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Expansion of the Article
I omitted the following because I could not find sources for it:


 * So deep-rooted, however, was the national distrust of this movement that Vermont and New Hampshire shrank from giving the convention a public sanction. New Hampshire had a Republican council; while in Vermont the victory at Plattsburgh stirred the Union spirit; Governor Martin Chittenden himself having changed in official tone, after the war became a defensive one. Violent county conventions representing fractions of towns chose, however, three delegates, two in New Hampshire and one in Vermont, whose credentials being accepted by the convention, the whole number of delegates assembled at Hartford was twenty-six.


 * Those Federalists opposed to war with Britain and supportive of secession were called the Blue light federalists.


 * The Democratic-Republican Congress would never have recommended any of New England's proposals for ratification. Hartford delegates intended for them to embarrass the President and the Republicans in Congress&mdash;and also to serve as a basis for negotiations between New England and the rest of the country.