Albany: 1801, folio, one printed page of a bi-folium, folded, docketed on verso, and addressed to “Gen Jacob Morris Butternuts”, bottom edge of first leaf torn away, not affecting text, some separations and tears along folds and fold joints, foredge slightly chipped and ruffled, light toning to text, else good.
Samuel Stringer was chairman of the Corresponding Committee
of the Federal Republican Citizens of Albany, and the circular is datelined “Committee-Room,
Albany, 20th April, 1801”. The circular was mailed on April 22, 1801
to Gen. Jacob Morris at Butternuts, now Morris, New York (named after him), and
received on the 24th.
Stringer writes, in the first paragraph, of the work done on
behalf of the Federalist candidates in the various districts of the state,
Eastern, Western and Middle, and their electoral prospects in each.
He continues in the second paragraph:
“The rapid stride of Democracy and Jacobinism throughout
most parts of the Union is truly alarming, and calls for a union of sentiment
in those good Citizens who possess correct political sentiments in making a
firm and decided stand against the many-headed Monster which threatens
destruction to our Country’s best interests. The success of the Election of Mr.
Van Rensselaer and Mr. Watson is a circumstance with which this object is
essentially connected, and the event must determine whether this State is to be
ranked with those in favor of Order and good Government – or to form a link in
the chain of Democracy and Disorganivation. – This Committee are faithfully and
zealously employed in the support of their just and honorable principles, and
of the election of their virtuous and respectable Candidates: This they will
unremittingly continue to do until the close of the Election…”
This Federalist ticket was defeated by the
Democratic-Republican candidates George Clinton and Jeremiah Van Rensselaer.
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