1796
| Candidate |
Popular
|
Electoral
|
| John Adams Federalist |
*
|
71
|
| Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican |
*
|
68
|
| *popular vote was not recorded John Adams by C. W. Peale, 1791 from Images of American Political History (public domain) |
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Washington, disturbed by the strong political disagreements of his era and eager to retire to his home, Mount Vernon, eliminated himself as a candidate in 1796. A vigorous campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson ensued, resulting in the election of Adams. These cartoons are caricatures of Democratic-Republicans from a pamphlet containing the satirical poem Remarks on the Jacobiniad (3A-1066487), (3B-1066485). The Republicans were nicknamed Jacobins after the Parisian radicals, reflecting the Republicans' general support of the French Revolution. Federalists, on the other hand, upheld Washington's strict course of neutrality and feared the spread of Jacobinism in the country.