The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-07-14

as already stated, Mr.. Jefferson becam
Vice President. Mr.. Adams, it will b
seen, came within two votes of beinI
placed at the very head Of the long lis
of disappointed Presidency seekers
Two Southern electoral votes alone save'
him from having that disagreeable po
sition forced upon him. ga singh
voice in Virginia" says his grandson
and biographer, "and one in Nortl
Carolina, prompted by the lingering
memory of revolutionary services, has
turned the scale. Had these been givei
to Mr.. Jefferson instead, he would hav'
been President. South Carolina, on TIN
other hand, steady to neither party
manifested the same sectional biaI
which has ever since marked her policy
this was written in 1866 by dividing
her votes between Mr.. Jefferson and Mr.
Pinckney." 1t was New England tha
defeated Gen. Pinckney, for she gave
eighteen votes against him, which not
only placed him third on the list ol
candidates, but more than neutralized
the support he got in South Carolina.
| He gained a vote in Pennsylvania, but
lost three In Maryland. Had eleven OF
the eighteen New England votes that
were given for Ellsworth, Jay and others
been given for Pinckney, he would have
been chosen to the Vice Presidency, as
he would have had seventy votes, or two
more than were given for Mr.. Jefferson,
and one less than the number received
by Mr.. Adams. OF the sixteen votes OF
Massachusetts, thirteen were given for
Pinckney.
President Adams failed of q reelection
in 1800-1S01, and SO he must be set
down as semi-disappointed aspirant
and Mr.. Jefferson himself came very
near being placed on the roll of such
aspirants. He and Col. Burr, who were
on the Democratic ticket, received the
same number of votes (73), and 80 no
man was chosen to the Presidency, as the
Constitution then stood, and the elec-
ton devolved upon the House of Repre-
sentatives. After balloting for week,
the House elected Mr.. Jefferson, and
Col. Burr became Vice President. Had
one of the New York electors withheld
his vote from Jefferson, Burr would have
been chosen to the Presidency by 73
votes to 72. Burr was the first of the
disappointed Democratic aspirants to
the Presidency and his ruin-which
has been pronounced "the profoundest
and most striking, with more of moral
circumstance in it than that of almost
any other man was owing, not to his
vices, political or personal, or both, but
to the incident that he permitted him.
self to be run against Jefferson in the
House of Representatives. Yet his con-
duct, though it may not have been hon.
orable toward his own party, was in
strict accord with the requirements of
the Constitution and the laws. He had
as good right to be candidate in the
House of Representatives as Mr.. Jeffer-
son possessed-exactly the same right
and had he been chosen, he would have
been entitled to the same treatment as
Mr.. Jefferson received. But it is not
the less true that the Jeffersonian party
contemplated his overthrow by resort
to arms had he been chosen, though they
spoke of their violent intention as if it
had reference to action that the FEEDER
alists might have taken had the House
failed to elect any one to the Presi-
dency.
The election of 1904 saw three Presi-
dental aspirants, who were to be dead
failures, on the two tickets. President
Jefferson was renominated for q second
term and reelected. OF the 176 electo-
raj votes, he received all but fourteen,
so low had the Federalists fallen. The
fourteen votes were given for Gen.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South
Carolina, elder brother of Thomas Pinck-
ney, and very distinguished actor in
the revolutionary contest. He had been
on the ticket with President John
Adams in 1900, the anti Adams Federal
lists hoping to make him President, and
making no disguise as to their views
but he ran one vote behind Mr.. Adams,
which was given for John Jay, by q
Rhode Island elector. Thus he became
the Federalist candidate in 1904, but he
took nothing by his nomination. Rufus
King was on the ticket with him, as the
candidate for the Vice Presidency, and
obtained the same support, or fourteen
votes, which were given by Connecticut
and Delaware and by two Maryland cleo
tors. The Democrats had removed Col.
Burr from their ticket, and their new
nominee for the second Office was George
Clinton, of New York, long Governor of
that State, and the most influential man
in it. He received the same number Of
votes that were given for Mr.. Jefferson.
In 1908 there were number of aspi-
rants for the Presidency. Mr.. Jefferson,
who had resolved to retire, wished to be
succeeded by his Secretary of State, Mr..
Madison but Jane Monroes thought
he had "claims" on the Democratic
party, and he and his friends were very
restive. George Clinton wished to pro-
ceed, as Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Jefferson
had proceeded, from the Vice Presidency
TO the Presidency and New York sup
ported his claims. But everything had
to yield to the iron will of Jefferson
and Clinton ran again for the second
place under Madison. The Federalists
put up their ticket of 1904, Pinckney
and King, and more than trebled the vote
they had secured for it in the earlier
year. Pinckney and King received AZ
votes and Mr.. Madison had 122 votes,
and George Clinton 113. Quite num-
Der of Democratic votes for the Vice
Presidency were diverted from Clinton,
nine being given for John Langdon, of
New Hampshire, three for Mr.. Madison,
and three for Mr.. Monroe. Six of the
New York electors would not vote for
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