<Li> Jump up ^ Schouler, History of the United States vol 1 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Buel (2005) pp. 224 - 225 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Morison (1969) 362 - 370 . Morison (1968) p. 48 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Buel (2005) pp. 219 - 220 . Morison (1968) p. 53 . Morison referred to "a myth of a New England secessionist plot" and said . "This myth, although shown to be false by every serious historian of the United States for the past 150 years, is so pleasing to people who dislike New England that many to this day continue to believe it ." </Li>

As a result of the hartford convention following the war of 1812