[115] New York Tribune, October 7, 1863.
The Democratic caucus stood 28 for Erastus Corning, 25 for Fernando Wood, and scattering 18.
The vote of the Senate stood: Morgan, 23; Erastus Corning, 7; 2 absent or silent. On the first ballot the Assembly gave Morgan 64, Corning 62, Fernando Wood 1, John A. Dix 1 (cast by Speaker Callicot). On a second ballot all the Unionists voted with Callicot for Dix, giving him 65 to 63 for Corning and placing him in nomination. In joint convention Morgan was elected by 86 votes to 70 for Corning, one (Callicot's) for Dix, and 1 for Dickinson.—Ibid., February 4.
[116] "My dear Weed: It is difficult for me to express my personal obligations to you for this renewed evidence of your friendship, as manifested by the result of yesterday's proceedings at Albany."—Letter of Edwin D. Morgan, February 3, 1863. Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 430.
[117] Albany Evening Journal, January 28, 1863.
[118] New York Tribune, January 30, 1863.
[119] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 485.
[120] Albany Evening Journal, January 28, 1863.
[121] "Let it pass whether or not the editor of the Tribune has been intensely ambitious for office. It would have been a blessed thing for the country if the editor of the Journal had been impelled by the same passion. For avarice is more ignoble than ambition, and the craving for jobs has a more corrupting influence, alike on the individual and the public, than aspiration to office."—New York Tribune, December 12, 1862.
[122] Thurlow Weed, Autobiography, pp. 360-361.