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[338]"I said to the committee of thirteen, and I say here, that, with other satisfactory provisions, I would accept it." Toombs in the Senate, January 7, 1861.—Globe, p. 270. "I can confirm the Senator's declaration that Senator Davis himself, when on the committee of thirteen, was ready, at all times, to compromise on the Crittenden proposition. I will go further and say that Mr. Toombs was also." Douglas in the Senate, March 2, 1861.—Globe, p. 1391.

[339]See Davis's speech of January 10, 1861.Congressional Globe, p. 310.

[340]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 263. Letter to Lincoln, December 26, 1860.

[341]James F. Rhodes,History of the United States, Vol. 3, p. 155.

[342]New YorkTribune, December 19, 1860.

[343]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 258.

[344]New YorkTribune, December 22, 1860.

[345]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 258.

[346]Ibid., p. 261.

[347]AlbanyEvening Journal, January 9, 1861.

[348]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 259.

[349]Ibid., Vol. 3, p. 259.

[350]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, pp. 310, 311.

[351]AlbanyArgus, November 10, 1860. On November 12 the RochesterUnionargued that the threatened secession of the slave States was but a counterpoise of the personal liberty bills and other measures of antagonism to slave-holding at the North. See, also, the New YorkHerald, November 9.

[352]Morgan Dix,Memoirs of John A. Dix, Vol. 1, p. 338.

[353]Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 700.

[354]James F. Rhodes,History of the United States, Vol. 3, p. 261,note.

[355]Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen, LXXXI: p. 25, 26. New YorkHerald, January 8.

[356]New YorkTribune, January 8, 1861.

[357]Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 700.

[358]"The whole people in this part of the country are waiting with impatience for your assumption of the great office to which the suffrage of a free people has called you, and will hail you as a deliverer from treason and anarchy. In New York City all classes and parties are rapidly uniting in this sentiment, and here in Albany, where I am spending a few days in attendance upon Court, the general tone of feeling and thinking about public affairs shows little difference between Republicans and Democrats."—W.M. Evarts to Abraham Lincoln, January 15, 1861. Unpublished letter on file in Department of State at Washington.

[359]Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 520.

[360]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 317.

[361]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 318.

[362]Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 520.

[363]Fowler, who was appointed postmaster of New York by President Pierce, began a system of embezzlements in 1855, which amounted, at the time of his removal, to $155,000.—Report of Postmaster-General Holt,Senate Document, 36th Congress, 1st Session, XI., 48. "In one year Fowler's bill at the New York Hotel, which he made the Democratic headquarters, amounted to $25,000. His brother, John Walker Fowler, clerk to Surrogate Tucker, subsequently absconded with $31,079, belonging to orphans and others."—Gustavus Myers,History of Tammany Hall, pp. 232, 233.

[364]John Jay Knox,United States Notes, p. 76.

[365]New YorkEvening Post, December 26, 1860."On Tuesday, January 8, my father received a dispatch from the President to come at once to the White House. He went immediately and was offered the War Department. This he declined, informing Mr. Buchanan, as had been agreed upon, that at that moment he could be of no service to him in any position except that of the Treasury Department, and that he would accept no other post. The President asked for time. The following day he had Mr. Philip Thomas's resignation in his hand, and sent General Dix's name to the Senate. It was instantly confirmed."—Morgan Dix,Memoirs of John A. Dix, Vol. 1, p. 362.

[365]New YorkEvening Post, December 26, 1860.

"On Tuesday, January 8, my father received a dispatch from the President to come at once to the White House. He went immediately and was offered the War Department. This he declined, informing Mr. Buchanan, as had been agreed upon, that at that moment he could be of no service to him in any position except that of the Treasury Department, and that he would accept no other post. The President asked for time. The following day he had Mr. Philip Thomas's resignation in his hand, and sent General Dix's name to the Senate. It was instantly confirmed."—Morgan Dix,Memoirs of John A. Dix, Vol. 1, p. 362.

[366]The plan advocated by Fernando Wood in his annual message to the Common Council, referred to onp. 348.

[367]Morgan Dix,Memoirs of John A. Dix, Vol. 1, pp. 336, 343.

[368]Horace Greeley,The American Conflict, Vol. 1, p. 388.

[369]Ibid., p. 388.

[370]AlbanyArgus, February 1, 1861.William H. Russell, correspondent of the LondonTimes, who dined with Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden and George Bancroft, wrote that "the result left on my mind by their conversation and arguments was that, according to the Constitution, the government could not employ force to prevent secession, or to compel States which had seceded by the will of the people to acknowledge the federal power."—Entry March 17,Diary, p. 20.

