A history of the state of New York, from the first discovery of the country to the present time: with a geographical account of the country, and a view of its original inhabitants, Part 35

Author: Eastman, Francis Smith, 1803-1846 or 7
Publication date: 1832
Publisher: New York, A. K. White
Number of Pages: 930


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IV. The congress may determine the time of choosing the elec- tors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.


V. No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty- five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.


VI. In case of the removal of the president from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties


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of the said office, the same shall devolve on the vice-president, and the congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, ·· resignation or inability, both of the president and vice-president, declaring what officer shall then act as president, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed, or a president shall be elected.


VII. The president shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased or diminished dur- ing the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.


VIII. Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation :


" I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States."


SECTION II.


I. The president shall be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States. He may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.


II. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur ; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the supreme court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herrin otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law. But the congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the president alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.


III. The president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate, by granting commis- sions, which shall expire at the end of their next session.


SECTION III.


He shall from time to time give to the congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such


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measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient, he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper ; he shall receive ambassadors and other public minis- ters ; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.


SECTION IV.


The president, vice-president, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and con- viction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.


ARTICLE III. SECTION I.


The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good be- havior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a com- pensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.


SECTION II.


I. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority ; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls ; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party ; to controversies between two or more states, between a state and citizens of another state, between citizens of different states, between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.


II. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction. In all other cases before mentioned, the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the congress shall make.


III. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trials shall be held in the state where the said crime shall have been committed; but when not committed


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within any state, the trial shall be at such place, or places, as the congress may by law liave directed.


SECTION III.


I. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.


II. The congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.


ARTICLE IV. SECTION I.


Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect -thereof.


SECTION II.


I. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.


II. A person charged in any state with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdic- tion of the crime.


III. No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such ser- vice or labor may be due.


SECTION III.


I. New states may be admitted by the congress into this Union, but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state ; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legis- latures of the states concerned as well as of the congress.


II. The congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other prop- erty belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this constitu-


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tion shall be so constructed as to prejudice any claims of the Unitod States, or of any particular state.


SECTION IV.


The United States shall guaranty to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against do- mestic violence.


ARTICLE V.


The congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this con stitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the congress : Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate.


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ARTICLE VI.


I. All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this constitution as under the confederation,


II. This constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thercof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.


III. The senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and ju- dicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required, as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.


ARTICLE VII.


The ratification of the conventions of nine states shall be suffi- cient for the establishment of this constitution between the states so ratifying the same.


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Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the states present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names.


New Hampshire,


Nicholas Gilman.


Massachusetts,


Rufus King.


Connecticut,


William Samuel Johnson,


New York,


Roger Sherman. Alexander Hamilton.


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William Livingston,


David Brearley,


New Jersey,


William Paterson,


Jonathan Dayton.


Benjamin Franklin,


Thomas Mifflin,


Robert Morris,


George Clymer,


Pennsylvania,


Thomas Fitzsimons,


Jared Ingersoll,


James Wilson,


Gouverneur Morris.


George Read,


Gunning Bedford, jun.,


Delaware,


John Dickinson,


Richard Bassett,


Jacob Broom.


James McHenry,


Maryland,


Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer,


Daniel Carroll.


John Blair,


James Madison, jun.


..


William Blount,


North Carolina,


Richard Dobbs Spaight, .


Hugh Williamson.


John Rutledge,


Charles C. Pinkney,


South Carolina,


Charles Pinkney,


Pierce Butler.


William Few,


Georgia,


Abraham Baldwin.


GEORGE WASHINGTON, President.


WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary.


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Virginia,


John Langdon,


S Nathaniel Gorham,


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AMENDMENTS.


The following amendments, having been adopted by three fourtha of the several states, now compose a part of the constitution Ten of these articles, having been presented by congress to the states in 1789, and subsequently ratified by three fourths of the states, were declared a part of the constitution in 1791. The thir- teenth was adopted in 1798; and the fourteenth in 1804.


