New York State during this period we find a complicated problem. In the election of 1830 there were two important parties. Summing up the principles for which these two important political parties of New York stood in this election, we find that the Anti-Masonic or National Republican party opposed the Masonic order;[1] supported Clay's American policy of protection and the extension of the internal improvement system;[2] catered to the workingmen[3] and opposed the administration of both the national and state government. In other words it was like all new parties, gathering to its fold all the radical elements by adopting some of their ideas.[4] In the campaign which followed they made an aggressive canvass, making the most of the Morgan outrage. The Republican, or
- ↑ Hammond, Political History of New York, vol. ii, pp. 369, 378. McMaster, History of U.S., vol. v, p. 109.
- ↑ Freeman's Journal, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, September 20, 1830, p. 2, c. 2.
- ↑ Freeman's Journal, August 16, 1830, p. 2, c. 6. Seward, Autobiography of W. H. Seward from 1801 to 1834, p. 78.
- ↑ Hammond, Political History of New York, vol. ii, p. 396.