[370]AlbanyArgus, February 1, 1861.

William H. Russell, correspondent of the LondonTimes, who dined with Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden and George Bancroft, wrote that "the result left on my mind by their conversation and arguments was that, according to the Constitution, the government could not employ force to prevent secession, or to compel States which had seceded by the will of the people to acknowledge the federal power."—Entry March 17,Diary, p. 20.

[371]Horace Greeley,The American Conflict, Vol. 1, p. 394."When rebellion actually began many loyal Democrats came nobly out and planted themselves by the side of the country. But those who clung to the party organisation, what did they do? A month before Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated they held a state convention for the Democratic party of the State of New York. It was said it was to save the country,—it was whispered it was to save the party. The state committee called it and representative men gathered to attend it.... They applauded to the echo the very blasphemy of treason, but they attempted by points of order to silence DeWitt Clinton's son because he dared to raise his voice for the Constitution of his country and to call rebellion by its proper name."—Speech of Roscoe Conkling, September 26, 1862, A.R. Conkling,Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, p. 180.

[371]Horace Greeley,The American Conflict, Vol. 1, p. 394.

"When rebellion actually began many loyal Democrats came nobly out and planted themselves by the side of the country. But those who clung to the party organisation, what did they do? A month before Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated they held a state convention for the Democratic party of the State of New York. It was said it was to save the country,—it was whispered it was to save the party. The state committee called it and representative men gathered to attend it.... They applauded to the echo the very blasphemy of treason, but they attempted by points of order to silence DeWitt Clinton's son because he dared to raise his voice for the Constitution of his country and to call rebellion by its proper name."—Speech of Roscoe Conkling, September 26, 1862, A.R. Conkling,Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, p. 180.

[372]See New YorkTribune, March 23, 1861, for Field's statement in defence of his action. AlsoTribune, March 7, for John A. King's charges.

[373]Lucius E. Chittenden,Report of Proceedings of Peace Conference, pp. 157, 170, 303, 428.

[374]Lucius E. Chittenden,Report of Proceedings of Peace Conference, p. 304.

[375]New YorkTribune, February 5, 1861.

[376]Ibid., February 5, 1861.

[377]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 324.

[378]"Pale as ashes, Weed sat smoking a cigar within earshot of the bustle in the crowded assembly room where the caucus sat. Littlejohn stalked over the heads of the spectators and reported to Weed. Unmindful of the fact that he had a cigar in his mouth, Weed lighted another and put it in, then rose in great excitement and said to Littlejohn, 'Tell the Evarts men to go right over to Harris—toHarris—toHarris!' The order was given in the caucus. They wheeled into line like Napoleon's Old Guard, and Harris was nominated."—H.B. Stanton,Random Recollections, p. 218.

[379]"It is quite possible that theTribune'sarticles of November, 1860, cost Greeley the senatorship."—James F. Rhodes,History of the United States, Vol. 3, p. 142.

[380]New YorkTribune, February 5, 1861.

[381]"It is one of the curiosities of human nature that Greeley, who exceeded in influence many of our Presidents, should have hankered so constantly for office. It is strange enough that the man who wrote as a dictator of public opinion in theTribuneon the 9th of November could write two days later the letter to Seward, dissolving the political firm of Seward, Weed, and Greeley. In that letter the petulance of the office-seeker is shown, and the grievous disappointment that he did not get the nomination for lieutenant-governor, which went to Raymond, stands out plainly."—James F. Rhodes,History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 72.

[382]Alex. K. McClure,Recollections of Half a Century, pp. 213, 214.

[383]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 478.

[384]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 308.

[385]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 479.

[386]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, pp. 307, 308.

[387]Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 308.

[388]"Weed's articles have brought perplexities about me which he, with all his astuteness, did not foresee."—F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 480.

[389]"Our senators agree with me to practise reticence and kindness. But others fear that I will figure, and so interfere and derange all."—Ibid., p. 480.

[390]"The debates in the Senate are hasty, feeble, inconclusive and unsatisfactory; presumptuous on the part of the ill-tempered South; feeble and frivolous on the part of the North."—Ibid., p. 481.

[391]"All is apprehension about the Southern demonstrations. No one has any system, few any courage, or confidence in the Union, in this emergency."—Ibid., p. 478.

[392]"Charles Sumner's lecture in New York brought a 'Barnburner' or Buffalo party around him. They gave nine cheers for the passage in which he describes Lafayette as rejecting all and every compromise, and the knowing ones told him those cheers laid out Thurlow Weed, and then he came and told me, of course."—Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 308.

