Martin Van Buren, then senator from New York, managed this, the last congressional caucus for the selection of candidates.
The solemnity given to the congressional nominations, and the publicity of the answers of candidates, Mr.Gallatin held to be political blunders.

In fact the plan was adroitly denounced as an attempt to dictate to the people.
Crawford was nominated for president by 64 votes, Gallatin for vice-president by 57.

This nomination Mr.Gallatin accepted in a note to Mr.Ruggles, United States senator, on May 10, 1824.

But there were elements of which party leaders of the old school had not taken sufficient account.

Macon was right when he said that "every generation, like a single person, has opinions of its own, as much so in politics as anything else," and that 'the opinions of Jefferson and those who were with him were forgotten.' And Jefferson himself, in his complacent reflection that even the name of Federalist was "extinguished by the battle of New Orleans," did not see that the Republican party of the old school had been snuffed out by the same event.