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The population of the city was then but thirty-five thousand, and only a few families at the head of which were the Schuylers, the Livingstons, the Van Rensselaers, and the Morrises constituted what is called "Society," which was much more ceremonious than at the present day, and more exclusive.
The Miss Livingstons have inquired in a very friendly manner about you, and expect you will wait upon them when you pass this way. Since I have been here, I have had an opportunity of removing entirely the suspicion they had of your courting Miss De Visme. They believe nothing of it now, and attribute your visits at Paramus to motives of friendship for Mrs. Prevost and the family.
Is not this the manner in which they are divided?" "With some limitations, sir. All the De Lanceys, with most of their strong connections and influence, are with us with the king, I mean while all the Livingstons and Morrises are against us. The other families are divided as with the Cortlandts, Schuylers, and Rensselaers. It is fortunate for the Patroon, that he is a boy."
Burr was defeated by a majority of seven thousand votes; and New England, which had hoped, with the help of a man who was at war with all the powerful families of New York, Schuylers, Livingstons, and Clintons at the head of them, to break down the oligarchy of which it had been jealous for nearly a century, deserted the politician promptly.
The anti-Federalists were crushed, no longer of dignity as a party, although with ample resources for obstruction and annoyance. The country, after an interval of rejoicing, had settled down to another period of hope and anxiety. And Hamilton had incurred the dislike of Adams and the hostility of the Livingstons.
In these pages it is obviously impossible to mention every Scot who has achieved distinction to do so would require a large biographical dictionary. We can here only select a few names in each class from early colonial times to the present day. The most famous family of Colonial times was that of the Livingstons of Livingston Manor, famed alike for their ability and their patriotism.
You are as high-handed and arrogant as Lucifer himself; and generally you win, but not always. Burr has seen his first chance for political preferment, and seized it with a cunning which I almost admire. He has persuaded both the Livingstons and the Clintons that here is their chance to pull you down, and he is only too willing to be the instrument the wretched little mole!
"The greater honor due them," I retorted. "Honor! Fol-de-rol! Had it been any other patroon but me, he'd turn his manor-house into a court-house, arrest 'em, try 'em, and hang a few for luck! In the old days, I'll warrant you, the Cosbys would have stood no such nonsense no, nor the Livingstons, nor the Van Cortlandts.
Here are your Alexanders and Heathcotes, your Morris's and Kennedies, de Lanceys and Livingstons, filling the Council and the legislative halls; but we find few of the Van Rensselaers, Van Courtlandts, Van Schuylers, Stuyvesants, Van Beekmans, and Van Beverouts, in their natural stations. All nations and religions have precedency, in the royal favor, over the children of the Patriarchs.
The Livingstons were not less distinguished as federalists, until some time after the organization of the general government under the new constitution.
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