[393]"While the evidence is not positive that Seward contemplated heading a movement of Republicans that would have resulted in the acceptance by them of a plan similar in essence to the Crittenden compromise, yet his private correspondence shows that he was wavering, and gives rise to the belief that the pressure of Weed, Raymond, and Webb would have outweighed that of his radical Republican colleagues if he had not been restrained by the unequivocal declarations of Lincoln."—James F. Rhodes,History of the United States, Vol. 3, p. 157.

[394]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 480.

[395]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 349.

[396]Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860;Lowell's Political Essays, p. 34.

[397]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 301.

[398]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 493.

[399]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, pp. 481, 487.

[400]New YorkTimes, December 24, 1860.

[401]William Salter,Life of James W. Grimes, p. 132. Letter of December 16, 1860.

[402]New YorkTribune, December 24, 1860.

[403]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 485.

[404]Ibid., p. 486.

[405]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 288.

[406]Journal of the Committee of Thirteen, pp. 10, 13.

[407]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 484.

[408]Congressional Globe, pp. 308, 309.

[409]Ibid., p. 307.

[410]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 493.

[411]The RichmondWhig, January 17, 1861.

[412]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 494.

[413]"I will try to save freedom and my country," Seward wrote his wife.—F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 487. "I have assumed a sort of dictatorship for defence, and am labouring night and day with the cities and States."—Ibid., 491. "I am the only hopeful, calm, conciliatory person."—Ibid., 497. "It seems to me that if I am absent only three days, this Administration, the Congress, and the district would fall into consternation and despair."—Ibid., 497. "The present Administration and the incoming one unite in devolving upon me the responsibility of averting civil war."—Ibid., 497.

[414]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 497.

[415]New YorkTribune, January 14, 1861.Seward's Works, Vol. 4, p. 651.

[416]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 494.

[417]New YorkTribune(editorial), January 14, 1861.

[418]TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD."Statesman, I thank thee!—and if yet dissentMingles, reluctant, with my large content,I can not censure what was nobly meant.But while constrained to hold even Union lessThan Liberty, and Truth, and Righteousness,I thank thee, in the sweet and holy nameOf Peace, for wise, calm words, that put to shamePassion and party. Courage may be shownNot in defiance of the wrong alone;He may be bravest, who, unweaponed, bearsThe olive branch, and strong in justice sparesThe rash wrong-doer, giving widest scopeTo Christian charity, and generous hope.If without damage to the sacred causeOf Freedom, and the safeguard of its laws—If, without yielding that for which aloneWe prize the Union, thou canst save it now,From a baptism of blood, upon thy browA wreath whose flowers no earthly soil has knownWoven of the beatitudes, shall rest;And the peace-maker be forever blest!"

[418]

TO WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

"Statesman, I thank thee!—and if yet dissentMingles, reluctant, with my large content,I can not censure what was nobly meant.But while constrained to hold even Union lessThan Liberty, and Truth, and Righteousness,I thank thee, in the sweet and holy nameOf Peace, for wise, calm words, that put to shamePassion and party. Courage may be shownNot in defiance of the wrong alone;He may be bravest, who, unweaponed, bearsThe olive branch, and strong in justice sparesThe rash wrong-doer, giving widest scopeTo Christian charity, and generous hope.If without damage to the sacred causeOf Freedom, and the safeguard of its laws—If, without yielding that for which aloneWe prize the Union, thou canst save it now,From a baptism of blood, upon thy browA wreath whose flowers no earthly soil has knownWoven of the beatitudes, shall rest;And the peace-maker be forever blest!"

[419]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 488.

[420]Ibid., p. 490.

[421]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 497."In regard to February, 1861, I need only say that I desired to avoid giving the secession leaders the excuse and opportunity to open the civil war before the new Administration and new Congress could be in authority to subdue it. I conferred throughout with General Scott, and Mr. Stanton, then in Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. I presume I conversed with others in a way that seemed to me best calculated to leave the inauguration of a war to the secessionists, and to delay it, in any case, until the new Administration should be in possession of the Government. On the 22d of February, in concert with Mr. Stanton, I caused the United States flag to be displayed throughout all the northern and western portions of the United States." Letters of W.H. Seward, June 13, 1867.—William Schouler,Massachusetts in the Civil War, Vol. 1, pp. 41, 42.

[421]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 497.

