[819] Conkling, Life of Conkling, pp. 538-549; New York Tribune, October 1, 1877.
[820] After the death of Thomas B. Reed of Maine, this speech was found in his scrap-book among the masterpieces of sarcasm and invective.
[821] White, Autobiography, Vol. 1, p. 171.
[822] "Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle beneath the shadow of the British oak chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field, that of course they are many in number, or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."—Edmund Burke. George H. Jennings, Anecdotal History of the British Parliament, p. 159.
[823] New York Tribune (correspondence), September 28.
[824] Alfred R. Conkling, Life of Conkling, p. 540.
[825] Edward Cary, Life of Curtis, p. 258.
[826] Curtis's amendment was defeated by 311 to 110.
[827] The candidates were: Secretary of State, John C. Churchill, Oswego; Comptroller, Francis Sylvester, Columbia; Treasurer, William L. Bostwick, Ithaca; Attorney-General, Grenville Tremaine, Albany; Engineer, Howard Soule, Onondaga.
[828] The Democratic State convention met at Albany on October 3, 1877.