The Traveler… Battle of Baltimore…

February 8, 2018 by  
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Yesterday I traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, by the means of the Niles’ Register dated February 7, 1818. There I found an exchange of letters between Caleb Strong, the Governor of Massachusetts, and President Monroe pertaining to payment for militia called out during the war but withheld from the control of the national government. “…A few weeks since, agreeably to the request of general Dearborn, I detached eleven hundred militia for three months, for the defence of our coast… I will thank you , sir, to consult with the president, and inform me whether the expenses, thus necessarily incurred for our protection, will be ultimately reimbursed to this state by the general government;…”  The reply was “… Any aid which the state of Massachusetts may afford to the United States to meet these expenditures, will be cheerfully received, and applied to the payment and support of the militia of that state in the service of the United States. It will be proper that the money thus advanced should be deposited in some bank in Boston, at hat the disbursement of it may be made under the authority of the government of the United States as in similar cases elsewhere. Credit will be given to the state for such advance and the amount be considered as a loan to the United States…”

~The Traveler

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