onvention, that James Merril, Esq. urged some of that
convention to place Samuel Young Esq. on their ticket, and
offered one hundred _dollars_ if they would _go halves_ with
Young's friends in the _ticket_ they should run at the then
next election, for the purpose of defraying the expences of
the election; and that the said Merrill took from his pocket
the _hundred, dollars_, and laid it on the table for that
purpose, as I understood it.--HENRY STAFFORD. _Saratoga
Springs, March 1816_."

"I, Joseph Ogden, of Malta in the county of Saratoga, do
hereby certify; that I was at the inn of James Jones in
Halfmoon, a few days after the election of 1815, and Aaron
Morehouse of Ballston, and a leading federalist of Halfmoon
were there, conversing together on the late election. Mr.
Morehouse said he voted for Mr. Hamilton, the federal
candidate, to get a federalist in his town to vote for Mr.
Young; and the federal replied, that be voted for Mr. Young,
and that it was the understanding among some of the
federalists and _some_ of the republicans in Halfmoon, that
the federals should vote for Mr. Young, and that the
republicans should vote for Mr. Hamilton. Mr. Isaac Kellogg,
jun. was present at the same time.--JOSEPH OGDEN."

"I, Isaac Kellogg, Jun. of Malta in the county of Saratoga,
do certify, that I was present and heard a part of the
conversation above stated by Joseph Ogden, and remember
hearing Mr. Morehouse state, that he voted for Mr. Hamilton,
and the abovementioned federalist say that he voted for Mr.
Young. I also heard another federalist of Halfmoon then
present, say that he voted for Mr. Young also; and I
distinctly understood from them, that there had been an
understanding between the federalists and Mr. Young's
friends, to support Mr. Young and Mr. Hamilton as members of
Assembly.--ISAAC KELLOGG, jun."

It is also a fact, that Young's supporters did in two or three of the
towns _hide_ and _suppress_ the tickets printed by direction of the
county convention, for Mr. Cowen and the other candidates.

These certificates and these facts serve then to explain how Mr. Young
came by a greater number of _votes_ than Mr. Cowen;--and no doubt is
left on this subject when on calculating from the _returns_, you
perceive that the _votes_ for Mr. Young and Mr. Cowen