American History: Biographies: Henry Carey 1793 1879

Henry Carey was the eldest son of Mathew Carey, an Irish freedom fighter who was recruited to the intelligence networks established by Benjamin Franklin, and sent to Philadelphia to run what was then the largest printing operation in North America. Mathew Carey's 1814 book, The Olive Branch, issued a few months after British Admiral Cockburn had sacked and burnt Washington, D.C., played a crucial role in bolstering sagging public and military morale, by exposing the rift between the Federalist and Republican Parties as a major cause of the inept prosecution of the war up to that point.