May 9, 1812
I can't believe what I have done! I haven't written in years, and I suppose there is simply no excuse I could give to make up for this. I do know that lately, I have been quite anxious, and at first, I couldn't figure out why. However, in the last few weeks, I believe that I may have come up with the reason. I have been very worried about the Crazy Rebels seriously thinking of declaring war on us! Now, before you say, "Alister, you have gone completely and utterly insane, and you are way too paranoid. Maybe you should go see a doctor." Hear me out. I have some reasons why I think such a thing, and it's NOT just because they're Crazy Rebels.
First of all, I think that the Crazy Rebels are simply very angry with us, and anger is an emotion that can cause people to do things without logically thinking it through. One of the reasons that they must be very angry is the "Impressment" as they call it, that our Navy has been committing. Mainly, the conditions on all of our ships are very horrible, and because of this, many of our people run off to join the American Merchant Navy, who have much better ship conditions than us, and are used for trade, not war. We have started to stop these ships to try to find the runaways of ours, and also try to force the Crazy Rebels to join us too. If I was a Crazy Rebel, I would be angry too!
The second reason that I think the Crazy Rebels are angry is the "Blockade" that we created. Because of the war raging in Europe, (Oops... did I forget to mention that?) we sent out our Navy to block France from trading with The Crazy Rebels and such. (Hence the name, "Blockade") By doing this, we were trying to give the French army a hard time, but it also had a negative effect on those Cray Rebels as well. Since they aren't being traded with as much, their Economy isn't doing so hot. Oh well. I used to trade with someone who traded with them, and now he isn't coming around. So I guess this isn't exactly helping me either...
The next factor is our alliances with the Natives. We have influenced the Natives greatly, and the Crazy Rebels aren't too happy about that. Actually, they are down-right furious about it. We apparently have encouraged the Natives to be very un-friendly with the Crazy Rebels and we apparently told the Natives to keep a large amount of land for themselves and to stop selling their land to the Crazy Rebels. Because of this, the Crazy Rebels are unable to expand, and they are extremely upset about it.
The last reason that I have to explain is those imbecile War Hawks. I don't care what anyone says, these guys are completely INSANE. I'm not joking. They are all going, "Crazy Rebel Land is meant to expand and take up this WHOLE continent." The WHOLE continent? Are they Crazy? Actually, as I mentioned before, they are. I say they can take their "Crazy Rebel Land" And shove it where- oh. I really shouldn't say stuff like that... *Ahem* As I was saying, we live here too you know Crazy Rebels! If you think that we don't deserve too, well neither do they! The problem is, the Crazy Rebels actually like these guys. They are all saying, "Yeah! War Hawks are SO smart, because I am a complete Idiot with less than a Quarter of a brain in my head!"
I guess I'll just have to deal with it. However, now that I think about it, some of these reasons have negative factors on us British too! That's got me thinking, does the government even care if we are having a hard time too? I wonder... Oh well. I have to go, and I PROMISE that this time I won't forget about my journal for years.
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