stility of Tam., 180-5;
nominated lt.-gov., 181;
lavish style of living, 183;
wealth of wife, 183;
income as mayor, 183;
Irish friends, 183;
lack of tact, 184;
ready to defeat Tompkins, 184;
desertion of friends, 184-5;
elected lt.-gov., 185;
opposes charter of Merchants' Bank, 189;
silent as to Bank of America, 196;
estrangement of Spencer, 197;
seeks nomination for President, 199;
fitness for, 200;
nominated by Legislature, 201;
opposition to, 201-2;
Granger supports, 202;
opposed by Tompkins, 201;
by Rufus King, 203-6;
supported by Federalists, 204-8;
campaign managed by Van Buren, 206-10;
defeated for President, 210;
reasons for, 210;
King's election to U.S. Senate, 211-2;
not renominated for lt.-gov., 212;
attacks Tompkins and Taylor, 213;
retains mayoralty, 213;
Riker his enemy, 218;
refused a command in War of 1812, 221;
patriotic devotion, 221;
removed from the mayoralty, 235;
record as mayor, 235;
canal com., 242-3;
early efforts as, 243;
in retirement, 243;
begins correspondence with Post, 243;
plan for canal, 244;
heads new commission, 245;
friendship with Spencer renewed, 245;
brother-in-law of Spencer, 245;
cand. for gov., 245;
reports on cost of canals, 246-7;
supported by Federalists for gov., 1817, 247-8;
pictures Van Buren, 250;
nominated for gov., 1817, 250;
elected, 252;
inaugurated, 252;
began work on canal, 252;
at zenith of fame, 253;
lacked politician's art, 254, 257;
refused reconciliation with Young, 254;
believed Republican party would divide, 254-5;
refused to appoint Federalists, 255;
dismissed Tam. office holders, 255;
rivals of, 255;
character of messages, 256;
bolts party caucus, 257-60;
not a reformer, 260;
crippled in power, 261;
loss of canal patronage, 261;
sly methods of, 268;
removes Bucktails from office, 273;
calls Van Buren "arch scoundrel," 273;
hesitates to remove him, 274;
renominated for gov., 279;
without organisation, 279;
confident of election, 281;
elected, 281;
protests against Federal patronage, 283-4;
green-bag message, 285;
vituperative allusions to Van Buren, 286, note;
fails to defeat Van Buren for U.S. senator, 287;
trapped into opposing the constitutional con., 1821, 296;
friends without influence in con., 298;
not renominated for gov., 1822, 312;
reasons for, 314-5;
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