Public Men And Events From The Commencement Of Mr. Monroe's Administration, In 1817, To The Close Of Mr

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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... open convention,--every delegate acting responsibly and according to the will of his constituents. Not so the fact. He submitted himself to the convention; the convention delivered him to a committee; the committee disposed of him in a back chamber. It devised a process for getting at a result which is a curiosity in the chapter of ingenious inventions,--which is a study for the complication of its machinery,--a model contrivance of the few to govern the many,--a secure way to produce an intended result without showing the design, and without leaving a trace behind to show what was done; and of which none but itself can be its own delineator. After copying the sleight-of-hand contrivance to effect a result the tricksters dared not openly avow, Colonel Benton continues: Here is a process through multiplied nitrations by which the popular sentiment is to be deduced from the masses, collected in little streams, then united in one swelling current and poured into the hall of the convention,--no one seeing the source or course of any one of the streams. Algebra and alchemy must have been laid under contribution to work out a quotient from such a combination of signs and symbols. But it was done. Those who set the sum could work it; and the quotient was political death to Mr. Clay. The first ballot in the committee of States, the nearest expression of the true feeling of the convention obtained at any time, though this was far from being a true one, was as follows: Clay.--Rhode Island, 4; Connecticut, 8; Delaware, 3; Maryland, 10; Virginia, 23; North Carolina, 15; Kentucky, 14; Illinois, 5; Alabama, 7; Louisiana, 5; Mississippi, 4; Missouri, 4. Total, 102. Harrison.--Maine, 10; New Hampshire, 7; Massachusetts, 14; Pennsylvania, 30; Ohio, 21; Indiana, 9. Tota...

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