ARTICLE I.


After the first enumeration required by the first article of the constitution, there shall be one representative for every thirty thou- sand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by congress, that there shall not be less than one hundred representatives, nor more than one representa tive for every forty thousand persons, until the number of represen- tatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred representatives, nor more than one representative for every fifty thousand persons.


ARTICLE II.


No law varying the compensation for the services of the senators and representatives shall take effect until an election of represen- tatives shall have intervened.


ARTICLE III.


Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of reli- gion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the free- dom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.


ARTICLE IV.


A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.


ARTICLE V.


No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a ma" her to be prescribed by law.


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ARTICLE VI.


The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall . not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable 'cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


ARTICLE VII.


No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise in- famous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor shall be compelled in any crim- inal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.


ARTICLE VIII.


In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the . nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him ; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.


ARTICLE IX.


In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall ex- 'ceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact, tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the com- mon law.


ARTICLE X.


Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.


ARTICLE XI.


The enumeration in the constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.


ARTICLE XII.


The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitu- tion, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.


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ARTICLE XIII.


The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.


ARTICLE XIV.


The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for president and vice-president, one of whom, at least; shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves ; they shall name, in their ballots, the person voted for as president, and, in dis- tinct ballots, the person voted for as vice-president, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as president, and of all persons voted for as vice-president, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the president of the senate. The president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person hav- ing the greatest number of votes for president shall be the presi- dent, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have such a majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as president, the house of representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the president. But in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the house of representatives shall not choose a president, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the vice-president shall act as presi- dent, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the president.


The person having the greatest number of votes as vice-president shall be the vice-president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a ma- jority, then, from the two highest numbers on the list, the senate shall choose the vice-president ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a ma . jority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.


But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice-president of the United States.


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ARTICLE XV.


If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain, any title of nobility or honor ; or shall, without the consent of congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emol- ument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them or either of them.


No. IV.


In 1784, Hugh White, esquire, removed with his family from Middletown, Connecticut, to Sedaghquate (now Whitesborough) which till then had been the gloomy abode of wild beasts and sav- age men. Judge White was the first who dared to overleap the German settlements on the Mohawk, and to encounter the hardships, privations and dangers of the western wilds. During the first four years of his establishment at Sedaghquate, the progress of the set- tlements around was slow and discouraging. In 1788, the town of German Flats was divided, and a new town established, which, in honor of this enterprising man, was named Whitestown.


Whitestown then contained less than 200 inhabitants; and in- cluded all that part of the state which now comprises the counties of Oneida, Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Madison, Chenango, Broome, Tioga, Cortlandt, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Ontario, Steuben, Allegliany, Genesce, Niagara, Cataraugus and Chatauque. Those counties, according to the census of 1810, at that time, con- tained 280,319 inhabitants .*


No. V.


List of the governors and lieutenant-governors of the colony and state of New York, with the time of their appointment.


DUTCH GOVERNORS.


Peter Minuit, . A. D. 1625.


Wouter Van Twiller, 1633


William Kieft,


1638.


Peter Stuyvesant,


1647.


Anthony Colve, governor during the temporary possession of


the Dutch, . from Oct. 1673 to Feb. 1674.


* Obituary notice of Judge White, published in, the Utica Patriot, 1812.


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ENGLISH GOVERNORS.


Richard Nichols, 1664.


Francis Lovelace, 1667.


Edward Andros, 1674.


Anthony Brockholst, 1681.


Thomas Dongan,


1682.


Francis Nicholson, lieut. 1688 ..


Jacob Leisler, 1689.


Henry Sloughter, 1691.


Richard Ingolsby, president, 1692.


Benjamin Fletcher, governor, 1692.


Richard earl of Bellomont,


1698.


John Nanfan, lieut. acted, 1701.


