. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . te from its Democratic an-chorage, and in the fall elections of 1812 the partysucceeded in controlling the House of Assemblyand Council and in electing Aaron Ogden gov-ernor. Then it was that the Federal leaders, imi-tating the tactics of the Massachusetts Democratsin 1811, introduced the famous Gerrymanderinto New Jersey politics. Resorting to legisla-tion, every effort was made to sustain the partyin power. Foreseeing the probabilities of Demo-cratic success, a Federal Legislature on October29, 1812, passed an act direc
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . te from its Democratic an-chorage, and in the fall elections of 1812 the partysucceeded in controlling the House of Assemblyand Council and in electing Aaron Ogden gov-ernor. Then it was that the Federal leaders, imi-tating the tactics of the Massachusetts Democratsin 1811, introduced the famous Gerrymanderinto New Jersey politics. Resorting to legisla-tion, every effort was made to sustain the partyin power. Foreseeing the probabilities of Demo-cratic success, a Federal Legislature on October29, 1812, passed an act directing that elect-ors for President and Vice-President of theUnited States should be appointed in jointmeeting of Council and Assembly, and uponthe 7th of November enacted that representativesin Congress should be elected by districts, twomembers to each district. This statute createdthree districts: one composed of the Counties ofBergen, Sussex, Essex, and Morris, the second em-bracing the Counties of Middlesex, Monmouth,Somerset, and Hunterdon, and the third the Coun-. Q OtfdtwU, , tlflh XOV4VUOI of Now i£l2-13; o. Elizabethtown Deo. 3, 176«; great-graad-eon of Jonathan Ogden, one of the original aflBCCiateeof Ifco Ellzabethtown purchase: grad. Princeton Col-lego 1773 ; lawyer; Joined the Continental army TT77 :fifth president of the Society of the Cincinnati i*R8V 8 Benator 18M ; d Jersey City. April 19. 18*. 88 NEW JERSEY AS A COL ties of Burlington, Gloucester, Cape May, Cum-berland, and Salem. The Democrats were loud in their protests, de-claring that both acts were unconstitutional, andthe State was vastly stirred, a condition by nomeans alleviated by reason of the declarations ofthe legislative attitude of the Federalists of NewJersey concerning the war. Upon the 10th ofNovember, immediately following the passage ofthe gerrymander, the House of Assembly boldlydenounced the continuance of the struggle, declar-ing that a great, prosperous, and happy nation,without p
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