(WAR OF 1812) Snyder Simon General Orders to call up the Pen

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"IF EVER A NATION HAD MOTIVE TO FIGHT, WE ARE THAT PEOPLE" (WAR OF 1812.) Snyder, Simon. "General Orders" to call up the Pennsylvania militia for the looming war. 3 printed pages, 13 1/4 x 8 inches, on one folding sheet, with manuscript corrections on the first page, a manuscript letter inscribed in the lower margin of page 3, and address panel on page 4 with inked "Harrisburgh" stamp and "12 1/2" marking; folds, seal tear just touching text, short closed separation at one fold. Harrisburg, PA, 12 May 1812

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The month before the formal declaration of war, Pennsylvania Governor Simon Snyder had been called upon by President Madison to provide 14,000 troops. He makes the case to his militia in stirring patriotic terms: "The revolution of America, that great and mighty struggle . . . issued in giving to the United States that place among the powers of the earth, to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitled them. . . . It is time that our enemies--that our friends--that the world should know, we are not degenerate sons of gallant sires. . . . If ever a nation had justifiable cause of war, that nation is the United States. If ever a nation had motive to fight, we are that people. Our government, the watchful guardians of our welfare, have sounded the alarm." The added manuscript letter is from the state's Adjutant General William Reed to Major General Isaac Worrell, described in the printed text as the commander of the state's First Division. No other copies of this printed circular have been traced on OCLC, in Shaw & Shoemaker, or at auction.