The Daily Madisonian

The following is extracted from the article in the Edinburgh Review, December, 1818, entitled "Travelling in America." The first part is an extract from Lieutenant Francis Hall's travels in Canada and the United States in 1816 and 1817, and the remainder is a statement of the reviewers themselves. Should not they at the North who are so prompt to charge the South with designs of disunion, look dispassionately at the facts it contains, in connection with avowals at the North of more recent occurrence?

"If ever there was a period when circumstances seemed to justify what are called energetic measures, it was during the administrations of Mr. Jefferson and his successor. A disastrous war began to rage, not only on the frontiers, but in the very penetralia of the republic

the ablest generals, and the largest fleets in the world, the American Government had raw recruits, officers who had never seen an enemy, half a dozen frigates, and a population unaccustomed to sacrifices, and impatient of taxation. To crown these disadvantages, a most important section of the Union the New England States, openly set up the standard of separation and rebellion A convention sat for the express purpose of thwarting the measures of Government; while the press and pulpit thundered every species of denunciation against whoever should assist their own country in the hour of danger."

And this was the work, not of Jacobins and Democrats, but of the staunch friends of religion and social order, who had been so zealously attached to the Government while it was administered by their own party, that they suffered not the popular breath "to visit the President's breech too roughly."

"At the same time, immense runs were made by the Boston banks on those of the Central and Southern States; while the specie thus drained was transmitted to Canada in payment of smuggled goods, and British Government bills, which were drawn in Quebec, and disposed of in great numbers, on advantageous terms, to moneyed men in the States. Mr. Henry's mission is the best proof of the result anticipated by our Government from these proceedings I New England."