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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. George Sullivan, at the Late Rockingham Convention: With the Memorial and Resolutions, and Report of the Committee of Elections
What are the wrongs of which we complain, and which War is to remedy? We have been told that our maritime rights have been wantonly violated, and that the protection of these rights is one object of the War. But how do our Government propose to afford this protection Not by a Navy, for they are determined to have none; but, strange to tell! By invading the Canadas. Thus abandoning every principle of common sense, they have resolved to protect our rights on the ocean, by a War on the land. Every man, who is capable of re?ecting at all, must perceive, that if we should invade the Canadas and annex them to the United States, our maritime rights would be as unprotected then, as they are now.
It is a remarkable fact, that while the Administration have plunged us into War for the professed purpose of protecting therights of our merchants, the whole mercantile interest from one end of the country to the other is against War.
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