Brougham's Clean Sweep: A Study of the Opinions of Four London Daily Newspapers About the Repeal of the Orders in Council in 1812
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Thurtell, Joel
Issue Date
1967
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
At least one important area of the War of 1812 historians
have either totally ignored or at least slighted, and that is
the repeal of the British restrictions on American trade--the
orders in council--just before the United States declared war
on Britain. Normally authors working with broader subjects
which also covered repeal have only gently nudged this topic.
In his nine-volume history of the United States Adams devoted
only one short chapter to it. Perkins, while going into more
detail in his own single chapter on repeal, still admitted that it was far from the last word. Repeal itself is a large
subject and a lengthy monograph would be needed to deal adequately
with it.
For a detailed study of the causes of the War of 1812,
however, a knowledge of the background of repeal is necessary.
Because the orders were the Americans' main reason for going to
war, that tl1ey were rescinded two days before war was declared
is very important. If the orders were in the process of repeal,
why were not the United States, in the process of starting a
war, aware of it? And how obvious was it to outsiders that
the British were finally taking some action against the orders?
The reverse of the question is also pertinent: how aware were
the British of the American steps towards war, and how much did
they credit them? With such questions this paper will deal.
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