CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today September 4, 2014
Plattsburgh, there is no troops between here and washington, d. C. There is no american the cavalry is not coming. And with plattsburgh gone, they can sweep down the lake, they can go on to lake george, and they can go on to the hudson and split the United States in half. In the meantime, the treaty of gent talks are on. And this is a bargaining chip. If you can take plattsburgh, and you can redraw the northern border of the United States, wherever the british troop lines are at the time, well, these negotiations are going on, thats going to be the new northern border. What they had in mind, t...