Speech of Ex-Governor John B. Weller

It could not have been treason when the Legislature of Massachussetts sent a memorial to Congress denouncing the war as imprope'rjimpolitic and unjus'r. (see same vol., page Nor could it have been treason when the Governors of Massachussetts and Connecticut refused to call but the militia of the respective States upon the requisition of the President, in anticipation of the war with England in 1812. Nor was it when they subsequently claimed the power to control the militia when called out, and instructed them not to invade the enemy's territory. Nor was it treason when King, of Massachussetts, said, in the House of Congress.

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