enemy to prolong the war, if they should not lead into worse consequences. General Swartout has been authorized to take measures...for the security of the arms at Springfield..."
Monroe's fears for an armed rebellion of the Federalist states proved unwarranted, and the end of the War of 1812 discredited the convention's doctrine of sectional rights.