. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . f the House fromBurlington voted for Mr. Vroom. The vote thusstood forty-two to thirteen. Upon the 29th of Oc-tober, 1830, and the 28th of October, 1831, was reelected without opposition. The election for governor held upon the 20th ofOctober, 1832, resulted in the choice of Samuel As the first representative of the new-ly-formed Whig party Mr. Southard defeated hisonly antagonist, Peter D. Vroom. The formergovernor had solid delegations from the Countiesof Bergen, Somerset, Sussex, Warren, and Hunter
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . f the House fromBurlington voted for Mr. Vroom. The vote thusstood forty-two to thirteen. Upon the 29th of Oc-tober, 1830, and the 28th of October, 1831, was reelected without opposition. The election for governor held upon the 20th ofOctober, 1832, resulted in the choice of Samuel As the first representative of the new-ly-formed Whig party Mr. Southard defeated hisonly antagonist, Peter D. Vroom. The formergovernor had solid delegations from the Countiesof Bergen, Somerset, Sussex, Warren, and Hunter-don, with a member of Council and one of fourmembers of the House from Monmouth vote in Mr. Southards favor was forty totwenty-four. During the few short months of GovernorSouthards occupancy of the chair he communi-cated to the Legislature the South Carolina Nul-lification Ordinance, upon which subject he con-curred in the views of President Jackson, forwhom he had a high personal regard, but fearedthe effect of his violent passions. This fear was ••i. )80 NEW JERSEY AS A COL expressed in Governor Southards message to theLegislature, in which, treating upon PresidentJacksons bitter hostility toward the act of SouthCarolina, he regretted expressions which mightbe regarded as personal invective. The resignation of Mr. Southard, upon February27, 1833, to accept the United States senatorshipbrought forward three candidates for the succes-sion. They were Elias P. Seeley, Cornelius , and Joseph W. Scott. While thesecandidates had attained distinction none had se-cured the conspicuous positions occupied by theirpredecessors. In the vote taken upon the 27th ofFebruary, 1833, Elias P. Seeley, the Whig candi-date, secured thirty members, Hardenberghtwenty-one, and Scott eight. The Hardenberghvote was obtained from solid delegations from theCounties of Bergen, Somerset, Sussex, Warren(except one member of the House), and Hunter-don (except the member of Counc
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