2462. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1800), Appointments and.—
If the [choice] falls on
me, I shall be embarrassed by finding the offices
vacant, which cannot be even temporarily
filled but with the advice of the Senate, and
that body is called on the fourth of March,
when it is impossible for the new members of
Kentucky, Georgia, and South Carolina to receive
notice in time to be here. * * * If
the difficulties of the election, therefore, are
got over, there are more and more behind, until
new elections shall have regenerated the constituted
authorities.—
To Tench Coxe. Washington ed. iv, 352.
Ford ed., vii, 488.
(W.
Feb. 1801)
