[41] Id., pp. 320-321.
[42] The Influence of the Erie Canal upon the population along its course, bearing the imprint of the University of Wisconsin, 1901.
[43] Hammond, Political History of New York, vol. ii, pp. 369, 378. McMaster, History of U.S., vol. v, p. 109.
[44] Freeman’s Journal, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, September 20, 1830, p. 2, c. 2.
[45] Freeman’s Journal, August 16, 1830, p. 2, c. 6. Seward, Autobiography of W. H. Seward from 1801 to 1834, p. 78.
[46] Hammond, Political History of New York, vol. ii, p. 396.
[47] Hammond, Political History of New York, vol. ii, p. 397.
[48] Jenkins, Political History of New York, p. 363.
[49] The following counties sent petitions to the Legislature: Tioga, Steuben, Yates, Ontario, Wayne, Cayuga, Seneca, Tompkins, Chenango, Broome, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Herkimer, Lewis, Jefferson, and Chautauqua. (Laws of the State of New York, relative to Erie and Champlain canals, 1825, i, pp. 279-281.)
[50] This fact is supported by Mr. Jenkins in his Political History of New York. He says: “Mr. Granger received a very heavy vote in the sixth and eighth districts; and it is probable his friends had confidently expected that the Chenango canal interests would secure his election. “The sixth Senatorial district to which the feeling in favor of the Chenango canal was mainly confined, gave Mr. Granger more than 2,000 majority. Notwithstanding it had given 6,000 the other way in 1829.” The majority for Mr. Granger in the eighth district was nearly 13,000.