Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-11-25

yet he possessed a commanding infu.
ence over the minds Of those with whom
he commingled, or was in any manner
connected an ascendancy, which was
to be ascribed, in a manner, to force Of
intellect. On the 18th of Sept 1850,
Gen. Schuyler was candidate for Con-
] gress. Atthat time, the members were
chosen by the Legislature. Each house.
viva voce, named a candidate. The two
branches then met together and compa.
red their nominations. Ifthey both des.
ignated the same individual, he was de.
clared to be chosen if not, they pro.
ceeded as one body to a ballot, and the
person having the majority of all the
votes was duly elected. The house al.
most unanimously, nominated Schuyler
the vote being, for Schuyler 81, for Ezra
L'Hommedieu 7. The senate nomin.
ated L'Hommedieu. In joint ballot not.
withstanding the votelSchuyler had re.
ceived in the house, L'Hommedieu was
elected. For some reason not then ex.
planned, there was a sudden and extra
ordinary change of opinion against Gen.
Schuyler. lo .'9ia.t 81
About this period, some were for the
appointment of a Supreme Dictator
with all the powers conferred by the
Roman people A convention was to
be formed at Hartford, consisting of five
of the New England states and the state
of New York, for the purpose, among
other objects, of devising more efficient
measures for the supply Of the army.
Judge Hobart, Egbert Benson and Gen.
Schuyler were the delegates. 1T was,
for time contemplated, by the legisla-
ture, to give them instructions to pro-
pose, that dictator should be appointed,
for which, majority in the more pop
ular branch was believed to be favorable.
This mad project, as Col. Alex. Hamil-
ton designated it, was communicated to
him by Gen. Schuyler, in letter Of the
10th ofSept. 1850. .a "
The scheme was opposed with great
ardor and perseverance, by Geo. Clinton
L'Hommedieu L and others, but through
the influence of the former, the /" mad
project was defeated. Here again, the
party lines were drawn between Geo.
Clinton and Gen. Schuyler. From this
period until the adoption Of the Federal
Constitution, the Clinton and Schuyler
parties continued to exist. In the ranks
of the latter, there was great concert Of
action. On an examination ofthe legis-
lative journals from ITS to IT'S it will
be seen, that with Gen. Schuyler were
the Jays, the Livingstons, the Van Rem
sseIaers and the Bensons and they almost
uniformly voted together. And now of
the tories. In the year l779, some Of
them, who had removed from Albany
within the British lines, petitioned the
Legislature for leave to return, which Pc
tition was rejected. AT the same ses-
sion, an act was passed requ iring all
counsellors and attorneys, before they
could be permitted to practise in any
court, to produce evidence Of their
attachment to the liberty and indepen-
dence ofthe United States. On the goth
of Nov. 1851, special act was passed
in conformity with what was done in
l779. n ~ y AZ = "
Charles R Livingston in a letter to
John Jay, dated the 25th Of January
1854, speaks Of parties at that period,
sour parties are, first, the tories, who
still hope for power, under the idea that
the remembrance Of the past should be
forgotten, though they daily keep it up
by their ayowed attachment to Great
Britain; secondly, the violent wings, who
are for expelling all tories from the state,
in hopes BY that means to preserve the
powerin their own hands. The third
are, those who wish 70 suppress all vio-
lence, to soften the rigor Of the laws
against the royalists, and not to Danish
them from that social intercourse which
may by degrees, obliterate the remem-
brance Of past misdeeds." On the sth
Of March i7s4, Peter Yates and three
hundred others, petitionedthe Legislature
to prevent those persons who had joined
or remained with the enemy during, the.
late war, from returning, and topro-
hibit such as have remained, from being
eligible to any office Of profit or trust.
The same was passed. y
Chancellor Livingston in January,
1854. had said that there were 3 parties
in the state - ~
First, the tories; I'd, the, violent
wings Sd, those who wished to soften
the rigour Of the laws against the royal
lists" HID ,gaes.
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