[316] Speech of February 29, 1860: Seward's Works, Vol. 4, p. 619.

[317] New York Tribune, November 30, 1860. The quotation is from an address delivered in Boston.

[318] New York Tribune, November 9, 1860.

[319] Ibid., November 26.

[320] New York Tribune, December 17.

[321] Ibid., February 23.

[322] Ibid., November 30. "In so far as the Free States are concerned," he said, "I hold that it will be an advantage for the South to go off."

[323] The Liberator, November and December.

[324] Albany Evening Journal, November 26, 1860.

[325] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 306.