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

A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

CHAPTER I

A COLONY BECOMES A STATE

On the 16th of May, 1776, the second Continental Congress, preparing
the way for the Decla