James Madison’s War Message
Aug 18th, 2008 by Hunter Wallace
James Madison’s war message which was used to justify the War of 1812 included the following paragraph about the “Native Americans”:
… except for one paragraph, “the warfare just renewed by the savages on one of our extensive frontiers - a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex and to be distinguished by features peculiarly shocking to humanity.” (Nugent, 82)
