2508. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1824), Sectionalism in.—
Who is to be the next
President? * * * The question will be ultimately
reduced to the northernmost and southernmost
candidate. The former will get every
federal vote in the Union, and many republicans;
the latter, all of those denominated of
the old school; for you are not to believe that
these two parties are amalgamated, that the lion
and the lamb are lying down together.—
To Marquis Lafayette. Washington ed. vii, 325.
Ford ed., x, 280.
(M.
1823)
