[373] Lucius E. Chittenden, Report of Proceedings of Peace Conference, pp. 157, 170, 303, 428.
[374] Lucius E. Chittenden, Report of Proceedings of Peace Conference, p. 304.
[375] New York Tribune, February 5, 1861.
[376] Ibid., February 5, 1861.
[377] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 324.
[378] "Pale as ashes, Weed sat smoking a cigar within earshot of the bustle in the crowded assembly room where the caucus sat. Littlejohn stalked over the heads of the spectators and reported to Weed. Unmindful of the fact that he had a cigar in his mouth, Weed lighted another and put it in, then rose in great excitement and said to Littlejohn, 'Tell the Evarts men to go right over to Harris—to Harris—to Harris!' The order was given in the caucus. They wheeled into line like Napoleon's Old Guard, and Harris was nominated."—H.B. Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 218.
[379] "It is quite possible that the Tribune's articles of November, 1860, cost Greeley the senatorship."—James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 3, p. 142.
[380] New York Tribune, February 5, 1861.
[381] "It is one of the curiosities of human nature that Greeley, who exceeded in influence many of our Presidents, should have hankered so constantly for office. It is strange enough that the man who wrote as a dictator of public opinion in the Tribune on the 9th of November could write two days later the letter to Seward, dissolving the political firm of Seward, Weed, and Greeley. In that letter the petulance of the office-seeker is shown, and the grievous disappointment that he did not get the nomination for lieutenant-governor, which went to Raymond, stands out plainly."—James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 72.
[382] Alex. K. McClure, Recollections of Half a Century, pp. 213, 214.