[170] H.B. Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 164. John W. Taylor served twenty consecutive years in Congress—a longer continuous service than any New York successor. Taylor also bears the proud distinction of being the only speaker from New York. Twice he was honoured as the successor of Henry Clay. He died at the home of his daughter in Cleveland, Ohio, in September, 1854, at the age of seventy, leaving a place in history strongly marked.
[171] New York Times, June 1, 1854.
[172] New York Evening Post, May 23, 1854.
[173] "There is about as much infidelity among Whigs at Albany as was expected; perhaps a little more. But there is also a counteracting agency in the other party, it is said, which promises to be an equilibrium."—F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 243.
[174] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 243.
[175] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 243.
[176] Ibid., p. 251.
[177] Ibid., p. 245.
[178] Ibid., p. 246.
[179] Spring's Kansas, p. 44; see also, Sara Robinson, Kansas, p. 27.