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1819 May 20

do in effect nominate to all the important offices in North America.
Thus, we already see combinations formed, and interests arising on which
the future Government of the Confederacy may depend more than on
the forms of election, or the Letter of its present laws.

'About the year 1738, the father of Samuel Adams, and twenty others
who lived in the North or shipping part of Boston, used to meet, to make
a Caucus, and lay their plan for introducing certain persons into places
of trust. Each distributed the ballots in his own circle, and they generally
carried the Election. In this manner Mr. S. Adams first became
representative for Boston. – Caucusing means Electioneering'. – 1. Gordon,
Hist. Am. Revol. p.216, Note. London 1788.

It is conjecture, that as this practice originated in the shipping part
of Boston, 'Caucus' was a Corruption of Caulkers Meeting. – For this information
we are indebted to Pickering's American Vocabulary (Boston 1816),
a modest and sensible Book, of which the principal fault is, that the
Author ascribes too much importance to some English Writers, who are
not objects of much reverence to a near observer. Mr. Pickering's volume,
however, deserves a place in English libraries. –

Identifier: | JB/109/077/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1819-05-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	47 continued, 47a
Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
Folio number	077	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E11
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	35732
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