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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 79

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from Rhode Island were instructed to vote against the bill, as the state did not believe her debts had been properly apportioned. When the bill came before the senate both senators obeyed instructions. By 1800 the political parties of the state were strongly arrayed against each other. Adams carried the state by a majority of 300 but Stanton was elected by a vote of 2292 to 1443 for Thomas Noyes, federalist. In 1802 he received a majority of 1000 votes and in 1804 was reelected without opposition. He urged amending the constitution to elections of president and vice presidents. He upheld Jefferson in his views in regard to the purchase of Louisiana and considered the embargo the proper means of averting war. Later he advocated the gunboat scheme. He said in his argument that
 
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