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

by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

[346] Ibid., p. 261.

[347] Albany Evening Journal, January 9, 1861.

[348] Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 259.

[349] Ibid., Vol. 3, p. 259.

[350] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, pp. 310, 311.

[351] Albany Argus, November 10, 1860. On November 12 the Rochester Union argued that the threatened secession of the slave States was but a counterpoise of the personal liberty bills and other measures of antagonism to slave-holding at the North. See, also, the New York Herald, November 9.

[352] Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John A. Dix, Vol. 1, p. 338.

[353] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 700.

[354] James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 3, p. 261, note.

[355] Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen, LXXXI: p. 25, 26. New York Herald, January 8.