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A POLITICAL HISTORY
OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK
BY
DeALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER, A.M., LL.D.
Member of Congress, Formerly United States Attorney
for the Northern District of New York
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1906 and 1909
CONTENTS
VOL. I
CHAPTER PAGE I. A Colony Becomes a State. 1774-1776 1 II. Making a State Constitution. 1777 8 III. George Clinton Elected Governor. 1777 17 IV. Clinton and Hamilton. 1783-1789 23 V. George Clinton's Fourth Term. 1789-1792 37 VI. George Clinton Defeats John Jay. 1792-1795 50 VII. Recognition of Earnest Men. 1795-1800 64 VIII. Overthrow of the Federalists. 1798-1800 78 IX. Mistakes of Hamilton and Burr. 1800 94 X. John Jay and DeWitt Clinton. 1800 107 XI. Spoils and Broils of Victory. 1801-1803 115 XII. Defeat of Burr and Death of Hamilton. 1804 129 XIII. The Clintons Against the Livingstons. 1804-1807
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class="pgexternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">147 XIV. Daniel D. Tompkins and DeWitt Clinton. 1807-1810 158 XV. Tompkins Defeats Jonas Platt. 1810 173 XVI. DeWitt Clinton and Tammany. 1789-1811 180 XVII. Banks and Bribery. 1791-1812 186 XVIII. Clinton and the Presidency. 1812 199 XIX. Quarrels and Rivalries. 1813 211 XX. A Great War Governor. 1812-1815 219 XXI. Clinton Overthrown. 1815 231 XXII. Clinton's Rise To Power. 1815-1817 241 XXIII. Bucktail and Clintonian. 1817-1819 253 XXIV. Re-election of Rufus King. 1819-1820 263 XXV. Tompkins' Last Contest. 1820 273 XXVI. The Albany Regency. 1820-1822 283 XXVII. Third Constitutional Convention. 1821 295 XXVIII. Second Fall of DeWitt Clinton. 1822 312 XXIX. Clinton again in the Saddle. 1823-1824 321 XXX. Van Buren Encounters Weed. 1824
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class="right">334 XXXI. Clinton's Coalition With Van Buren. 1825-1828 344 XXXII. Van Buren Elected Governor. 1828 357 XXXIII. William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed. 1830 370 XXXIV. Van Buren's Enemies Make Him Vice President. 1829-1832 382 XXXV. Formation of the Whig Party. 1831-1834 392
VOL. II
CHAPTER PAGE I. Van Buren and Abolition. 1833-1837 1 II. Seward Elected Governor. 1836-1838 15 III. The Defeat of Van Buren for President. 1840 31 IV. Humiliation of the Whigs. 1841-1842 47 V. Democrats Divide into Factions. 1842-1844 56 VI. Van Buren Defeated at Baltimore. 1844 65 VII. Silas Wright and Millard Fillmore. 1844 76 VIII. The Rise of John Young. 1845-1846 90 IX. Fourth Constitutional Convention. 1846 103 X. Defeat and Death of Silas Wright. 1846-1847 114
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XI. The Free-Soil Campaign. 1847-1848 129 XII. Seward Splits the Whig Party. 1849-1850 145 XIII. The Whigs' Waterloo. 1850-1852 159 XIV. The Hards and the Softs. 1853 180 XV. A Breaking-up of Party Ties. 1854 190 XVI. Formation of the Republican Party. 1854-1855 205 XVII. First Republican Governor. 1856 222 XVIII. The Irrepressible Conflict. 1857-1858 243 XIX. Seward's Bid for the Presidency. 1859-1860 256 XX. Dean Richmond's Leadership at Charleston. 1860 270 XXI. Seward Defeated at Chicago. 1860 281 XXII. New York's Control at Baltimore. 1860 294 XXIII. Raymond, Greeley, and Weed. 1860 305 XXIV. Fight of the Fusionists. 1860 324 XXV. Greeley, Weed, and Secession. 1860-1861 334 XXVI. Seymour and the Peace Democrats. 1860-1861 346 XXVII. Weed's Revenge Upon Greeley. 1861
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">361 XXVIII. Lincoln, Seward, and the Union. 1860-1861 367 XXIX. The Weed Machine Crippled. 1861 388
VOL. III
CHAPTER PAGE I. The Uprising of the North. 1861 1 II. New Party Alignments. 1861 13 III. "The Mad Desperation of Reaction." 1862 31 IV. Thurlow Weed Trims His Sails. 1863 53 V. Governor Seymour and President Lincoln. 1863 61 VI. Seymour Rebuked. 1863 73 VII. Strife of Radical and Conservative. 1864 84 VIII. Seymour's Presidential Fever. 1864 98 IX. Fenton Defeats Seymour. 1864 115 X. A Complete Change of Policy. 1865 127 XI. Raymond Champions the President. 1866 136 XII. Hoffman Defeated, Conkling Promoted. 1866 150 XIII. The Rise of Tweedism. 1867 172 XIV. Seymour and
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Hoffman. 1868 189 XV. The State Carried by Fraud. 1868 208 XVI. Influence of Money in Senatorial Elections. 1869 219 XVII. Tweed Controls the State. 1869-70 223 XVIII. Conkling Defeats Fenton. 1870 232 XIX. Tweed Wins and Falls. 1870 240 XX. Conkling Punishes Greeley. 1871 250 XXI. Tilden Crushes Tammany. 1871 265 XXII. Greeley Nominated for President. 1872 276 XXIII. Defeat and Death of Greeley. 1872 291 XXIV. Tilden Destroys His Opponents. 1873-4 305 XXV. Rivalry of Tilden and Conkling. 1875 321 XXVI. Defeat of the Republican Machine. 1876 332 XXVII. Tilden One Vote Short. 1876 340 XXVIII. Conkling and Curtis at Rochester. 1877 358 XXIX. The Tilden Régime Routed. 1877 378 XXX. Greenbackers Serve Republicans. 1878 389 XXXI.
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class="smcap">Removal of Arthur and Cornell. 1878-9 399 XXXII. John Kelly Elects Cornell. 1879 411 XXXIII. Stalwart and Half-breed. 1880 428 XXXIV. Tilden, Kelly, and Defeat. 1880 447 XXXV. Conkling Down and Out. 1881 464 XXXVI. Cleveland's Enormous Majority. 1881-2 483
INDEX
Transcriber's Notes
Inconsistent spellings and hyphenations such as "re-election" and "reëlection" have been conformed, and obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
The original contains an index in Volume II covering Volumes I and II. Volume III, which was published later, contains an index covering all three volumes. Therefore, the Volume II index has been omitted.
The original of Volume III refers to both "Appleton's Encyclopedia" and "Appleton's Cyclopædia." The correct title, as used in Volumes I and II, is "Appleton's Cyclopædia" and has been corrected in Volume III.