[657] George W. Julian, Political Recollections, p. 348.
[658] He died November 29, 1872.
[659] "In the darkest hour my suffering wife left me, none too soon for she had suffered too deeply and too long. I laid her in the ground with hard dry eyes. Well, I am used up. I cannot see before me. I have slept little for weeks and my eyes are still hard to close, while they soon open again." Letter to his friend, Mason W. Tappan of New Hampshire.—Hollister's Life of Colfax, p. 387, note.
[660] New York Tribune, December 5, 1872.
[661] Cornell resigned as surveyor of the port and was elected to the Assembly.
[662] The Democrats voted for Charles Wheaton of Dutchess, distinguished locally as a county judge.
[663] Alfred R. Conkling, Life of Conkling, p. 451.
[664] Report of Civil Service Commission, 1871, p. 18.
[665] Conkling, Life of Conkling, p. 656.
[666] "He who does a thing by the agency of another, does it himself."