But the fact that Jay carried legislative districts in which Republicans sent DeWitt Clinton and Ambrose Spencer to the Senate, would indicate that confidence in Jay, if not dislike of Livingston, had been the principal factor in this sweeping victory.
This indicates that Jay's popularity played a significant role in the election outcome, overshadowing Livingston's candidacy.
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No, Sirs! we know very little of the art of war, and General Scott a great deal.
The absence of violent democratic innovations was the Constitution's remarkable feature.
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people, until he fancies himself commissioned by heaven to liberate them.
Its attitude was strong, defiant, and its only purpose apparently was to create a public sentiment hostile to the extension of slavery.
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