A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3

by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

[225] Southwick received 2910 out of a total of 131,403 votes cast.—Civil List, State of New York (1887), p. 166.

[226] Governors Speeches, Aug. 2, 1824, p. 218.

[227] DeWitt Clinton's Letters to Henry Post, in Harper's Magazine, Vol. 50, p. 568.

[228] Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, p. 109.

[229] Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, p. 110.

[230] Ibid., p. 114.

[231] Ibid., p. 113.

[232] DeWitt Clinton's Letters to Henry Post, in Harper's Magazine, Vol. 50, p. 569. Clinton seems to have taken a particular dislike to Henry Wheaton. Elsewhere, he writes to Post: "There is but one opinion about Wheaton, and that is that he is a pitiful scoundrel."—Ibid., p. 417.

[233] Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, p. 120.

[234] DeWitt Clinton, 103,452; Samuel Young, 87,093.—Civil List, State of New York (1887), p. 166.