_Ibid._ 245.
[98] Greeley's _Amer. Conflict_, i. 326.
[99] _Ibid._ i. 306, 307.
[100] Mr. Blaine says that Lincoln "was chosen in spite of expressions
far more radical than those of Mr. Seward." _Twenty Years of Congress_,
i. 169.
[101] "In strong common sense, in sagacity and sound judgment, in rugged
integrity of character, Mr. Hamlin has had no superior among public
men." Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, i. 170.
[102] Lamon, 453.
[103] McClure adds, or rather mentions as the chief cause, Seward's
position on the public-school question in New York. _Lincoln and Men of
War-Times_, 28, 29.
[104] "To the country at large he was an obscure, not to say an unknown
man." _Life of W.L. Garrison_, by his children, iii. 503.
[105] _Life of W.L. Garrison_, by his children, iii. 503.
[106] See remarks of McClure, _Lincoln and Men of War-Times_, 28, 29.
[107] See N. and H. ii. 284 n.
[108] See letter of May 17, 1859, to Dr. Canisius, Holland, 196; N. and
H. ii. 181.
[109] _Life of W.L. Garrison_, by his children, iii. 502.
[110] This table is taken from Stanwood's _History of Presidential
Elections_.
[111] N. and H. iii. 146.
[112] The total popular vote was 4,680,193. Lincoln had 1,866,452. In
North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee, no vote was cast for the Lincoln ticket;
in Virginia only 1929 voted it.
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