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Freeman's Chronicle
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
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British colonial journals argue for the necessity of Great Britain capturing New Orleans to divide the United States, secure Western trade, benefit West India planters, and prevent future American unity, drawing lessons from the 1763 war.
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POLICY OF TAKING N. ORLEANS.
There are arguments in our colonial Journals, tending to prove that there exists a necessity for our Government's taking possession of the province of New Orleans. We extract the following observations on that subject: "If Great Britain will only take New Orleans, she will divide the States. By shutting that outlet to the fruit of Western industry, she will make herself known and respected by those states, in spite of the power of the rest of the Union. If in the war of 1765, France had been as superior at sea, as Britain then was, we should never have heard of the United States of America. The back country would have been as well settled before this with Frenchmen, as it now is with the descendants of Britons. We ought at present to take the benefit of former lessons, and make those people our friends, when so much is at stake. Take New Orleans, which at the threshold of our West India islands, and which could furnish us with provisions at half the price we have been accustomed to get. Such conduct, from allies would create on the Continent: our W. I. planters would be gratified: the integrity of the southern possessions in America guaranteed from traitorous insults."
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New Orleans
Event Date
June 17, 1813
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hypothetical benefits include dividing the us, gaining western respect, cheaper provisions for west indies, and securing southern possessions.
Event Details
Colonial journals argue that Britain should capture New Orleans to divide the United States by blocking Western trade outlets, drawing parallels to the 1763 war where French naval inferiority allowed American independence; capturing it would make Western states allies, provide cheap provisions, gratify West India planters, and protect southern possessions.