The life and times of Martin Van Buren: the correspondence of his friends ...
By William Lyon Mackenzie
"Col. Wm. Duane, the friend of Jefferson... . Hear his account of the war of 1812--I quote the Aurora of August 17, 1816."
"The last war may be fairly considered, as it regards every thing--but the patience, hardihood and valor, of the line and the militia--one of the worst conducted, the most imbecile, inconsistent, and confused in its designs, that the world ever saw. The system of loans was a most villainous systematic cheat, for which every man who was concerned, ought to be recorded in a register of infamy."
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