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.

General Van Cortlandt ardently supported Mr. Clinton; but Governor Tomjikins, though unwilling to be regarded as inimical to him, yet felt himself bound to support Mr. Madison as the representative not only of the national Democracy, but of the measures which Congress had adopted for the maintenance of the national honor. But Mr. Clinton would allow of no half-way support. The consequence was that the difference soon shaped itself in the State as between these two favorite citizens, and it needed but little time to prove that the largest sympathies were with the farmer's boy, as the Governor was styled. Mr. Tompkins is described as a man of much more than ordinary intellectual strength and culture, but is better remembered for a cordiality and kindliness of manner that gave him great acceptablenesa and influence in his public and private relations. In the year 181.5 Mr. Jonathan Ward, who had represented ^Westchester County in the State Senate, was sent as