They appoint electors by the two Houses voting together. In New York all
depends on the success of the city election, which is of twelve members,
and of course makes a difference of twenty-four, which is sufficient to
make the two Houses, joined together, republican in their vote. Governor
Clinton, General Gates, and some other old revolutionary characters,
have been put on the republican ticket. Burr, Livingston, &c. entertain
no doubt on the event of that election. Still these are the ideas of the
republicans only in these three States, and we must make great allowance
for their sanguine views. Upon the whole, I consider it as rather more
doubtful than the last election, in which I was not deceived in more
than a vote or two. If Pennsylvania votes, then either Jersey or New
York giving a republican vote, decides the election. If Pennsylvania
does not vote, then New York determines the election. In any event,
we may say that if the city election of New York is in favor of the
republican ticket, the issue will be republican; if the federal ticket
for the city of New York prevails, the probabilities will be in favor
of a federal issue, because it would then require a republican vote both
from Jersey and Pennsylvania to preponderate against New York, on which
we could not count with any confidence.
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