"In regard to February, 1861, I need only say that I desired to avoid giving the secession leaders the excuse and opportunity to open the civil war before the new Administration and new Congress could be in authority to subdue it. I conferred throughout with General Scott, and Mr. Stanton, then in Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. I presume I conversed with others in a way that seemed to me best calculated to leave the inauguration of a war to the secessionists, and to delay it, in any case, until the new Administration should be in possession of the Government. On the 22d of February, in concert with Mr. Stanton, I caused the United States flag to be displayed throughout all the northern and western portions of the United States." Letters of W.H. Seward, June 13, 1867.—William Schouler,Massachusetts in the Civil War, Vol. 1, pp. 41, 42.

[422]New YorkTribune, January 29 and February 6, 1861.

[423]A writer in theNorth American Review(August, 1879, p. 135) speaks of the singular confidence of Siddon of Virginia (afterwards secretary of war of the Southern Confederacy) in Mr. Seward, and the mysterious allusions to the skilful plans maturing for an adjustment of sectional difficulties.

[424]W.H. Seward,Works of, Vol. 4, p. 670.Congressional Globe, 1861, p. 657.

[425]"Oily Gammon Seward, aware that intimidation will not do, is going to resort to the gentle powers of seduction."—Washington correspondent of CharlestonMercury, February 19, 1861.

[426]New YorkTribune, February 4, 1861.

[427]New YorkTribune, February 5, 1861.

[428]"I have rejoiced, as you of New York must certainly have done, in the spirit of conciliation which has repeatedly been manifested, during the present session of Congress, by your distinguished senator, Governor Seward." Robert C. Winthrop to the Constitutional Union Committee of Troy, February 17.—Winthrop's Addresses and Speeches, Vol. 2, p. 701. "If Mr. Seward moves in favour of compromise, the whole Republican party sways like a field of grain before his breath." Letter of Oliver Wendell Holmes, February 16, 1861.—Motley's Correspondence, Vol. 1, p. 360.

[429]DetroitPost and Tribune;Life of Zachariah Chandler, p. 189.

[430]Letter to Dr. Thompson of the New YorkIndependent. F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 507.

[431]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 512.

[432]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 3, p. 513.

[433]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 343,note.

[434]Ibid., pp. 343, 344, andnote.For facsimile of the paragraph as written by Seward and rewritten by Lincoln, seeIbid., Vol. 3, p. 336. For the entire address, with all suggested and adopted changes, seeIbid., Vol. 3, pp. 327 to 344.At Seward's dinner table on the evening of March 4, the peroration of the inaugural address was especially commended by A. Oakey Hall, afterward mayor of New York, who quickly put it into rhyme:"The mystic chords of MemoryThat stretch from patriot graves;From battle-fields to living hearts,Or hearth-stones freed from slaves,An Union chorus shall prolong,And grandly, proudly swell,When by those better angels touchedWho in all natures dwell."

[434]Ibid., pp. 343, 344, andnote.

For facsimile of the paragraph as written by Seward and rewritten by Lincoln, seeIbid., Vol. 3, p. 336. For the entire address, with all suggested and adopted changes, seeIbid., Vol. 3, pp. 327 to 344.

At Seward's dinner table on the evening of March 4, the peroration of the inaugural address was especially commended by A. Oakey Hall, afterward mayor of New York, who quickly put it into rhyme:

"The mystic chords of MemoryThat stretch from patriot graves;From battle-fields to living hearts,Or hearth-stones freed from slaves,An Union chorus shall prolong,And grandly, proudly swell,When by those better angels touchedWho in all natures dwell."

[435]"Seward and his friends were greatly offended at the action of Curtin at Chicago. I was chairman of the Lincoln state committee and fighting the pivotal struggle of the national battle, but not one dollar of assistance came from New York, and my letters to Thurlow Weed and to Governor Morgan, chairman of the national committee, were unanswered. Seward largely aided the appointment of a Cabinet officer in Pennsylvania, who was the most conspicuous of Curtin's foes, and on Curtin's visit to Seward as secretary of state, he gave him such a frigid reception that he never thereafter called at that department."—Alex. K. McClure,Recollections of Half a Century, p. 220.

[436]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 370.

[437]Ibid., Vol. 3, p. 371.

[438]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 518.

[439]Alex. K. McClure,Recollections of Half a Century, p. 204.

[440]George T. Curtis,Life of James Buchanan, Vol. 2, p. 530.

[441]O.B. Hallister,Life of Colfax, p. 173.

[442]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 530.

[443]Alex. K. McClure,Life of Lincoln, p. 56.

