1To James Madison from the Inhabitants of Northampton, Massachusetts, [1 July] 1812 (Madison Papers)
The Memorial and Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Northampton, in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Humbly sheweth That your Memorialists have received, with inexpressible surprize and pain, an Act of Congress declaring War against Great Britain, and the Proclamation of the President consequent thereon and earnestly desiring to consult the best means, under...