[246] "The following is the vote for presidential elector-at-large: Horace Greeley, 215; Preston King, 191½; Daniel S. Dickinson, 143; Richard M. Blatchford, 86; John A. King, 10; Lyman Tremaine, 13; J.S.T. Stranahan, 27; Thurlow Weed, 1."—Ibid., September 8.
[247] "The nomination of Horace Greeley for elector-at-large is a bitter pill. The Weed men make no secret that Fenton's name is the only thing that will save the ticket."—New York Herald, September 8.
[248] Held at Albany on September 14.
[249] New York Herald, September 14, 1864.
[250] Ibid., September 16.
[251] "Seymour tried to get the nomination at Chicago by the same tricky means he has secured it at Albany,—by declaring beforehand that he would not be a candidate. He failed at Chicago because of the overwhelming popularity of McClellan; he succeeded at Albany by his friends seizing a moment to nominate him when the convention was in a delirium of enthusiasm at his apparent self-sacrifice in persisting to decline."—New York Herald (editorial), September 17, 1864.
[252] From Chauncey M. Depew's speech, March 23, 1901.—Addresses of, p. 105.
"The ticket nominated is as follows: Governor, Horatio Seymour of Oneida; Lieutenant-Governor, David R. Floyd Jones of Queens; Canal Commissioner, Jarvis Lord of Monroe; Prison Inspector, David B. McNeil of Clinton; electors-at-large, William E. Kelley of Dutchess and Washington Hunt of Niagara."—New York Herald, September 16, 1864.
[253] Official Records, Vol. 43, Part 1, p. 26.
[254] New York Times, September 9, 1864; Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1864, p. 134.