. History of the state of New York, political and governmental;. wassuperior to personal preferment, and the Governorsvision was keener and his judgment was sounder thanthe Presidents. Tompkins declined the flatteringinvitation, on the ground that he could serve thenation and incidentally the administration more effi-ciently as Governor of New York than as Secretaryof State. In that he was quite right. The crisis ofthe war was at hand, and New York held the key to thenational position. If it stood firm in support of thegovernment, New England disaffection would berestrained by an impassable ba
. History of the state of New York, political and governmental;. wassuperior to personal preferment, and the Governorsvision was keener and his judgment was sounder thanthe Presidents. Tompkins declined the flatteringinvitation, on the ground that he could serve thenation and incidentally the administration more effi-ciently as Governor of New York than as Secretaryof State. In that he was quite right. The crisis ofthe war was at hand, and New York held the key to thenational position. If it stood firm in support of thegovernment, New England disaffection would berestrained by an impassable barrier. If New Yorkjoined the Hartford extremists against prosecution ofthe war, chaos yawned in the foreground of the Tompkins remained at Albany, and New Yorkremained true to the Union; and a little later camenews of the treaty of Ghent. There were in our second war with Great Britainmany heroes in the American navy. There were a fewheroes in the American army. The one resplendenthero of our civil life was the Governor of New York,Daniel D. Ambrose Spencer Ambrose Spencer, jurist; born in Salisbury, Conn., Decem-ber 13, 1765; city clerk of Hudson, N. Y., 1786-93; member ofassembly, 1794; state senate, 1796-1802; assistant state at-torney general, 1796; attorney general, 1802-4; justice supremecourt, 1804-19; regent, 1805; chief justice, 1819-23; memberof congress, 1829-31; mayor of Albany, 1824-26; died in Lyons,N. Y., March 13, 1848. 1815] TOMPKINSS THIRD TERM 369 The special session of the Thirty-eighth Legislatureadjourned on October 24, 1814, and the regular sessionbegan on January 31, 1815. The Assembly beingstrongly Democratic, a new Council of Appointmentwas promptly elected, of that political faith, its mem-bers being Jonathan Dayton of the Southern, LucasElmendorff of the Middle, Ruggles Hubbard of theEastern, and Farrand Stranahan of the Western dis-trict. They were all Democrats, and the party behindthem was, as was years afterward remarked of an
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