. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. roops. But in November of the sameyear the hostile decree was reversed, and all restrictions on the com-merce of the United States were removed. If Great Britain had actedwith equal liberality and justice, there would have been no furthercomplaint. But that government, with peculiar obstinacy, adhered toits former measures, and sent ships of war to hover around the Amer-ican ports and enforce the odious orders issued in the previous was only a question of time when such insolence would l
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. roops. But in November of the sameyear the hostile decree was reversed, and all restrictions on the com-merce of the United States were removed. If Great Britain had actedwith equal liberality and justice, there would have been no furthercomplaint. But that government, with peculiar obstinacy, adhered toits former measures, and sent ships of war to hover around the Amer-ican ports and enforce the odious orders issued in the previous was only a question of time when such insolence would lead to re-taliation and war. The affairs of the two nations were fast approaching a crisis. Itbecame more and more apparent that the wrongs perpetrated by GreatBritain against the United States would have to be corrected by forceof arms. That England, after such a career of arrogance, would nowmake reparation for the outrages committed by her navy was no longerto be hoped for. The ministry of that same George III. with whomthe colonies had struggled in the Revolution still directed the affair?. JAMES MADISON. 390 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. of the kingdom; from him, now grown old and insane, nothing wasto be expected. The government of the United States had fallencompletely under control of the party which sympathized with France,while the Federal party, from its leaning toward British interests andinstitutions, grew weaker year by year. The American people, smart-ing under the insults of Great Britain, had adopted the motto of FreeTrade and Sailors Rights, and for that motto they had made uptheir minds to fight. The elections, held between 1808 and 1811,showed conclusively the drift of public opinion; the sentiment of thecountry Avas that war was preferable to further humiliation and dis-grace. In the spring of 1810 the third census of the United States wascompleted. The population had increased to seven million two hun-dred and forty thousand souls. The States now numbered
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