Note 128 — Chapter XIII · THE WHIGS’ WATERLOO 1850-1852
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"It was certain that Mr. Dickinson could not carry New York.... Governor Marcy was strongly urged in many quarters, and it was thought the State might be carried by him; but many were of the opinion that his friends kept his name prominently before the public with the hope of obtaining a cabinet appointment for him and thus securing the influence of that section of the New York Democracy to which he belonged. This was precisely the result that followed."—Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John A. Dix, Vol. 1, p. 266.