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...this moment of peril, radical Federalists wanted to break America up. Morris called for New England and New York to secede. He admitted this would cause "civil war. And what of it?" New England Federalists tried a moderate-seeming two-step. Delegates from five states met in Hartford, Conn., in December 1814 for a three-week-long convention. They wanted to divert federal tax revenue to their states for self-defense and have the central government recognize state laws shielding their citizens from conscription--in effect, giving New England its own military and foreign policy. If Madison balked at these...
Commissioners carrying the resolutions of the Hartford Convention headed for Washington in February 1815. They were preceded by news of a tremendous U.S. victory at New Orleans. A diplomatic bulletin followed the military one: British and American diplomats, who had been meeting in Belgium since the previous summer, had cobbled together a peace treaty pleasing to both sides...
Suppose the Battle of New Orleans had gone the other way. How would the Federalists have looked then? Morris thought he knew: "The madmen and traitors assembled at Hartford" would be "hailed" as "patriots and sages...
...first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. The Crimson is a 15-seed and Maryland is the second-ranked team in the tourney’s Dayton regional bracket. Tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn., and the game will be televised on ESPN and ESPNU...
...stage is definitely set for the impossible to happen again. The two teams will square off at the Harford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn., located just a short drive away from Cambridge. Harvard could possibly have a slight home-court advantage on Sunday, a privilege the Crimson has yet to enjoy in any of its trips to the Big Dance...