New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . nedby Jerseymen, whose officers were Jerseymen, inshort a corporation organized by and for the in-terests of the State. The railroad had been con-structed at great expense, it had revolutionizedmethods of transportation, was quick to grasp anynew and useful invention tending to increasespeed, or provide for the safety and comfort of itspassengers. The anti-monopolists contendedthat the railroad had entered every field of polit-ical activity, had extended, if not practically intro-duced, the use of money in elections, nation
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . nedby Jerseymen, whose officers were Jerseymen, inshort a corporation organized by and for the in-terests of the State. The railroad had been con-structed at great expense, it had revolutionizedmethods of transportation, was quick to grasp anynew and useful invention tending to increasespeed, or provide for the safety and comfort of itspassengers. The anti-monopolists contendedthat the railroad had entered every field of polit-ical activity, had extended, if not practically intro-duced, the use of money in elections, , and local, had distributed official positionsamong its favorites, creating a great machine,and by throttling competition had prevented pos-sible corporations from reducing rates charged forconveying passengers and freights. The State and national elections in the autumnof 1844 had resulted in the triumph of the Jersey had cast her seven electoral votes forHenry Clay, of Kentucky, and Theodore Freling-huysen, of New Jersey. For President Clays ma-. ^^t^y^JTiyCfrx^At—-i^J^^f^^- 388 NEW JEK8EY AS A COL joiity hi New Jersey was eight hundred and twen-ty-tliree. In this election the nomination of Theo-dore Frelinghuysen had stirred the people ofthe State. His unostentatious piety, his powersas an orator, his excellent judgment, had madehim a conspicuous figure in State life. Servingas attorney-general of New Jersey and as UnitedStates senator, he had later become chancellor ofthe University of New York, and had been reliedupon to sustain the Whig cause in the East, par-ticularly as the Democratic administration hadbecome unpopular. Owing to the industrial de-pression in 1837 and its extremely serious conse-quences, coupled with the restiveness of the peo-ple of the State, New Jersey had in the election of183G cast her vote for William Ilenry Harrisonand Francis Granger, Whig candidates for Presi-dent and Vice-President of the United action had been
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