[65] Silas Wright, 241,090; Millard Fillmore, 231,057; Alvan Stewart, 15,136.—Civil List, State of New York (1887), p. 166.
[66] In 1840 Gerrit Smith received 2662; in 1842 Alvan Stewart polled 7263.—Ibid., p. 166.
[67] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 1, p. 572.
[68] "On that occasion the feud between the two sections of the party was disclosed in all its intensity. The conflict, which was sharp and ended in the election of Daniel S. Dickinson for the six-years term, in spite of the strong opposition of the Radical members of the caucus, was a triumph for the Conservatives, and a defeat for the friends of Governor Wright. The closing years of the great statesman's life were overcast by shadows; adverse influences were evidently in the ascendant, not only at Washington, but close about him and at home."—Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John A. Dix, Vol. 1, p. 194.
[69] "On the great question that loomed threateningly on the horizon, Wright and Marcy took opposite sides. Wright moved calmly along with the advancing liberal sentiment of the period, and died a firm advocate of the policy of the Wilmot Proviso. On this test measure Marcy took no step forward."—H.B. Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 40.
[70] Jabez D. Hammond, Political History of New York, Vol. 3, p. 537.
[71] Jabez D. Hammond, Political History of New York, Vol. 3, p. 544.
[72] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 33.
[73] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 1, p. 791.
[74] Autobiography of Thurlow Weed, p. 34.