Lord Cornbury arrived,


1702


John, lord Lovelace, baron of Husley,


1708.


Richard Ingolsby, lieut. acted,


1709.


Gerandus Beekman, president,


1710.


Robert Hunter, governor,


1710.


Peter Schuyler, president,


1719.


William Burnet, governor,


1720.


James Montgomery, . 1728.


Rip Van Dam, president, 1731.


William Crosby, governor, 1732.


George Clarke, president, 1736.


Mr. Clarke soon after appointed lieutenant-governor, 1736.


George Clinton, 1743.


Danvers Osborn, . 1753.


James De Lancey, lieutenant-governor, 1753.


Sir Charles Hardy, governor, 1755.


James De Lancey, lieutenant-governor, 1757.


Cadwallader Colden, president, 1760.


Mr. Colden, appointed lieutenant-governor, 1761.


1762.


Robert Monckton, governor,


1763.


Mr. Colden, lieutenant-governor, 1765.


Henry Moore, governor, .


Mr. Colden, lieutenant-governor, 1769.


John earl of Dunmore, governor, 1770.


William Tryon, governor, 1771.


Mr. Colden, lieutenant-governor, acted, 1771.


William Tryon, governor, 1775.


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STATE GOVERNORS.


George Clinton, 1777.


.John Jay, . . 1795.


George Clinton, 1801.


Morgan Lewis,


1801.


Daniel D. Tompkins, 1807.


John Taylor, lieutenant-governor, 1817.


De Witt Clinton,


1817.


Joseph C. Yates,


1822


De Witt Clinton,


Nath'l Pitcher, lieutenant-governor from the death of Mr. 1824.


Clinton, Feb. 1828 to Jan. 1829


Martin Van Buren from January to March, vacancy by re-


signation,


, 1829.


Enos TTroop, lieutenant-governor, succeeded Mr. Van


Buren,


. March 1829.


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APPENDIX.


No. VI.


NOTES RESPECTING THE ENGRAVINGS.


THE portraits of Hamilton and Clinton are introduced, as it is believed every individual will wish to possess the linea- ments of these great men. -


The View near West Point, is esteemed one of the most beautiful scenes in this or any other country. It is rendered doubly interesting as being in the vicinity of the National Military Academy .- Every person who has passed up or down the Hudson has undoubtedly marked this spot. An engraving of it is therefore given, as being likely to recall a beautiful part of the scenery of this State, to the memory of many individuals.


The View of the Mountain House on the Kattskill moun- tains can need no apology. This place is the favourite re- sort of travellers during the summer, and is justly ranked among the most remarkable spots on the globe.


The Likeness of Mr. Van Buren can be no less accepta- ble at the present time. Holding one of the first stations under the General Government, and now ranked among the master spirits of the nation, it is no more than due to his high standing thus to give him a respectful notice in a history of his native State. A brief memoir is subjoined, which will exhibit the leading features of his biography. .


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LIFE OF MARTIN VAN BUREN.


MARTIN VAN BUREN was the second son of Abraham Van Buren of Kinderhook, in the county of Columbia, and State of New York. He was born at that place on the 5th of December, 1782. His parents were both of Dutch descent, and his ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Kinderhook.


In early life, Mr. Van Buren is said to have evinced indi- cations of superior talents; aside from this we know but little of his early history. About the age of fourteen, however, he entered the office of a respectable practitioner of the law at Kinderhook, and during his course of study, he spent some months in the office of William P. Van Ness, Esq. a distinguished Counsellor of the city of New York. The superior advantages which offered during his residence in that city, were eagerly embraced; apt in the attainment, and ardent in the pursuit of knowledge, he employed the few months he remained there in a diligent and profitable prosecution of his studies.


In 1803 he commenced the business of his profession in the place of his nativity; in November of that year, he was licensed as an attorney, and early in the year 1807 he was admitted as a counsellor, in the supreme court.


