And every body must perceive that there is something to fear from machinations of Antifoederal malignity. By my accounts from the North I have every reason to believe that Adams will run there universally. I hear of no persons thought of to the South, but Rutlege in South Carolina and Clinton in Virginia. As the accounts of the appointments of electors will satisfy the partisans of those Gentlemen in each of those States that they will have no coadjustors elsewhere, it seems not improbable that they will relinquish the attempt in favour of their intended candidates. Here then is a chance of unanimity in Adams.
Men are fond of going with the stream.
Grant there is little danger. Here supposing equal unanimity on each side in a different candidate the chance is that there will be Eight votes to spare from Adams leaving him still a majority. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton . All rights reserved.