[228] Statement to Preston King in 1854. Harper's Weekly, September 16, 1876.
[229] Letter to William Kent in October, 1860.
[230] Horace Greeley, The American Conflict, Vol. 1, pp. 388-394. William H. Russell's Diary, entry March 17, 1861, p. 20.
[231] Harper's Weekly, September 9, 1876.
[232] John Bigelow, Life of Tilden, Vol. 1, pp. 173-174.
[233] Harper's Weekly, September 9 and 27, 1876.
[234] "Never did men work harder than Messrs. Guthrie of Kentucky and Tilden of New York. All they asked finally was that the platform should not be so strong for peace that it would drive the war vote from them."—New York Herald, September 5, 1864.
"Vallandigham wrote the second, the material resolution, of the Chicago platform, and carried it through the sub-committee and the general committee, in spite of the most desperate and persistent opposition on the part of Tilden and his friends, Mr. Cassidy himself in an adjoining room labouring to defeat it."—New York News, October 22, 1864.
"The platform which declared the war a failure was jointly concocted by Seymour and Vallandigham."—New York Tribune, November 5, 1868.
[235] "Governor Seymour was an elegant and accomplished gentleman with a high-bred manner which never unbent, and he was always faultlessly dressed. He looked the ideal of an aristocrat, and yet he was and continued to be until his death the idol of the Democracy."—Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew, November, 1896, to April, 1902, p. 105.