Elections 1796

1796 Elections

The Presidential election in 1796 was a vehement labour by the Federalists and Republicans for political ascendency and the command of the government. The candidates were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the last cited having left the cabinet at the close of 1793. Every apply to the passions that party rancor could create, was employed. Adet, the French minister, who had did well Fouchet, imprudently handed out an inflammatory address to the American persons, in which he ascribed the management of Washington with violations of the companionship that had lived between the United States and France; and ...