Note 167 — Chapter XV · A BREAKING-UP OF PARTY TIES 1854
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"I was a member of the first anti-Nebraska or Republican State Convention, which met at Saratoga Springs in September; but Messrs. Weed and Seward for a while stood aloof from the movement, preferring to be still regarded as Whigs."—Horace Greeley, Recollections of a Busy Life, p. 314.