Suggestions on Presidential Elections: With Particular Reference to a Letter of William C. Somerville, Esq. (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Suggestions on Presidential Elections: With Particular Reference to a Letter of William C. Somerville, Esq.

I do not entirel concur in the objections of Mr. Somerville, nor o the Federalist, to a choice of electors by the State Legislatures under certain regulations; but this is a question into which I shall nut enter, for the main feature of the plan which has some months existed in my mind, and which I intended: at a convenient day to make public, is to map of at once the whole system cf electors. Let there be no go-betweens in the case. The people Wish to proceed directly to their object, and to know Who they are voting for - not as a proxy, but as Pres silent. In fact, they do not Wel understand this complicated machinery of electors. I do not believe that there is one Voter out of fifty in new-england, 'who knows or wishes to know any thing about it. The only question at the late election was, what ticket must I put in for Adams, or what for Craw hrd There was no inquiry about the opinions or pretensions of the electors.

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