[50] "I have just finished a second reading of your speech in Wyoming County, and with so much pleasure and admiration that I cannot refrain from thanking you. It is a speech worthy of an American statesman, and will command the attention of the country by its high and generous patriotism, no less than by its eloquence and power."—Letter of John K. Porter of Albany to D.S. Dickinson, August 23, 1861. Dickinson's Life, Letters, and Speeches, Vol. 2, p. 553. Similar letters were written by Henry W. Rogers of Buffalo, William H. Seward, Dr. N. Niles, and others.—Ibid., pp. 555, 559, 561.
[51] Public Record of Horatio Seymour, pp. 32-43.
[52] Congressional Globe, January 6, 1862.
[53] New York Tribune, May 27, 1861.
[54] Ibid., September 18.
[55] Letter of Secretary Chase, dated February 3, 1862.—E.G. Spaulding, History of the Legal Tender, p. 59.
[56] Spaulding, History of the Legal Tender, p. 18.
[57] The bill escaped from the committee by one majority.
[58] On Spaulding's motion to close debate, Conkling demanded tellers, and the motion was lost,—yeas, 52; nays, 62.—Congressional Globe, February 5, 1862; Ibid., p. 618.
[59] New York Tribune, July 30, 1862.