[430] Letter to Dr. Thompson of the New York Independent. F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 507.
[431] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 512.
[432] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 3, p. 513.
[433] Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 343, note.
[434] Ibid., pp. 343, 344, and note.
For facsimile of the paragraph as written by Seward and rewritten by Lincoln, see Ibid., Vol. 3, p. 336. For the entire address, with all suggested and adopted changes, see Ibid., Vol. 3, pp. 327 to 344.
At Seward's dinner table on the evening of March 4, the peroration of the inaugural address was especially commended by A. Oakey Hall, afterward mayor of New York, who quickly put it into rhyme:
"The mystic chords of Memory
That stretch from patriot graves;
From battle-fields to living hearts,
Or hearth-stones freed from slaves,
An Union chorus shall prolong,
And grandly, proudly swell,
When by those better angels touched
Who in all natures dwell."
[435] "Seward and his friends were greatly offended at the action of Curtin at Chicago. I was chairman of the Lincoln state committee and fighting the pivotal struggle of the national battle, but not one dollar of assistance came from New York, and my letters to Thurlow Weed and to Governor Morgan, chairman of the national committee, were unanswered. Seward largely aided the appointment of a Cabinet officer in Pennsylvania, who was the most conspicuous of Curtin's foes, and on Curtin's visit to Seward as secretary of state, he gave him such a frigid reception that he never thereafter called at that department."—Alex. K. McClure, Recollections of Half a Century, p. 220.
[436] Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3, p. 370.