JANUARY 5TH, 1815: Hartford Convention-- A group of 22 delegates from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, meeting since December 15, 1814, wind up the convention and issued a report condemning the federal government for failing to defend New England and recommending that states negotiate arrangements with that government for their defense.
They also propose 7 Constitutional amendments to protect the influence of the northeastern states and their increasingly minority status in the United States. Primary would be it requiring a 2/3 vote by Congress to impose embargoes, admit a western state into the Union, or begin a war (unless in case of an invasion).
It is surprising how much these seems like the situation Southern states found themselves in as the years rolled on toward the Civil War. At that time, the New England states stood against the things they seemed to want in 1815.
Times and Economic Interests Change, I Guess. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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