[383] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 478.
[384] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 308.
[385] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 479.
[386] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, pp. 307, 308.
[387] Ibid., Vol. 2, p. 308.
[388] "Weed's articles have brought perplexities about me which he, with all his astuteness, did not foresee."—F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 480.
[389] "Our senators agree with me to practise reticence and kindness. But others fear that I will figure, and so interfere and derange all."—Ibid., p. 480.
[390] "The debates in the Senate are hasty, feeble, inconclusive and unsatisfactory; presumptuous on the part of the ill-tempered South; feeble and frivolous on the part of the North."—Ibid., p. 481.
[391] "All is apprehension about the Southern demonstrations. No one has any system, few any courage, or confidence in the Union, in this emergency."—Ibid., p. 478.
[392] "Charles Sumner's lecture in New York brought a 'Barnburner' or Buffalo party around him. They gave nine cheers for the passage in which he describes Lafayette as rejecting all and every compromise, and the knowing ones told him those cheers laid out Thurlow Weed, and then he came and told me, of course."—Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 308.