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]	[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]	[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]
[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]	[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 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. 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.

A POLITICAL HISTORY
OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK

BY
DeALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER, A.M.
Member of Congress, Formerly United States Attorney
for the Northern District of New York

Vol. I
1774-1832

[Volume I Contents]

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1906

CONTENTS