Cadwallader Colden a Representative Eighteenth Century Official
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Stem and un- compromising in demeanour, he kept his kindlier manners for his intimates. Never having aspired to lead men, but, on the contrary, having longed to drive them, he had neither studied their prejudices nor the arts of persuasion. He could never have formed a party had he tried, and he never dreamed of stooping to such an attempt. Nor had the Clintons helped to make a social background for the administration. Mrs. Clin- ton, a handsome, frivolous woman, with pretensions to political i...nfluence, had no taste for provincial gayeties and preferred the society of the young naval officers on the American station to exchanging visits with the wives of councillors and assembly- men. Clinton himself was often indisposed, and the family spent much time at their Flushing country house. It was even said that the governor was only seen in church three or four times during his administration, and to many of the people his face was unknown. Such indifference was resented by the sociable population, and when Oliver Delancey presumed to court an affair with Mrs.
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