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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Treashunt, post: 2060651, member: 6763&quot;]Interesting, I did not know about this.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>Hartford Convention</b> was a series of meetings from December 15, 1814 – January 5, 1815 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" rel="nofollow">Hartford, Connecticut</a>, United States, in which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England" rel="nofollow">New England</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Party" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Party" rel="nofollow">Federalists</a> met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812" rel="nofollow">War of 1812</a> and the political problems arising from the federal government&#039;s increasing power. Despite radical outcries among Federalists for New England <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession" rel="nofollow">secession</a> and a separate peace with Great Britain, moderates outnumbered them and extreme proposals were not a major focus of the debate.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Source: </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention" rel="nofollow"><b>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention</b></a></p><p><b>Interesting, very interesting</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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