A history of the United States for schools . ty of thewar was shown in the autumn elections. Some of theRepublicans, dissatisfied with Madison, nomi- TliG cIgc- nated DeWitt Clinton, of New York, for the tionof 1812 presidency, and the Federalists, hopeless ofelecting any candidate of their own, concluded to sup-port Clinton. Of the 218 electoral votes, Madison ob-tained 128, and was elected. For England, the mistress of the seas, the war be-gan with some strange surprises. On the 13th Navalof August, the frigate Essex, Captain Porter, ^=*°^ the British sloop Alert, after a fight of
A history of the United States for schools . ty of thewar was shown in the autumn elections. Some of theRepublicans, dissatisfied with Madison, nomi- TliG cIgc- nated DeWitt Clinton, of New York, for the tionof 1812 presidency, and the Federalists, hopeless ofelecting any candidate of their own, concluded to sup-port Clinton. Of the 218 electoral votes, Madison ob-tained 128, and was elected. For England, the mistress of the seas, the war be-gan with some strange surprises. On the 13th Navalof August, the frigate Essex, Captain Porter, ^=*°^ the British sloop Alert, after a fight of eightminutes, without losinga man. But that wasnothing compared towhat happened sixdays later, when the44-gun frigate Consti-tution, Captain IsaacHull, after a half-hours fight in theGulf of St. Law-rence, captured the38-gun frigate Guer-riere. The Britishship lost 100 men, herthree masts with alltheir rigging were shot away, and her hull was so cutup that she had to be left to sink; the American ship ^ From The Aitalcdic Magazine, vol. ISAAC 290 THE FEDERAL UNION. Ch. XIIT. had fourteenmen killed andwounded, andwithin an houror so was readyfor another fight. On the13th of Octo-ber, the sloopWasp capturedthe British sloopFrolic. On the25 th, the frigateUnited States,Captain Deca-tur, capturedthe frigate Ma-THE ccdoniau, off the island of Madeira, after a fight of an hour and a half. The British ship lost 106 men, was totally dismasted, and 1 From a painting by Marsliall Johnson, Jr., owned by Benjamin , Boston, Mass. This noble frigate, one of the most famous shipsknown to history, was built at Harts shipyard, in Boston, and launchedOctober 21, 1797, at the place where Constitution Wharf now was coppered by Paul Revere, and first went to sea in August, 1798,under Commodore Nicholson. In 1833, she was pronounced unsea-worthy, and it was decided to destroy her. It was then that OliverWendell Holmes wrote his famous poem Old Ironsides
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