[108] Ibid., p. 161.
[109] Laws of 1842. Ch. 130, title 6, article 4, sec. 32.
[110] Horace Bemis of Steuben.
[111] The writer is indebted to Mr. Depew for the interviews between himself, Van Buren, and Callicot.
[112] Albany Evening Journal, December 10, 1862.
[113] Sedgwick, assailed by damaging charges growing out of his chairmanship of the Naval Committee, failed to be renominated for Congress in 1864 after a most bitter contest in which 130 ballots were taken.
[114] New York Journal of Commerce, February 3, 1863.
"Informal ballot: Morgan, 25; King, 16; Dickinson, 15; Sedgwick, 11; Field, 7; Raymond, 6; Hunt, 4; Selden, 1; blank, 1. Whole number, 86. Necessary to a choice, 44.
"First formal ballot: Morgan, 39; King, 16; Dickinson, 11; Raymond, 8; Sedgwick, 7; Field, 5.
"Second formal ballot: Morgan, 50; Dickinson, 13; King, 11; Raymond, 9; Field, 2; Sedgwick, 1."—Ibid., February 3.