[297] Ibid., p. 216.
[298] New York Tribune, July 23, 1860.
[299] Ibid., July 14, 1860.
[300] Ibid., July 24, 1860.
[301] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 462. Seward's Works, Vol. 4, p. 384.
[302] "Seward filled the minds of Republicans, attracting such attention and honour, and arousing such enthusiasm, that the closing months of the campaign were the most brilliant epoch of his life. It was then he reached the climax of his career."—James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 493.
[303] "Seward charged his defeat chiefly to Greeley. He felt toward that influential editor as much vindictiveness as was possible in a man of so amiable a nature. But he did not retire to his tent."—James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 494.
"The magnanimity of Mr. Seward, since the result of the convention was known," wrote James Russell Lowell, "has been a greater ornament to him and a greater honour to his party than his election to the Presidency would have been."—Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860; Lowell's Political Essays, p. 34.
[304] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, pp. 462-66.
[305] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 464.