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 "Beginning in earnest in 1810 with the publication of Charles Jared Ingersoll’s Inchiquin, The Jesuit’s Letters and reaching something of a crescendo between 1815 and 1819, the Paper War was largely over by 1834 when Grant Thorburn’s far less significant Men and Manners in Britain appeared. These dates, however, merely periodise the years of most concentrated activity of mutual recrimination in literature and the political press. Both English criticism of the United States and American resentment were not new. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, however, these views assumed a purposeful shape and momentum through the participation of the North American Review and the Port Folio as well as major public figures such as New York writer, James Kirke Paulding; Philadelphia lawyer, Charles Jared Ingersoll; New England Divine, Timothy Dwight; and journalist and academic, Robert Walsh." |
