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Nor was this a pacifist gathering: when Jay ventured a neutral toast wishing "a safe and honourable peace to all the belligerent powers", it was received cojdly, and with about as much enthusiasm as Woodrow Wilsons "Peace without Victory," of which it was the prototype.

The feeling of these merchants was as to France, war to the knife, the knife to the hilt as to America, peace, conciliation, harmony.

It was not until Washington had ceased to speak, and until the party who detested and vilified him became paramount, that the Union declared war.

Simcoe states with some pride that the idea of war called forth all the loyalty of the province, and that he could have relied on the loyalty of no man more than on that of a gentleman who had opposed his pet scheme for courts Richard Cartwright and there can be no doubt that had there been war, Upper Canadians would have stood shoulder to shoulder under Simcoe to repel attack, however hopeless they might think the resistance would probably be.

Simcoes own determination is shown by his specific orders to the commandant of the Miamis Fort to fire on any United States troops which should approach.