. Rise of the new West, 1819-1829. ed on by the House of Representatives. In the country as a whole, Jackson received99 electoral votes, Adams 84, Crawford 41, and Clay37. For the vice-presidency, Calhoun was chosenby a vote of 182, while Sanford, of New York,received the vote of Ohio, together with a portionof that of Kentucky and New York; Virginia votedfor Macon, of North Carolina ; Georgia for VanBuren; and scattering votes were given for Jacksonand Clay. No presidential candidate had a ma-jority, and, in accordance with the Constitution, theHouse of Representatives was to decide between t
. Rise of the new West, 1819-1829. ed on by the House of Representatives. In the country as a whole, Jackson received99 electoral votes, Adams 84, Crawford 41, and Clay37. For the vice-presidency, Calhoun was chosenby a vote of 182, while Sanford, of New York,received the vote of Ohio, together with a portionof that of Kentucky and New York; Virginia votedfor Macon, of North Carolina ; Georgia for VanBuren; and scattering votes were given for Jacksonand Clay. No presidential candidate had a ma-jority, and, in accordance with the Constitution, theHouse of Representatives was to decide between thethree highest candidates. To Clay, powerful in Congress, fell the bitterhonor of deciding between his rivals. Jackson hada decisive plurality of the electoral vote, and even ^ N. Y. American, December 3, 1824; iV. Y. Com. Adv., De-cember 14, 1824; Weed, Autobiography, 128, is in error; L. , Clay in Elec. of 1824 (MS. thesis). Sargent, Public Men and Events, I., 67; Niles Register,XXVII., 257; Adams, Memoirs, VI., 1825] PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 261 the Kentucky legislature, under the dominance ofthe relief party, urged the representatives fromthat state to cast their vote in his favor.^ Butalthough Jackson was popular in the west. Clayhad long been hostile to the candidacy of this mili-tary chieftain, and could not well alter his , Clays presidential ambitions stood inthe way of this choice. It would not have beeneasy for him to become Jacksons successor, bothbecause of the difficulty of electing two successivecandidates from the west and because Calhounhad already anticipated him in the alliance. WithCrawford, he was on better terms; but that candi-date was clearly in the minority, his health wasgravely impaired, and his following was made uplargely of the opponents of the policies which Clayrepresented. He determined, therefore, to use his Influence inbehalf of Adams—the rival who had borne awayfrom him the secretaryship of state and whose for
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