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Two years before the presidential election of 1824, Craw- 
ford, Clay, Clinton, Adams, Calhoun, and Jackson movements 
were on foot in the Northwest.^^ The Jackson candidacy did 
not get well under way until the spring of 1824 when the 
National Republican (Cincinnati) left Clinton for Jackson, 
and the Western Sun (Vincennes) changed its advocacy of 
Crawford to ardent support for Jackson. Adams electors had 
been named by members of the Ohio legislature in February, 
and he received the support of many who favored a northern, 
non-slaveholding candidate. Altho the slavery issue threat- 
ened for a time to play an important part in the campaign, 
it was soon overshadowed by the tariff, internal improve- 
ments, and Andrew Jackson. In 1824 it was the hero of 
New Orleans and the Indian fighter, the champion of the 
uncontaminated frontier democracy, the man with “a char- 
acter for honor, integrity, and purity of motive, sacred to 
Americans and spotless in the rolls of fame” who rose above 
principles and issues. In Indiana and Illinois it seemed to be 
Jackson against the field, but in Ohio, Clay, personally popular 
and strong because of his tariff and internal improvements 
program, offered a contest. In the election Clay carried that 
state by a plurality of 766 votes.^^ The Jackson counties con- 
sisted largely of those in the corner between Indiana and the 
Ohio River, and a group in the eastern part of the state 
settled largely by Pennsylvanians. Adams won counties on 
the Reserve and Washington, Meigs, and Athens on the 
Ohio, — those settled by New Englanders. Clay carried 4 coun- 
ties on the Reserve, probably on the internal improvements 
issue, and counties scattered over the state.^^ Indiana went 
for Jackson,^® but Illinois, voting by districts, returned 2 
electors for Jackson and 1 for Adams.^® The popular vote 
for the three states was Jackson, 27,104; Clay 25,617 ; Adams, 
16,913 ; Crawford, 219 ; with 629 votes not counted in the 
first district of Illinois. Ohio returned 14 representatives to 
^-Western Sun and General Advertiser (Vincennes, Ind.), February 2, April 27, 
November 20 and 23, 1822; National Republican (Cincinnati, Ohio), January 14, Sep- 
tember 19, 1823, January 23, 1824 ; Niles" Register, December 20, 1823. 
Clay, 19,255 ; Jackson, 18,489 ; Adams, 12,280. National Republican, November 19, 
1824 : Cincinnati Emporium, December 16, 1824. 
See map and articles by E.H. Roseboom, “Ohio in the Presidential Election of 
1824”, Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications, XXVI, 167. 
Jackson, 7,343 ; Clay, 5,315 ; Adams, 3,093. Western Sun and General Advertiser, 
December 4, 1824. 
Adams, 1,540 ; Jackson, 1,272 ; Clay, 1,047 ; Crawford, 219, and 629 for the “Jackson 
or Clay” elector in the first. 
