In the chesapeake and make it far more effective and destructive to the americans than had been their operation in 1813, when they did not have the same level of support and assistance from black americans. Now, this is an image that is produced. Im going to get this magic arrow out of the way, which is not part of the original image. You may recognize this structure. Its the u. S. Capitol building. This was produced in 1817 by a critic of american slavery, an american critic of american slavery named jesse torrey and jesse torrey wants you to think about the destruction of the Capitol Building and wants you to draw certain conclusions from it and those conclusions that he wants you to reach are indicated by the other figures hes put in this particular engraving. You can see down here in this right foreground, a group of enslaved africanamericans, a slave coffle. Washington, d. C. , was a slave fss a major center for the interstate slave trade of the United States, which is acceleratin
Considerations. He was well aware of balancing the different branches of the government and he never lost site of his state as all politicians of his generation took the same ground. He had a much more flexible conception of the constitution. Especially when the nation faced difficult conditions that demanded solutions. He understood are that the federal system was fragmented. And preserving the union required negotiation. The war of 1812 was as we said an example of the competing interests in different parts of the union. And in many ways it didnt succeed. Westerners made off better than the other regions they didnt get additional land from canada but as john stag mentioned they did get a lot of land from native americans. The english did not end impressment of sailors because of any pressure the United States had put on them they did it when they chose to do so. The war are had been waged by a union of regional republics with a loose allegiance to a different government, distant gove
Some cases kill their former masters. Now, possessing racial prejudice, these British Naval officers, again, theyre growing into this role. Dont get the idea that these are William Lloyd garrison on the decks of these naval warships. Theyve got other priorities. So they are not naturalborn abolitionists but they are working up a real good hatred for the United States as this conflict goes along, and theyre trying to think, how can we really stick it to them . And it occurs to them, by liberating their slaves and using them against them. Thats what is going on here. And coburn thought, well, its useful because it draws these people away from their masters. It weakens the economy. Hes not sure these young men are going to be effective fighters. He said, quote, blackie hears about naturally very valorous, end quote. Thats what he says in 1814 as the drilling has started. A month later, however, coburn changed his mind upon noticing how well the new recruits responded to their training. He
Who will frankly say, we have an internal enemy, and they are waiting on our tables, they are working in the fields next to us, and they are hanging on everything we say, and anything we say is being reported to the enemy. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. Thank you for the questions. Yes, ralph . Why didnt the british [ inaudible ] why didnt that keep going . Okay. Well, this goes to the points that andrew makes. The british dont want to be in this war. You know, sometimes these naval officers work up these real good fantasies about how great it would be to break up the United States and really stick it to the americans. But thats never the official policy of their government at home. Their policy at home is, lets get out of this war as soon as we can so they want to inflict pain on the United States but not with the goal really, at the official government level, of breaking up the United States. But of just getting them to give in and make a peace treaty as quickly as possible. So
Life and really we cannot have done our work without this incredible research. Today, hes going to illuminate for us the intricacies of madisons presidency and madisons later Life Reflections on his thoughts about the war. Please join me in welcoming our colleague and our mentor, dr. John stagg. [ applause ] thank you, katherine, for the wonderful welcome, and i would like to add my thanks to those of our previous speakers to the organizers of the conference today. As the bicentennial of the war approached, i found myself wondering, what is the federal government in washington going to do about the bicentennial war of 1812 . It was entirely predictable that the great state of maryland would have a party, particularly in 2014 because the great state of maryland thipnks it has a franchise on the starspangled banner. Im glad to say we are doing something here today, and as i say, im grateful for it. Let me start with some very general remarks about the nature of James Madisons historical