[818] Halstead, Political Conventions of 1860, p. 59.

[819] Ibid., p. 29.

[820] Ibid., p. 5.

[821] Ibid., pp. 9 and 20.

[822] Halstead, Political Conventions of 1860, pp. 12-13.

[823] Ibid., p. 8.

[824] Ibid., p. 36.

[825] Especially in securing votes from the delegations of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where the influence of the administration was strong. Halstead, Political Conventions of 1860, pp. 25-28.

[826] Halstead, Political Conventions of 1860, p. 36.

[827] Stanwood, History of the Presidency, pp. 283-288.