Vermont 1818 U.S. House of Representatives

Office:
U.S. House of Representatives (Federal)
Title:
U.S. Congressman
Jurisdiction:
Federal
Label:
Vermont 1818 U.S. House of Representatives
Date:
1818
State:
Vermont
Type:
General
Iteration:
First Ballot
Office/Role:
U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Congressman
Candidates:
Charles Rich, Mark Richards, William Strong, Samuel C. Crafts, Ezra Meach, Rollin C. Mallary, William A. Griswold, Orsamus C. Merrill, John Peck, David Edmond, Horace Everett, Phineas White, Richard Skinner, Elias Keyes, Asa Lyon, Samuel Prentiss, John Mattocks, Chauncey Langdon, Daniel Chipman, Charles K. Williams, William Chamberlain, Heman Allen, William Hunter, Levi Barnard, Charles Marsh, Daniel Farrand, Gamaliel Painter, Martin Chittenden, Phineas Smith, Aaron Leland, Ezra Butler, Pliny Smith, Asa Aldis, Truman Chittenden, Uriel C. Hatch, Martin Field, Beriah Loomis, William Page, George Robinson, William C. Crafts, Horatio Seymour, Richard Sherman, Timothy Stanley, William A. Volmer, Zerah Willoby, Heman Allen, Lemuel Whitney, D.A.A. Buck, Isaac Clark, Theophilus Crawford, Samuel Elliot, Horace Ellis, William Everett, David Fay, Samuel Fey, Sanford Gadcomb, William Hall, Thomas Hammond, J. H. Hubbard, J. Tarbox, William Meach, Gideon Olin, John Pearl, Benjamin Prentiss, Moses Robinson, Denison Smith, Phineas Strong, Abel Tomlinson, George E. Wales, Ezra White, scattering
Candidates: Charles Rich[1]Mark Richards[2]William Strong[3]Samuel C. Crafts[4]Ezra Meach[5]Rollin C. Mallary[6]William A. GriswoldOrsamus C. MerrillJohn PeckDavid EdmondHorace EverettPhineas WhiteRichard SkinnerElias KeyesAsa LyonSamuel PrentissJohn MattocksChauncey LangdonDaniel ChipmanCharles K. WilliamsWilliam ChamberlainHeman Allen[7]William HunterLevi BarnardCharles MarshDaniel FarrandGamaliel PainterMartin ChittendenPhineas SmithAaron LelandEzra ButlerPliny SmithAsa AldisTruman ChittendenUriel C. HatchMartin FieldBeriah LoomisWilliam PageGeorge RobinsonWilliam C. CraftsHoratio SeymourRichard ShermanTimothy StanleyWilliam A. VolmerZerah WillobyHeman Allen[8]Lemuel WhitneyD.A.A. BuckIsaac ClarkTheophilus CrawfordSamuel ElliotHorace EllisWilliam EverettDavid FaySamuel FeySanford GadcombWilliam HallThomas HammondJ. H. HubbardJ. TarboxWilliam MeachGideon OlinJohn PearlBenjamin PrentissMoses RobinsonDenison SmithPhineas StrongAbel TomlinsonGeorge E. WalesEzra Whitescattering
Affiliation:RepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistRepublicanFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistRepublicanFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistFederalistRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanFederalistFederalistRepublicanFederalistRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanRepublicanFederalist
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Notes:

[1]Elected.
[2]Elected.
[3]Elected.
[4]Elected.
[5]Elected.
[6]Elected.
[7]Of Milton.
[8]Of Colchester.
[9]The Original Election Returns tally sheet uses the name Pinehas for Phineas White.
[10]Orsamus Cook Merrill is referred to in some sources as Orasmus.
[11]Some sources use the spelling Mallory for Rollin Carolus Mallary and Meech for Ezra Meach.
[12]The Original Election Returns tally sheet of aggregate vote totals, The National Standard (Middlebury, VT), October 21, The Northern Sentinel (Burlington, VT), October 16, North Star (Danville, VT), October 16, The Christian Messenger (Middlebury, VT), October 21, The Vermont Republican and American Yeoman (Windsor, VT), October 19, The Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT), October 19, list 13635 votes for Charles Rich, 13518 votes for Mark Richards, 13174 votes for William Strong, 10996 votes for Samuel C. Crafts, 10239 votes for Ezra Meach, 6908 votes for William A. Griswald, 6955 votes for Orasmus C. Merrill, 6879 votes for Rollin C. Mallary, 6582 votes for John Peck, 4616 votes for David Edmond, 4596 votes for Horace Everett, 4572 votes for Phineas White and 3551 votes for Richard Skinner.
