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 * "Thank Heaven!" wrote Dallas to Gallatin, in October, "our election is over! The violence of Duane has produced a fatal division.  He seems determined to destroy the Republican standing and usefulness of every man who does not bend to his will.  He has attacked me as the author of an address which I never saw till it was in the press.  He menaces the Governor; you have already felt his lash; and I think there is reason for Mr. Jefferson himself to apprehend that the spirit of Callender survives."

A struggle took place over the re-election of Leib to Congress, which the "Aurora" carried by a few hundred votes. Republicans of Dallas's kind, who would not support Lieb, were nicknamed "Quids" by Duane, after the tertium quid, which was worth not even a name. At least three fourths of the Republican party followed the "Aurora," and left the "Quids" in the solitude of deserted leaders.

Jefferson's social relations were wholly with Gallatin, McKean, and Dallas, but his political strength depended on the popular vote, which followed Duane and Leib. At one moment he wanted to reason with Duane, but by Gallatin's advice gave up this idea. At length he temporized, became neutral, and left Gallatin and Dallas to their own resources.


 * "I see with infinite pain," he wrote to Dr. Logan, "the bloody schism which has taken place among our friends in Pennsylvania and New York, and will probably take place in other States. The main body of both