[464] New York Herald, March 30, 1861.
[465] "Thurlow Weed patched up the New York appointments and left this morning. Greeley arrived about the same time and has been sponging Weed's slate at an awful rate."—Ibid., March 26.
[466] "Barney arrived this morning in response to a summons from the President and the secretary of the treasury."—Ibid., April 1.
[467] "Senator Harris has proved himself more than a match for Weed."—Ibid., April 4.
[468] "Thus far four attachés of the Tribune have been appointed.... These appointments except the last were Mr. Lincoln's regardless of Mr. Seward, who bears the Tribune no love."—Ibid., March 29.
[469] "Seward secures all the important offices save the collectorship, which was given to Greeley."—New York Herald, March 30, 1861.
[470] "In the spring of 1859, Governor Seward crossed the Atlantic, visiting Egypt, traversing Syria, and other portions of Asia Minor as well as much of Europe. Soon after his return he came one evening to my seat in Dr. Chapin's church,—as he had repeatedly done during former visits to our city,—and I now recall this as the last occasion on which we ever met."—Horace Greeley, Recollections of a Busy Life, p. 321.
[471] "'Bray Dickinson,' as he was generally and familiarly called, whose early education was entirely neglected but whose perceptions and intuitions were clear and ready, was an enterprising farmer,—too enterprising, indeed, for he undertook more than he could accomplish. His ambition was to be the largest cattle and produce grower in his county (Steuben). If his whole time and thoughts had been given to farming, his anticipations might have been realised, but, as it was, he experienced the fate of those who keep too many irons in the fire. In 1839 he was elected to the State Senate, where for four years he was able, fearless, and inflexibly honest. On one occasion a senator from Westchester County criticised and ridiculed Dickinson's language. Dickinson immediately rejoined, saying that while his difficulty consisted in a want of suitable language with which to express his ideas, his colleague was troubled with a flood of words without any ideas to express."—Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 1, pp. 441, 442.
[472] F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 1, p. 503.
[473] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 273.