Persons whose “voice is still for war.”
1798. At present, the war hawks talk of septembrizing, deportation, and the examples for quelling sedition set by the French executive.—Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, April 26.
1798. The warhawks will be now more than ever distracted.—The Aurora, Phila., Nov. 10.
*1812.
| Our War-Hawks, when pot-valiant grown, | |
| Could they the British King dethrone, | |
| Would sacrifice a man a day;— | |
| To me the reason’s very plain, | |
| When topers talk in such a strain, | |
| They want a double Can-a-day. | |
Columbia Centinel, Feb. 19. |
1812. By accident looking into the Chronicle, I was much diverted with the curious toasts of the war hawks at Charlestown …. The office-holders, or leaders of the war-hawks (for be it known that there are very few violent war-hawks in Boston, except those holding offices under the federal government) these honest tory war-hawks, from Hone down to Madame Belcone, are in great tribulation—about what they are pleased to call people’s opposition to the government…. Truth will prevail, and the war-hawks will be discomfited.—Boston-Gazette, July 16.
1812. The Rice, Cotton, and Tobacco of the Southern War-Hawks will find a safe, cheap, and ready conveyance to foreign markets.—Id., Aug. 3.
1812. The war-hawks, and those who hold lucrative offices under Mr. Madison, now pretend that he is for peace, and that the war is owing to the federalists!!!—Id., Oct. 26, Supplement.
1813. It was a public boast, after the declaration of war, by certain war-hawks, that they had driven the little man [Madison] up to it.—Id., March 15.
*1814–15. We read of “the War-Hawk Government” (Columbian Centinel, Sept. 28, 1814); of “the War-Hawk party” (Portsmouth Oracle, Jan. 28, 1815); of “the War-Hawk rulers” (Columbian Centinel, Sept. 28, 1814); and of “our War-Hawk Selectmen” (Connecticut Courant, Aug. 16, 1814).
1846. The gentleman a friend of 54° 40′! Why the gentleman regarded 54° 40′ men as “war hawks” and “war dogs.”—Mr. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, House of Repr., April 17: Cong. Globe, p. 687.
1847. I put it to you, war-hawks of Mississippi, whose Democratic Governor repudiated seven millions of your State debt at one batch.—Mr. Culver of N.Y., the same, Jan. 20: id., p. 253, App.
*** The starred quotations are taken from Mr. Albert Matthews’s monograph on ‘UNCLE SAM,’ pp. 28–9.
