[284] For more than a year Van Buren's health had been impaired, and in the spring of 1866 he went to Europe. But a change of climate brought no relief, and he died, on the return voyage, at the age of fifty-six. That the people deeply mourned his loss is the evidence of those, still living, to whom there was something dashing and captivating even in his errors.
[285] Senate Ex. Doc. No. 2, 39th Cong., 1st Session.
[286] McPherson, History of Reconstruction, pp. 67-68.
[287] Congressional Globe, Vol. 37, Part 1, pp. 73-74.
[288] New York and the New England States except Connecticut, although New York required a property qualification, but none for the white.
[289] Congressional Globe, Vol. 37, Part 1, pp. 120-123.
[290] Congressional Globe, Vol. 37, Part 2, pp. 1307-1308.
[291] Congressional Globe, p. 474.
[292] Congressional Globe, Appendix, p. 124.
[293] T.W. Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 1, p. 630.