[13]The National Intelligencer (Washington, DC) October 26, reports 6902 votes for William A. Griswold and 4574 votes for Phineas White.
[14]The Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, VA), reports 6902 votes for William A. Griswold.
[15]The Vermont Intelligencer, and Bellows Falls Advertiser (Bellows Falls, VT), October 19, reports 4615 votes for Phineas White.
[16]The Rutland Vermont Herald (Rutland, VT), October 20, reports 6585 votes for John Peck.
[17]United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997 -- The Official Results reports 13527 votes for Mark Richards, 10240 votes for Ezra Meach, 4713 votes for David Edmond and 4657 votes for Horace Everett.
[18]Orsamus C. Merrill was declared to be the winner of Vermont's sixth at-large congressional seat. However, Rollin C. Mallary petitioned the United States House Committee on Elections and successfully contested the election. Merrill served in Congress until January 12, 1820. Mallary was seated in his place on January 13, 1820.
[19]The Rise of Cornelius Peter Van Ness 1782-1826: "[Cornelius P.] Van Ness, not satisfied with the ticket nominated [for Congress] by the legislative caucus of 1817, which supported only two of the incumbents, backed the four who were willing to run again, one of the new caucus candidates, and Ezra Meech, the choice of a caucus in the Burlington area. Of the three places contested, the Van Ness men won two comfortably, and by controlling the canvassing committee, threw out enough votes to return the sixth, Congressman Orsamus C. Merrill. The pretext that the rejected ballots had been printed was overruled by the Congressional Committee on elections. That gave William A. Griswold of Danville the sixth highest number of votes, but he was not there to claim his seat. Rollin C. Mallory of Poultney, seventh, won the place by default."
[20]The Northern Sentinel (Burlington, VT), October 16, North Star (Danville, VT), October 16, The Vermont Republican and American Yeoman (Windsor, VT), October 19, The Vermont Intelligencer, and Bellows Falls Advertiser (Bellows Falls, VT), October 19, The Rutland Vermont Herald (Rutland, VT), October 20 and Christian Messenger (Middlebury, VT), October 21: "PRINTED VOTES. On canvassing the votes for Gov. etc. the present session, it was found that a considerable number of the votes were printed. A question arose before the canvassing committee, whether by the constitution they could be counted--considerable debate arose--but on examining the constitution, it was decided by a large majority, to reject the printed votes."
[21]The Rutland Vermont Herald (Rutland, VT), September 8: "THE ELECTION, which took place in this state on Tuesday last, has terminated in favour of the republican ticket for state officers, without opposition.--An increased number of republican representatives is also elected to the state legislature. The result of the congressional ticket is uncertain. Our returns of votes are chiefly confined to a major part of the towns in this county; but we learn verbally, that, with the exception of a considerable proportion of the counties of Franklin, Chittenden and Bennington, the republican convention ticket has generally prevailed over the mongrel and opposition tickets. In the county of Windsor, we have heard from only a few towns. Those few, however, by a steady adherence to correct principles, have shown their detestation of quidism and disorganization. It would be astonishing, after the hostile stand taken by the Windsor presses against the real republicans of the state--their refusal to publish any thing unfavorable to the views of the junto--or even the names of the republican candidates for congress--and all this under the pretext of 'commiseration,' and a 'pure' wish to discountenance the doings of a 'corrupt caucus'--if many of the good citizens of that county, were not led into error. We shall therefore expect to find that in some eastern, as well as northern and southern towns, a majority has been given for the opposition ticket. In Rutland county, republicans have spoken a language that cannot be misunderstood. Their former firmness remains unshaken. Returns from 19 towns given below, show, that while the convention ticket has received the suffrages of nearly 2200 freemen, only 33 have been found the advocates of disunion! Mr. Meech, it is true, has received a trifling support; but this was among federalists. If he is elected, the latter may consider it as a triumph of their own. Republicans have not effected it."
