by Desmond Dilg
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By the old method all the candidates were nominated for the Presidency and he who received the second largest number of votes became Vice President.
[*] See “Life of John Adams”—See also “The Conqueror” by Mrs. Atherton.
[*] See Parton and other “Lives of Jefferson,” also “Jefferson at Monticello,” by the Revd. H. W. Pierson, D. D. Scribner, New York, 1862, page 110, etc. Also the newspapers of the time.
[*] Mrs. Reynolds was a very charming young woman whose husband had been given lucrative employment in the Treasury Department by its then chief-General Hamilton. The “affair” was discovered by Callander (Jefferson’s Editor) and trumpeted abroad as a sensational scandal; the object being to destroy Hamilton’s probable candidature for the Presidency in 1800. In explanation, Hamilton published a pamphlet confessing his “wickedness” in humble tones. This very remarkable brochure may be read in any of Hamilton’s collected writings. In it he says, on page 3. “The charge against me is in connection with one James Reynolds, for purposes of improper pecuniary speculation in Military Pensions. * * * My real crime is an amorous connection with his wife for a considerable time, with his privity and connivance. * * * Reynolds is an obscure and profligate man.”
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Count Volney. Celebrated author of “The Ruins of Empires.”
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The Indian name for New York. It means “the place-of-the-getting-drunk.” It’s original native owners have all been killed off and rooted out.