[620] July 11.
[621] Century Dictionary.
[622] Wilson received 364½ votes to 321½ for Colfax of Indiana, who had declared his intention to retire from public life. When, later, he changed his mind, Wilson possessed the advantage.
[623] New York Tribune, February 15, 1872.
[624] Ibid., April 11.
[625] For narration of this coup de main, see Morgan Dix, Life of John A. Dix, Vol. 2, pp. 163-167.
[626] The Century, March, 1885, p. 734.
[627] August 21, 1872; New York Tribune, August 22.
"Senator Robertson failed to be governor only from lack of boldness."—Ibid., May 8, 1880.
[628] Henry Clews, Fifty Years in Wall Street, pp. 307-309; New York Herald, August 22.