[22]The Rutland Vermont Herald (Rutland, VT), September 15: "THE ELECTION. ... The Windsor Republican fears, 'owing to the unhappy disagreement between the republicans of Rutland county and those of the other counties of the state,' that two federalists will be elected members of congress. Thus it appears that deception is to be the order of the day in the retreat, as it was during the recent charge; for, after having been the first, and indeed the only ones to attempt a division--after having lavished the most wicked abuse upon the republican members of the last legislature--and after having palmed upon the people innumerable falsehoods--the 'steam boat' projectors and their sattelites, finding that their plans have partly if not wholly failed, now wish to shield themselves under 'the unhappy disagreement between the republicans of Rutland county and those of the other counties of the state.' This 'between,' as it happens, does not exist. The republicans of Rutland county disclaim any disagreement 'between' themselves and their other brethren. They have courted no quarrels--they have not deviated from former customs--they have barely defended themselves against the foul aspersions of a few unprincipled demagogues, whose views need only be known to be despised; and whose influence, indeed, has proved only momentary. For we are assured from unquestionable authority, that since the election, the utmost dissatisfaction prevails in many of the northern and southern towns, where the steam-boat tickets were supported. No. 2, it is said, in many instances, was palmed upon the people, as the one actually nominated by the convention; and the freeemen are now bitterly denouncing the authors of this imposition. Thus it is that political as well as other turpitude, is generally sooner or later discovered. When vice is stript of its covering, the people have nothing to fear. Had the oppositionists, in the late election, commenced the publication of their tickets and essays at an earlier period, so that time had been given to exhibit facts to the people, pitiful, indeed, would have been the numbers of their proselytes. Then, they would have found, that the 'disagreement' was 'between' themselves and the sovereign people."
[23]The record of votes cast Goshen was not delivered to the state's canvassing committee. This came to light after Rollin C. Mallary petitioned Congress claiming that he, not Orsamus C. Merrill, won the sixth Congressional seat for Vermont. The votes from Goshen were then entered into the total vote count.
[24]Report of the U.S. House Committee on Elections: "In Goshen 27 votes were given for the Petitioner and one vote for the sitting member. The certificate of the Election was made in due form and recorded in the town clerk's office. The original was, according to law, delivered to the Representative of the Town to the General Assembly whose duty it was to deliver it to the canvassing committee. For some cause which does not appear he neglected to attend the General Assembly and did not send it by a Representative of an adjoining town because (as he alledges) such representative left home for the General Assembly at an earlier day than usual--the certificate still remaining in his possession. It is the opinion of the Committee of Elections that the petitioner ought not to be deprived of the votes of this town by reason of the circumstances above mentioned."
[25]The votes for Charles Rich and Rollin C. Mallary in Woodbury were not counted in the original canvass. They were restored after Mallary petitioned Congress claiming that he, not Orsamus C. Merrill, won the sixth Congressional seat for Vermont.
[26]Fifty-six votes each for Pliny Smith, Theophilus Crawford and Thomas Hammond appear on the Original Election Returns tally sheet but have not been listed here.
[27]Report of the U.S. House Committee on Elections: "In the Town of Woodbury 56 votes were given for the Petitioner and a record thereof was duly made in the Town Clerk's office, but in the certificate sent to the canvassing committee through the mistake of the presiding officer, the names of Rollin C. Mallary and Charles Rich were omitted and the names of Pliny Smith, Theophilus Crawford and Thomas Hammond who were candidates for the office of Councillors of the State of Vermont but in whose favour not one vote was given for Representatives to Congress, were inserted.--The Committee are of the opinion that the error ought to be corrected more especially as there exists a record, the verity of which is not impeached, by which the correction can be made."
[28]The votes from Mansfield were rejected by the state canvassing committee because there was not sufficient information in the certificate delivered to the committee. They were restored after Mallary petitioned Congress claiming that he, not Orsamus C. Merrill, won the sixth Congressional seat for Vermont.
[29]There were no votes recorded in Granby.
[30]In 1818, the town of Huntsburgh was renamed Franklin.
[31]Georgia Town Records lists 109 votes for Charles Rich, 110 votes for Mark Richards, 115 votes for Ezra Meach, 1 vote for William Griswold and does not have any vote count for Horace Everett or Phineas White.
[32]The Original Election Returns does not list the vote for Ezra Butler that is listed in the Georgia Town Records.
[33]The Original Election Returns lists Mark Richards with a total of 1364 votes in Orange County; however, the sum of totals per town is 1374.
