1To James Madison from the Inhabitants of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 6 July 1812 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
6 July 1812. “Your Memorialists view with increasing alarm the Declaration of war by Congress against the United Kingdom of Great Brittain and Ireland and their Dependencies, especially as, in the opinion of your Memorialists, it will unavoidably be attended with an alliance with France—an event, against which they enter their solemn protest. “Your Memorialists, desirous that none of the...