Gen. King's agency in behalf of Madison The following curiosity, picked up in the street at New York has been handed us for publication. ; At a convention of the Republican committee, acting under the authority of the General Committee of Correspondence, appointed by the Republican members of the Legislature of the state of New-York, to promote the election of the Honorable De Witt Clinton to the presidency of the United States at the ensuing election, held at the city of New-York, the 13th day of October, 1812 (s.n, 1812)
"Resolved, that the above proceedings of this committee be forwarded to confidential Republican friends in the different states ... Wm. W. Gilbert [and twelve others]. - Extract from the minutes of the Republican committee, including a letter dated Albany, September 26, 1812, from Ambrose Spencer and John Tayler to Richard Riker, Esq., introducing Gen. [Cyrus?] King of Massachusetts and urging that Clinton withdraw himself as a candidate for the presidency, and the reply by Richard Riker, dated New-York, October 7, 1812, endorsing the continued candidacy of Clinton. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 25503. - Text printed in two columns