A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3

by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

[228] New York Tribune, February 28, 1860.

[229] Century Magazine, July, 1891, p. 373. An address of Greeley written in 1868.

[230] New York Tribune, March 1, 1860.

[231] New York Tribune, March 1, 1860.

[232] New York Times, March 2, 1860.

[233] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 260.

[234] New York Tribune, March 22, 1860.

[235] The Liberator, March 9, 1860.

[236] New York Tribune, March 2, 1860.

[237] "The Fernando Wood movement was utterly overthrown in the preliminary stages. Several scenes in the fight were highly entertaining. Mr. Fisher of Virginia was picked out to make the onslaught, when John Cochrane of New York, who is the brains of the Cagger-Cassidy delegation, shut him off with a point of order."—M. Halstead, National Political Conventions of 1860, p. 20.