History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
It is certain also that the Vice-President, George Clinton, did not apitrove of the "Act." But notwithstanding their dissatisfaction, these gentlemen still adhered to their party affinities, and by their course, no doubt, greatly counteracted the tendency of these measures to produce political changes among their followers in New York. So their columns seem not to have seriously wavered in Westchester County at the next Senatorial election, when the Southern District, which lay in New York City, Long Island, Staten Island and Westchester County, elected both the Republican candidates. In the selection of Presidential electors, which soon followed, the fact that the difference on this point in the party was regarded of no moment is apparent in the concession i>f six votes to George Clinton, one of whom in all likelihood was Mr. White, of Westchester County. The Embargo bill was repealed before the close of Mr. Jefferson's administration, and in place of it was enacted what has been entitled " the Non-intercourse Law," which f(>rbade both importation and exportation. This change, in connection with fresh evidences of English animosity, seems to have had the effect to intensify the national feeling, and the consequence was, in 1810, an overwhelming defeat of the Federalists in all portions of the State. But the divisions in the Republican party that succeeded this victory gave their opponents the opportunity in the Presidential contest two years after to decide to which of the Republican candidates should fall the vote of the State, and the suffrages were given to De Witt Clinton. Mr. Madison was, however, re-elected.