Less than a month before, the Republicans in the Senate had seen one of their favorites, Albert Gallatin, unseated as failing to meet the minimum nine years citizenship constitutionally required of a U.S. senator, and they took the opportunity for revenge.
Within less than a month, the Republicans in the Senate noticed that one of their candidates, Albert Gallatin, was rejected because he did not meet the constitutional requirement of having lived in the United States for nine years, and thus they used this chance to take vengeance.