Of the following, the only argument not put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a declaration of war against Britain was that

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The argument that Britain's commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America's profitable New England shipping business was put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a declaration of war against Britain. The other arguments - that the British armed Indians and incited them to raid frontier settlements, that British impressment policies were an affront to American nationalism, that British Canada and Spanish Florida were attractive and easily obtainable prizes of war, and that the orders in council stopped the flow of Western farm products to Europe - were all used as reasons for war.

Of the Following, the Only Argument Not Put Forward by the War