[442] New York Evening Post, November 4, 1868; Harper's Weekly, September 30, 1876.

[443] New York Times, November 2, 1868.

[444] New York Tribune, November 6, 1868.

[445] Ibid., November 7.

[446] Ibid., November 23.

[447] From speech of Conkling delivered in the U.S. Senate, April 24, 1879.—Thomas V. Cooper, American Politics, Book 3, p. 180.

[448] The Nation, October 29, 1868.

[449] The Nation, October 29, 1868.

[450] Ibid., March 4, 1869.

[451] New York Tribune, January 13 and 18, 1869.