New Jersey Politics and Government: The Suburbs Come of Age

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375 Notes Chapter 1 Prologue The epigraph in this chapter is drawn from Paul Simon, “America,” copyright 1968 by Paul Simon. 1. EdmundWilson Jr.,“New Jersey:The Slave ofTwo Cities,” in These United States: A Symposium, ed. Ernest Gruening, 56–57 (NewYork: Boni and Liveright, 1923; repr., Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971). 2. Gruening, introduction to Gruening, These United States, iii. 3. Wilson,“New Jersey,” 61, 65. 4. Joe McGinnis, Blind Faith (NewYork: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989), 43. 5. Ibid., 45. 6. Michael Danielson, quoted in John J. Farmer,“Crucial Cities: Rebound is Vital to State’s Future,” Newark Star-Ledger, April 8, 1991. 7. John J. Farmer,“The N-E-W New Jersey: Era of a Quiet RevolutionTransforms the State,” Newark Star-Ledger, April 7, 1991. Chapter 2 Foundations The first epigraph in this chapter is quoted in Robert Sullivan, My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2012.The second epigraph is drawn from Lincoln Steffens,“New Jersey:A Traitor State,” in The Struggle for Self-Government (New York: McClure, Phillips, 1906), 212. 1. EdmundWilson Jr.,“New Jersey:The Slave ofTwo Cities,” in These United States, ed. Ernest Gruening, 56 (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923; repr., Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971). 2. In a speech to the Newark Board ofTrade, reported by the Newark Evening News, January 26, 1911. Quoted in Federal Writers’ Project,Works Progress Administration , New Jersey:A Guide to Its Present and Its Past (NewYork: Hastings House, 1939), 35. 3. SusanVankoski,“If At FirstYou Don’t Secede . . . ,” New Jersey Reporter, November 1983, 16–20. 4. Carl E. Prince, “Patronage and a Party Machine: New Jersey DemocraticRepublican Activists, 1801–1816,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 21, no. 4 (October 1964): 571–578; Peter Levine,“State Legislative Parties in the Jacksonian Era: New Jersey 1829–1844,” Journal of American History 62 (December 1975): 591–608. 5. Most other antebellum state governments played at least as active a role as their local governments in taxing and spending. Frederick Herrmann, “Stress and Structure: Political Change in Antebellum New Jersey” (Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1976), 341n. 3 7 6 Notes to Pages 10–16 6. George Washington to John Augustine Washington, TheWritings of George Washington , ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931–1944), 6:397–398. 7. Thomas L. Purvis,“The European Origins of New Jersey’s Eighteenth Century Population,” New Jersey History 100 (Spring-Summer 1982): 15–31. 8. Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to theWest:A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (NewYork:Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), 246–251. 9. Quoted in Francis Bazeley Lee, New Jersey as a Colony and as a State (NewYork: Publishing Society of New Jersey, 1902), 4:28. 10. Simeon F. Moss, “The Persistence of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in a Free State (1685–1866),” Journal of Negro History 35 (July 1950): 289–314. New Jersey’s slave population was second only to that of New York among northern states. Although the legislature had banned the importation of slaves in 1786 and declared that anyone born after July 4, 1804, would be free, slavery was not finally abolished until 1845. 11. Paul G. E. Clemens, The Uses of Abundance: A History of New Jersey’s Economy (Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992), 10–13; Rudolph J.Vecoli, The People of New Jersey (Princeton, NJ: D.Van Nostrand, 1964), 51. 12. Thomas Fleming, “Crossroads of the American Revolution,” in New Jersey in the American Revolution, ed. Barbara J. Mitnick, 7 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005). 13. Vecoli, The People of New Jersey, 60. 14. Thomas Fleming, New Jersey:A History NewYork: Norton, 1977), 98. 15. Gibbons’s country estate in Bottle Hill (now Madison) was later purchased by Daniel Drew and became the site of Drew University. 16. From the charter granted by the legislature, as quoted in Wheaton J. Lane, From IndianTrail to Iron Horse (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1939), 325. 17. Duane Lockard, The New Jersey Governor: A Study in Political Power (Princeton, NJ: D.Van Nostrand, 1964), 57. 18. Fleming, New Jersey, 103. 19. Floyd W. Parsons, New Jersey: Life, Industries and Resources of a Great State (Newark : New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, 1928), 41–44; Lockard, The New Jersey Governor, 61. 20. Quoted in Richard P. McCormick,“New Jersey’s First Congressional Election: A Case Study in Political Skulduggerry,” William and...