[238] "Many of New York's delegates were eminent men of business, anxious for peace; others were adroit politicians, adept at a trade and eager to hold the party together by any means."—James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 474.
[239] "Though destitute of all literary furnishment, Richmond carried on his broad shoulders one of the clearest heads in the ranks of the Barnburners."—H.B. Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 183.
[240] M. Halstead, National Political Conventions of 1860, p. 20.
[241] M. Halstead, National Political Conventions of 1860, p. 48.
[242] M. Halstead, National Political Conventions of 1860, p. 50.
[243] M. Halstead, National Political Conventions of 1860, p. 66.
[244] Ibid., p. 68.
[245] "There was a Fourth of July feeling in Charleston that night—a jubilee. The public sentiment was overwhelmingly and enthusiastically in favour of the seceders. The Douglas men looked badly, as though they had been troubled with bad dreams. The disruption is too serious for them. They find themselves in the position of a semi-Free Soil sectional party, and the poor fellows take it hard. The ultra South sectionalists accuse them of cleaving unto heresies as bad as Sewardism."—M. Halstead, National Political Conventions of 1860, p. 76.
[246] "Dickinson has ten votes in the New York delegation and no more."—New York Tribune's report from Charleston, April 24, 1860.
[247] "The drill of the New York delegation and its united vote created a murmur of applause at its steady and commanding front."—New York Tribune, June 19, 1860.