[166] "This unusual unanimity among the New York Republicans pointed to a growing jealousy of Virginia, which threatened to end in revival of the old alliance between New York and New England."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 6, p. 215. "George Clinton, who had yielded unwillingly to Jefferson, held Madison in contempt."—Ibid., Vol. 4, p. 227.
[167] "No canvass for the Presidency was ever less creditable than that of DeWitt Clinton in 1812. Seeking war votes for the reason that he favoured more vigorous prosecution of the war; asking support from peace Republicans because Madison had plunged the country into war without preparation; bargaining for Federalist votes as the price of bringing about a peace; or coquetting with all parties in the atmosphere of bribery in bank charters—Clinton strove to make up a majority which had no element of union but himself and money."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 6, p. 410.
[168] Rufus King, Life and Correspondence, Vol. 5, p. 269.
[169] Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 271.
[170] Rufus King, Life and Correspondence, Vol. 5, p. 281.
[171] Rufus King, Life and Correspondence, Vol. 5, pp. 281-4.
[172] Ibid., Vol. 5, p. 283.
[173] William Allen Butler, Address on Martin Van Buren (1862).
[174] "DeWitt Clinton was classed by most persons as a reckless political gambler, but Martin Van Buren, when he intrigued, preferred to intrigue upon the strongest side. Yet one feeling was natural to every New York politician, whether a Clinton or a Livingston, Burrite, Federalist, or Republican,—all equally disliked Virginia; and this innate jealousy gave to the career of Martin Van Buren for forty years a bias which perplexed his contemporaries, and stood in singular contradiction to the soft and supple nature he seemed in all else to show."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 6, pp. 409, 410.
[175] Jefferson to Madison, Nov. 5, 1812; Jefferson MSS. Series V., Vol. XV.