In the county in which Mr. Van Buren resided, the politi- cal party to which he was attached was at that time in the minority ;- he was without fortune, and almost without pat- ronage. Great political excitements were at the same time agitating the State, and he was of course an object of hostil- ity to the dominant party. But these circumstances to him


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were not appalling. He was an aspirant for distinction; and although he was at that time surrounded by a powerful array of talent at the bar, and in the field of political contro- versy, his own abilities enabled him to force his way through the fearful array of difficulties which were opposed to him; and it was not long before he was able to contend, on high and equal grounds, with the most formidable of his opponents. * During the year 1809, Mr. Van Buren removed to the city of Hudson, where he continued to reside until 1816. During his residence in that place, he attained high eminence at the bar, and dividing, with a distinguished and able advocate of Hudson, the business of their profession in the county, for several years; during which time, and notwithstanding their political collisions, a chivalric rivalry existed between the two champions at the bar, which was conducted in a spirit of unbounded liberality and confidence. In the meantime he was admitted to the higher courts, where he practised with success and reputation. In February, 1815, he was appoint- ed Attorney General of the State. This appointment, to- gether with an extending practice at the bar, induced him to remove to Albany, the year following; where he deservedly ranked high among the luminaries of his profession.


In 1812, he was for the first time a candidate for an election office; that of a State Senator for the then middle district. His opponent was Edward W. Livingston, Esq. a man of superior talents. Mr. Van Buren, however, was the success- ful candidate, after an arduous struggle on the part of his friends, and was elected by a majority of less than two hun- dred, out of twenty thousand votes.


In September, 1814, the legislature was convoked by the executive, with the view of aiding the administration in the prosecution of the war. Of the doings of this legislature, in addition to acts making appropriation of money, the most prominent were the acts "to authorise the raising of troops for the defence of the State," and to " encourage privateer- ing associations." These bills were each supported by Mr.


*In 1808, after the election of Mr. Tompkins as Governor, he was appointed surrogate of the county, an office which he held until Febry- ray, 1813, when he was removed.



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Van Buren and were both passed: but the first and most important was peculiarly his measure, it having been ma- tured and introduced by him.


In 1816 he was re-elected to the Senate, previous to which he had been appointed by the legislature as Regent of the University. He remained in the Senate till his term of service expired, which was in 1820.


From the commencement of Mr. Van Buren's legislative course to the close of it, he was a distinguished leader of his party, and was a decided supporter of measures connect- ed with the great interests of the State,-particularly of those plans of internal improvement, which have since con- ferred on the State by which they have been executed, such imperishable honor. In February, 1821, he was appoint- ed a Senator to the Congress of the United States.


In the interval between his appointment as a Senator, and the next session of Congress, a convention was held to amend the Constitution of the State. Mr. Van Buren, who had warmly advocated this measure, especially in reference to the extension of the right of suffrage, was unexpectedly returned to it by the republican electors of Otsego, as a mem- ber from that county, although he was at that time a resident of Albany .- His speeches on the various questions submit- ted to the convention, were published in the report of the proceedings of that body, and are among the ablest in the volume.


He took his seat in the Senate of the United States in December, 1821, and was re-elected in 1827 to the same station. In the Senate of the State he showed himself an able and sagacious legislator, and in the Senate of the Uni- ted States where his sphere of action was greatly extended, and the subjects of deliberation proportionably difficult and complicated, he displayed a reach and comprehension of intellect, a degree of practical wisdom and enlightened fore- cast, which entitle him to the appellation and honors of a statesman. As a ready and successful debater he had few superiors. Several of his speeches, particularly those in favor of the bill abolishing imprisonment for debt, and in


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support of the recent laws making provision for the officers of the revolution, have been ranked among the first speci- mens of eloquence ever heard in the Senate.


He took a leading part in the presidential election of 1824, and the canvass which preceded it, and gave Mr. Crawford his vigorous support.


