Clinton, DeWitt (1769-1828) to Michael Lieb
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02505.09 Author/Creator: Clinton, DeWitt (1769-1828) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 19 December 1806 Pagination: 1 p. : address ; 32.3 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses publishing Mr. Coleman's public apology for insulting Dr. Lieb since his recent prosecution. Mentions the danger of Federalism mixing with Quiddism in Pennsylvania.
Clinton was Mayor of New York City. Among his efforts during his 10 terms was the promotion of public education, city planning, public sanitation, and relief for the poor. As mayor, Clinton also held office as state senator (1806-1811) and lieutenant governor (1811-1813). Quids were an extreme states' rights group of Jeffersonian Republicans led by John Randolph of Virginia. Feeling that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had retreated from the states' rights position they had taken in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and that they had in fact become nationalists, the Quids tried to deprive Madison of the Democratic-Republican presidential nomination in 1808.
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