[34]The Original Election Returns lists 11 votes for John Mattocks in Orleans County; however, the sum of totals per town is 13.
[35]There were no votes recorded in Eden.
[36]One vote for Orsamus Merrill in Greensborough has been added to the total for Orsamus C. Merrill.
[37]There were no votes recorded in Troy.
[38]The votes from Fairhaven were rejected by the state canvassing committee because the certificate of votes had not been properly sealed. However, the U.S. House of Representatives committee on elections, which reviewed the election in the wake of Rollin C. Mallary's petition to be seated, ruled that these votes should be included in the canvass.
[39]Middletown Town Records divides the votes for Elias Keyes into 14 for Elias Keyes and one for Keyes with no first name.
[40]The votes from Berlin were rejected because they had been certified as votes for Councillors rather than votes for representatives to Congress. They were restored after Rollin C. Mallary petitioned Congress claiming that he, not Orsamus C. Merrill, won the sixth Congressional seat for Vermont.
[41]There were no votes recorded in Moretown.
[42]There were no votes recorded in Worcester.
[43]There were no votes recorded in Acton.
[44]There were no votes recorded in Brookline.
[45]Sixty-one votes for Horace Leverett in Dummerston have been added to the total for Horace Everett.
[46]The votes from Wardsboro were, according to the Original Election Returns, "rejected for want of a seal." They were restored after Rollin C. Mallary petitioned Congress claiming that he, not Orsamus C. Merrill, won the sixth Congressional seat for Vermont.
[47]There were no votes recorded in Baltimore.
[48]The votes from Plymouth were rejected by the state canvassing committee because the certificate prepared by the town's officer was not written up according to formal standards. However, the U.S. House of Representatives committee on elections, which reviewed the election in the wake of Rollin C. Mallary's petition to be seated, ruled that these votes should be included in the canvass.
[49]The votes for William Chamberlain, Theophilus Crawford, Thomas Hammond, Abel Tomlinson, Daniel Chipman, Horace Ellis, Benjamin Prentiss, David Fay, Phineas Smith, Aaron Leland and George Robinson do not appear in the Original Election Returns but are in the Royalton Town Records.
[50]There were no votes recorded in Weston.

References:

Original Election Returns. Vermont State Archives, Middlesex.
Fayston Town Records.
Georgia Town Records.
Halifax Town Records.
Hardwick Town Records.
Jamaica Town Records.
Kellyvale Town Records.
Mansfield Town Records.
Middletown Town Records.
Montpelier Town Records.
Plainfield Town Records.
Royalton Town Records.
Saint Johnsbury Town Records.
Somerset Town Records.
Wardsboro Town Records.
Petition by Rollin C. Mallary to the U.S. House Committee on Elections. National Archives, Washington, DC.
Report of the U.S. House Committee on Elections on the 1818 contested election for Representative in Vermont. National Archives, Washington, DC.
North Star (Danville, VT). September 4, 1818.
Northern Sentinel (Burlington, VT). September 4, 1818.
Rutland Vermont Herald (Rutland, VT). September 8, 1818.
North Star (Danville, VT). September 11, 1818.
Rutland Vermont Herald (Rutland, VT). September 15, 1818.
North Star (Danville, VT). September 18, 1818.
North Star (Danville, VT). September 25, 1818.
North Star (Danville, VT). October 16, 1818.
Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT). October 19, 1818.
Vermont Republican and American Yeoman (Windsor, VT). October 19, 1818.
Rutland Vermont Herald (Rutland, VT). October 20, 1818.
Christian Messenger (Middlebury, VT). October 21, 1818.
National Standard (Middlebury, VT). October 21, 1818.
National Intelligencer (Washington, DC). October 26, 1818.
Vermont Intelligencer, and Bellows Falls Advertiser (Bellows Falls, VT). October 26, 1818.
Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, VA). October 30, 1818.
The Rutland Vermont Herald (Rutland, VT). August 1, 1820.
Bassett, T. D. Seymour. "The Rise of Cornelius Peter Van Ness 1782-1826". Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society X, no. 1. (March 1942). 15-16.
Graffagnino, J. Kevin. "'I saw the ruin all around' and 'A comical spot you may depend': Orasmus C. Merrill, Rollin C. Mallary and the Disputed Congressional Election of 1818". Vermont History 49. (Summer 1981). 159-168.

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