Federalist (nationalist) Senator Timothy Pickering, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in a letter to Theodore Lyman suggests that New York and the New England States secede and form their own confederacy due to Republican (constitutionalist) President Jefferson’s trade embargo against the belligerent nations participating in the Napoleonic (world) War of 1803.
Subsequent Events:
References:
Thomas DiLorenzo, “Yankee Confederates, New England Secession Movements,” Secession, State and Liberty, David Gordon, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction, 1998), 140-41.
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