[444]George T. Curtis,Life of James Buchanan, Vol. 2, p. 530.A writer in theNorth American Reviewsays, "the clamour for offices is already quite extraordinary, and these poor people undoubtedly belong to the horde which has pressed in here seeking places under the new Administration, which neither has nor can hope to have places enough to satisfy one-twentieth the number." November, 1879, p. 488.

[444]George T. Curtis,Life of James Buchanan, Vol. 2, p. 530.

A writer in theNorth American Reviewsays, "the clamour for offices is already quite extraordinary, and these poor people undoubtedly belong to the horde which has pressed in here seeking places under the new Administration, which neither has nor can hope to have places enough to satisfy one-twentieth the number." November, 1879, p. 488.

[445]F.W. Seward,Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 518.

[446]A.R. Conkling,Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, pp. 119, 120.

[447]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 612.

[448]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, pp. 612, 613.

[449]Gideon Welles,Lincoln and Seward, p. 22."In pecuniary matters Weed was generous to a fault while poor; he is said to be less so since he became rich.... I cannot doubt, however, that if he had never seen Wall Street or Washington, had never heard of the Stock Board, and had lived in some yet undiscovered country, where legislation is never bought nor sold, his life would have been more blameless, useful, and happy. I was sitting beside him in his editorial room soon after Governor Seward's election, when he opened a letter from a brother Whig, which ran substantially thus: 'Dear Weed: I want to be a bank examiner. You know how to fix it. Do so, and draw on me for whatever sum you may see fit. Yours truly.' In an instant his face became prematurely black with mingled rage and mortification. 'My God,' said he, 'I knew that my political adversaries thought me a scoundrel, but I never till now supposed that my friends did.'"—Horace Greeley,Recollections of a Busy Life, pp. 312, 313.

[449]Gideon Welles,Lincoln and Seward, p. 22.

"In pecuniary matters Weed was generous to a fault while poor; he is said to be less so since he became rich.... I cannot doubt, however, that if he had never seen Wall Street or Washington, had never heard of the Stock Board, and had lived in some yet undiscovered country, where legislation is never bought nor sold, his life would have been more blameless, useful, and happy. I was sitting beside him in his editorial room soon after Governor Seward's election, when he opened a letter from a brother Whig, which ran substantially thus: 'Dear Weed: I want to be a bank examiner. You know how to fix it. Do so, and draw on me for whatever sum you may see fit. Yours truly.' In an instant his face became prematurely black with mingled rage and mortification. 'My God,' said he, 'I knew that my political adversaries thought me a scoundrel, but I never till now supposed that my friends did.'"—Horace Greeley,Recollections of a Busy Life, pp. 312, 313.

[450]"President Lincoln looked to Mr. Weed for counsel, when, as often during the war, he met with difficulties hard to surmount. It was Mr. Lincoln's habit at such times to telegraph Mr. Weed to come to Washington from Albany or New York, perhaps at an hour's notice. He often spent the day with the President, coming and returning by night, regardless of his age and infirmities. His services in these exigencies were often invaluable."—Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 288.

[451]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 2, p. 217.

[452]New YorkHerald, March 14, 1861.

[453]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 613.

[454]New YorkTribune, editorial, April 2, 1861.

[455]"'It was worth the journey to the East,' said Mr. Lincoln, 'to see such a man as Bryant.'"—John Bigelow,Life of William Cullen Bryant, p. 218.

[456]Nicolay and Hay,Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 257.

[457]Thurlow Weed Barnes,Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 613.

[458]"Hiram Barney belongs to the Van Buren Democratic Buffalo Free-soil wing of the Republican party. He studied law with C.C. Cambreling and practised it with Benjamin F. Butler. For President he voted for Jackson, for Van Buren in 1840 and 1848, for Hale in 1852, and for Fremont and Lincoln. He was also a delegate to the Buffalo convention of 1848; so that as an out-and-out Van Buren Democratic Free-soil Republican, Barney is a better specimen than Van Buren himself."—New YorkHerald, March 28, 1861."Mr. Barney's quiet, unostentatious bearing has deprived him of the notoriety which attaches to most of our politicians of equal experience and influence. Nevertheless, he is well known to the Republican party and universally respected as one of its foremost and most intelligent supporters."—New YorkEvening Post, March 27, 1861.

"Mr. Barney's quiet, unostentatious bearing has deprived him of the notoriety which attaches to most of our politicians of equal experience and influence. Nevertheless, he is well known to the Republican party and universally respected as one of its foremost and most intelligent supporters."—New YorkEvening Post, March 27, 1861.

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