With the electors of President and Vice-President for the State of New York, a Governor was also to be chosen to succeed the distinguished and lamented Clinton. Mr. Van Buren consented to become a candidate for the office, and was subsequently elected. He entered on the duties of this high trust, on the 1st of January, 1829, and on the 6th, transmitted to the legislature the annual message, a document equally creditable to the State and the author. He admin- istered the government until the 12th of March following, when he resigned in consequence of his appointment as Secretary of State of the United States. Resolutions ex- pressive of the " highest respect for his virtues and talents," and tendering to him the congratulations of the representa- tives of the people, with " their earnest wish, that he might enjoy a full measure of happiness and prosperity, in the new sphere of public duty to which he was about to be remor- ed," were passed by both branches of the legislature. The like sentiments were expressed, in terms still more flattering and affectionate, by a part of the members, who transmitted him a communication on the eve of his departure, in which, after expressing " their attachment to his person, their respect for his character, and their regret at the separation which was about to take place," they tendered him their acknowledgements, " for the numerous and important servi- ces which he had rendered to the State, particularly in sus- taining those political principles which they believed to be most intimately blended with its highest and dearest inter- ests."


Immediately after his resignation as Governor of New York, he repaired to the post assigned him by the President, since which he has arduously devoted himself to its labori- ous and important duties.


A TABLE


Exhibiting the nun.ber of Counties in the State of New York, and population by tbc Cens .: 6 of 1825, and the Census of 1830.


COUNTIES.


Population of Cou .ty in 18:25.


P. pu'ation of County in 183).


COUNTIES.


Popu'tion; Popu'tion of cou' ty of county in 1825 in 1830.


Albany,


42,821


53,560


Oneida,


57,847 71,326


Allegany,


18,164


26,218


Onondaigua,


48,435 58,974


Broome,


13,893


17,582


Ontario,


37,422 40,167


Cattaraugus,


8,6.13


16,726


Orange,


41,732 45,372


Cayuga,


42,743


47,947


Orleans,


14,460 18,773


Chautauque,


20,639


34,687


Oswego,


17,875 27,104


Chenango,


34,215


37,404


'Otsego,


47,898 51,372


Clinton,


14,436


19,344,


Putnam,


11,866 12,701


Columbia,


37,970


39,952


Queens,


20,331


22,276


Cortland,


20,271


23,693 Rensselear,


44,065 49,472


Delaware,


29,565


32,933


Richmond,


5,932


7,084


Dutchess,


46,698


50,926


Rockland,


8,016


9,388


Erie,


24,316


35,710


Saratoga,


36,295 38,616


Essex, -


15,993


19,387


Schenectady,


12,876 12,334


Franklin,


7,978


11,312


Schoharie,


25,926 27,904


Genesee, ·


40,906


51,992


Seneca,


20,169 21,031


Greene,


26,229


29,525


St. Lawrence, 27,595 36,352


Hamilton,


1,196


1,324


Steuben,


25,004 33,975


Herkimer,


33,040


35,869


Suffolk,


23,695 26,780


Jefferson,


41,650


48,515


Sullivan,


10,373 12,372


Kings,


14,679


20,539


Tioga,


19,951


27,706


Lewis,


11,669


14,958


Tompkins,


32,908 36,545


Livingston,


23,860


27,719


Ulster,


32,015 36,559


Madison,


35,646


39,037


Warren,


10,900 11,795


Monroe,


39,108


49,920


Washington,


39,280


42,615


Montgomery,


39,706


43,594


Wayne,


26,761 33,555


New York,


166,086


207,021 Westchester,


33,131|36,476


Niagara,


14,069


18,485|Yates,


17,450 19,019


Total,


1,616,458 | 1,923,522


1,616,458


Increase from 1825 to 1830.


307,064


Population of the State at various Periods.


1790 340,130


1820


1,372,812


1800


586,050


1825


1,616,453


1810


959,049


1830


1,923,522


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