18 juin 1812 - Opposition to the war

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“Mr. Madison’s War” was the term used by Americans who were against the war and work of war hawks in Congress. New England merchants, Federalist politicians, and Quids were among the group that would advocate on behalf of the criticism of the war. New England
merchants made substantial profits from the European war after the Embargo Act was abolished, and regarded the impression as a nuisance. With the ultimate objective of rising Democratic-Republican voting control, Federalist politicians regarded the war as a Democratic-Republican strategy to conquer
Canada and Florida. Also known as Old Democratic-Republicans, the Quids denounced the war for undermining the conventional Democratic-Republican pledge to minimal federal control and peacekeeping. Led by John Randolph of Virginia, the Quids were a radical state rights party. The Quids sought to deprive Madison of the Democratic-Republican presidential nomination in 1808, feeling that
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had retreated from the interests of the States and that they had simply become nationalists.

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