[263] Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, p. 361.
[264] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 39.
[265] Throop, 128,842; Granger, 120,361.—Civil List, State of New York (1887), p. 166.
[266] Autobiography of William H. Seward, p. 56.
[267] Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, p. 137.
[268] Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, p. 423.
[269] Autobiography of William H. Seward, p. 74.
[270] Autobiography of William H. Seward, p. 79.
[271] John S. Jenkins, Lives of the Governors of New York, p. 790.
[272] "Marcy was the immediate predecessor of Wright as state comptroller and United States senator. Each possessed rare talents, but they were totally dissimilar in mental traits and political methods. Both were statesmen of scrupulous honesty, who despised jobbery. Marcy was wily and loved intrigue. Wright was proverbially open and frank. Marcy never trained himself to be a public speaker, and did not shine in the hand-to-hand conflicts of a body that was lustrous with forensic talents. A man's status in the United States Senate is determined by the calibre and skill of the opponents who are selected to cross weapons with him in the forum. Wright was unostentatious, studious, thoughtful, grave. Whenever he delivered an elaborate speech the Whigs set Clay, Webster, Ewing, or some other of their leaders to reply to him."—H.B. Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 39.