At the First International Conference of American States in 1890, a plan for systematic arbitration was developed, but not accepted. It was first used in the Jay Treaty of 1795 negotiated by John Jay, and played a major role in the Alabama Claims case of 1872 whereby major tensions regarding the United Kingdom and the American Civil War were resolved. and Great Britain were pioneers in the use of arbitration to resolve their differences. For the rest of 1861 opposition to the war, in both North and South, was scattered and often violent it was based on politics not pacifism. The peace movement, had weakened in the 1850s and was no practically dead, apart from a large faction of Quakers. After Sumter the abolitionists called for an intensive total war to destroy slavery once and for all. The abolitionist movement had long contained a powerful pacifist element, led by William Lloyd Garrison. With the Confederate artillery attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, the mood in the North decisively changed, bringing a hyperpatriotic emphasis on defending the United States in the name of American nationalism. They tolerated or engaged in violence to defend the nation, repress insurrection, and free the slaves. Instead the pacifists said non-violence only applied to international affairs. Merle Curti notes the traditional rhetoric of pacifism was seldom heard. Remaining pacifists called for peaceful separation, as did many prominent civic leaders of both parties North and South. The peace movement had weakened greatly in the 1850s, as it used violence to stop the return of runaway slaves and supported the violence in Kansas. A civil war was imminent, and a large fraction of public opinion, especially in the north, decried the horrors of an imminent war with massive depth suffering and destruction. See also: Anti-war movement § American Civil War, and Opposition to the American Civil WarĪfter the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1861, the Deep South cotton states led by South Carolina, seceded from the union and established a new Confederate States of America. The groups merged into the American Peace Society, which held weekly meetings and produced literature that was spread as far as Gibraltar and Malta describing the horrors of war and advocating pacifism on Christian grounds. The first movement in the United States was the New York Peace Society, founded in 1815 by theologian David Low Dodge, followed by the Massachusetts Peace Society. There was a complete turnover of the New Hampshire delegation. In the ensuing 18 United States House of Representatives elections, eight sitting New England congressmen were rejected by the voters, and several others saw the writing on the wall and declined to seek re-election. Three governors refused to place their state militias under federal control for duty outside the territory of their respective states. Madison's War" erupted in Federalist Party strongholds in New England. Madison obliged in an effort to maintain American rights and honor in what contemporaries called, "The second war for independence." Vehement protests against "Mr. Jeffersonian war hawks led by Henry Clay and John Calhoun demanded war with Britain. Britain refused to rescind the 1807 Orders in Council. This badly hurt the New England economy smuggling exports into Canada resulted. Jefferson tried to use the Embargo Act of 1807 to gain leverage by making exports illegal. From the French Revolutionary Wars onward, the British impressed American sailors who had once been British subjects (many of whom were deserters) into the Royal Navy and cut off U.S. The war started during the Napoleonic Wars, and the ruling Democratic-Republican Party under presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison fiercely opposed seizures of American shipping by Britain and France and were hostile to both sides. Many New Englands opposed the war on political, economic and religious grounds. Opposition to the War of 1812 was strongest in New England, which conducted significant amounts of trade with the British Empire, and weakest in the Southern United States. Main article: Opposition to the War of 1812 in the United States
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