The election in the fall of 1822 was one of those sweeping, crushing victories that precede a radical change; and the confidence with which the victors used their power hurried on the revolution prophesied in Clinton's clever letter to Post.
He describes the significant political shift that occurred during the election of 1822.
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Thus far Conkling's success had been as unexpected as it was dazzling.
People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist.
Its attitude was strong, defiant, and its only purpose apparently was to create a public sentiment hostile to the extension of slavery.
This Administration cannot now save this Union, if it would.
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