thinks Seward cannot be elected, [104],
and believes McLean alone can beat him, [104];
Lincoln his first choice, [104];
Lincoln, in reply, avows his own ambition, and discusses other candidates, [104], [105];
divers letters to, on Lincoln's nomination, [106]-[107];
post-nomination letters of Lincoln to, [108];
speaks for Lincoln at ratification meeting, [109], [110];
confidential letters of Lincoln to, against compromise, [111], [112],
and on Buchanan's reputed purpose to surrender So. Carolina forts, [112];
his own views on compromise set forth in letter to E. C. Larned, [113], [114];