[647] New York Tribune, Syracuse Herald, and Watertown Times.
[648] New York Tribune, August 22.
[649] New York Times, July 24. "The longest and greatest campaign speech of his life."—Alfred R. Conkling, Life of Conkling, p. 436.
[650] Hollister's Life of Colfax, p. 387, note.
[651] The same article enumerates some of the charges published against him: "In Washington he was a briber. In Albany he was the head of the lobby. In New York he was a partner in the Ring frauds. He defended the rascalities of Tweed. He sold the influence of his paper to Tammany Hall. He intrigued to restore the thieves to power. He was involved in schemes for robbing the national treasury. He was plotting the payment of the Confederate debt. He had promised pensions to Rebel soldiers. He was an original Secessionist. He was once a slave-trader in Memphis. He was the friend of the Ku-Klux and ballot-box stuffers.... Dix blamed him for expressing ten or twelve years ago sentiments identical with those of Dix himself."—New York Tribune, November 22, 1872.
[652] Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Richardson, Vol. 7, p. 223.
[653] After the North Carolina election would-be Liberals rejoined the Republican party in great numbers.
[654] Grant, 440,759; Greeley, 387,279; majority, 53,480. Dix, 447,801; Kernan, 392,350; majority, 55,451. Robinson, 442,297; Depew, 397,754; majority, 44,543. Tremaine, 438,456; Cox, 400,697; majority, 37,759.
[655] Havermeyer, 53,806; Lawrence, 45,398; O'Brien, 31,121.
[656] Seymour (1868), 429,883. Greeley (1872), 387,279. Kernan (1872), 392,350. Cox (1872), 400,697.