[219] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 352.
[220] New York Daily Tribune, October 27, 1858.
"Few speeches from the stump have attracted so great attention or exerted so great an influence. The eminence of the man combined with the startling character of the doctrine to make it engross the public mind. Republicans looked upon the doctrine announced as the well-weighed conclusion of a profound thinker and of a man of wide experience, who united the political philosopher with the practical politician. It is not probable that Lincoln's 'house divided against itself' speech had any influence in bringing Seward to this position. He would at this time have scorned the notion of borrowing ideas from Lincoln; and had he studied the progress of the Illinois canvass, he must have seen that the declaration did not meet with general favour. In February of this year there had been bodied forth in Seward the politician. Now, a far-seeing statesman spoke. One was compared to Webster's 7th-of-March speech,—the other was commended by the Abolitionists."—James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 2, pp. 344-5.
[221] Edwin D. Morgan, 247,953; Amasa J. Parker, 230,513; Lorenzo Burrows, 60,880; Gerrit Smith, 5470.—Civil List, State of New York (1887), p. 166.
[222] "'Scripture Dick,' whom we used to consider the sorriest of slow jokers, has really brightened up."—New York Tribune, March 17, 1859.
[223] Congressional Globe, 36th Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 553-4 (January 23, 1860).
[224] James E. Cabot, Life of Emerson, p. 597.
[225] Samuel Longfellow, Life of Longfellow, Vol. 2, p. 347.
[226] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 441.
[227] Ibid., p. 442.