Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. FROM MAY 1, 1890, TO BUY 1, 1831. The result of the election, so far as respects political power, was a complete triumph to the opponents of the governor. In the senate they had for some time had a strong majority, and the new senators elected added to that majority. In the assembly the majority against the governor was eighteen. How did it happen that Mr. Clinton, when his friends were slain around him, after a competition with a man who, perhaps, was personally more popular than any man the state ever produced, should have walked off the field in triumph 1 Among the causes to which this result is to be ascribed, the following appear to me most prominent: The people are always sensitive, and justly so, in relation to the management and expenditure of their money. If the vice-president was popular as a governor, Mr. McIntyre was equally so as a citizen, and as a faithful guardian of the treasury; and no doubt many of the personal and political friends of the late governor suspected that there was something wrong in his accounts, and in his management of the public funds, and withheld from him their votes on that account; and I think the inference may be fairly sustained, that he lost more from the suspicion, than he gained from the sympathy of his republican friends. Notwithstanding the division produced by the corps of high minded federalists, the great body of the federalists gave Mr. Clinton a more unanimous support than they had done either Mr. Burr or Gov. Lewis. As a party, the name of Tompkins, was peculiarly odious to them. Their repeated, though unsuccessful contests with him, had increased, rather than diminished their hostility. Mr. Clinton, too, had never deceived them. From the year 1813, when he and many of...
