A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3

by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

[142] Ibid., p. 23.

[143] James B. Fry, New York and the Conscription, p. 33.

[144] New York Tribune, Herald, Times, and World, July 15; also, Public Record of Horatio Seymour, pp. 127-128.

[145] New York Tribune, Herald, and Times.

[146] James B. Fry, New York and the Conscription, p. 14. "Seymour showed his lack of executive ability by not filling up the quota of New York by volunteers in less than a month after the Conscription Act was passed. This a clever executive could easily have done and so avoided all trouble."—New York Herald, September 11, 1863.

[147] James B. Fry, New York and the Conscription, p. 32.

[148] The Public Record of Horatio Seymour, p. 153.

[149] The constitutionality of the Conscription Act of March 3, 1863, was affirmed by the United States Circuit Courts of Pennsylvania and Illinois.

[150] The Public Record of Horatio Seymour, p. 156.

[151] Wakeman was postmaster at New York City.