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PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. 3
In the House, resolutions of an opposite character were passed disapproving of the war and the conduct of the government, but pledging their "lives
and fortunes to the public service" in the common defence.1
And the citizens of Anne Arundel County, also declared at a public
meeting—
" That we will contribute to and sustain our proportion of the public burdens, which
the exigency of the times may require, and the wisdom and policy of the general government may demand, for the purpose of avenging our national wrongs, and vindicating
and protecting the invaluable rights of freemen, for which our forefathers so manfully
contended and so successfully maintained.
"Resolved, That we hold the following maxims recommended to us by our political
saviour, Washington, the great, as sacred truths, at no time to be called in question:
That ' to pay respect to the authority of the general government, comply with its laws,
acquiesce in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.'"
Nearly the whole session of the Twelfth Congress was spent in making
preparation for offensive and defensive operations. For several years preceding this period, the military establishment had stood at about three thousand
men, and the navy consisted at this time of only ten frigates and ten sloops
of war, and about one hundred and fifty small gunboats, suitable for harbor defence. The policy of the
administration was now changed, and bills were
passed for augmenting the army, and on the 10th
of April, 1812, the President was authorized to
require of the executives of the several States and
territories, the organizing, arming and equipment of
their respective proportions of one hundred thousand
militia, and to hold them in readiness to march at
a moment's warning. This act also contained a
clause appropriating $1,000,000 towards defraying
the expense. In compliance with this requisition, Alexander c. hanson,
Governor Robert Bowie convened the General Assembly of Maryland on the
15th of June, 1812, for the purpose of making the requisite appropriations
for six thousand militia, the State's quota. After mature consideration, the
Legislature appropriated ■ the sum of $20,000. In Baltimore, the guns
at Fort McHenry were mounted, and every preparation made to meet the
exigencies of the war. And such was the enthusiasm of volunteers, that
the recruiting officers were compelled to suspend enlistments by companies and regiments, and give precedence to the old military organizations.
At this time, a journal called the Federal Republican, was published in Baltimore by Alexander Contee Hanson2 and Jacob Wagner. It was a vehement
federal organ, and had made itself particularly obnoxious by its opposition
1 Niles' Register, iii., p. 273. died at Belmont, Frederick County, April 23,
2 Alexander Contee Hanson, the grandson of 1819. After the mot in Baltimore, he was, in
John, and son of Alexander C. Hanson (Chan- 1813-16, a delegate to Congress, and in 1816-19,
cellor of Maryland), was born in Maryland, and a United States senator.
| Title | History of Maryland - 3 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000028 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. 3 In the House, resolutions of an opposite character were passed disapproving of the war and the conduct of the government, but pledging their "lives and fortunes to the public service" in the common defence.1 And the citizens of Anne Arundel County, also declared at a public meeting— " That we will contribute to and sustain our proportion of the public burdens, which the exigency of the times may require, and the wisdom and policy of the general government may demand, for the purpose of avenging our national wrongs, and vindicating and protecting the invaluable rights of freemen, for which our forefathers so manfully contended and so successfully maintained. "Resolved, That we hold the following maxims recommended to us by our political saviour, Washington, the great, as sacred truths, at no time to be called in question: That ' to pay respect to the authority of the general government, comply with its laws, acquiesce in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.'" Nearly the whole session of the Twelfth Congress was spent in making preparation for offensive and defensive operations. For several years preceding this period, the military establishment had stood at about three thousand men, and the navy consisted at this time of only ten frigates and ten sloops of war, and about one hundred and fifty small gunboats, suitable for harbor defence. The policy of the administration was now changed, and bills were passed for augmenting the army, and on the 10th of April, 1812, the President was authorized to require of the executives of the several States and territories, the organizing, arming and equipment of their respective proportions of one hundred thousand militia, and to hold them in readiness to march at a moment's warning. This act also contained a clause appropriating $1,000,000 towards defraying the expense. In compliance with this requisition, Alexander c. hanson, Governor Robert Bowie convened the General Assembly of Maryland on the 15th of June, 1812, for the purpose of making the requisite appropriations for six thousand militia, the State's quota. After mature consideration, the Legislature appropriated ■ the sum of $20,000. In Baltimore, the guns at Fort McHenry were mounted, and every preparation made to meet the exigencies of the war. And such was the enthusiasm of volunteers, that the recruiting officers were compelled to suspend enlistments by companies and regiments, and give precedence to the old military organizations. At this time, a journal called the Federal Republican, was published in Baltimore by Alexander Contee Hanson2 and Jacob Wagner. It was a vehement federal organ, and had made itself particularly obnoxious by its opposition 1 Niles' Register, iii., p. 273. died at Belmont, Frederick County, April 23, 2 Alexander Contee Hanson, the grandson of 1819. After the mot in Baltimore, he was, in John, and son of Alexander C. Hanson (Chan- 1813-16, a delegate to Congress, and in 1816-19, cellor of Maryland), was born in Maryland, and a United States senator. |
