Note 173 — Chapter XVI · THE FORMATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 1854-5
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"There is about as much infidelity among Whigs at Albany as was expected; perhaps a little more. But there is also a counteracting agency in the other party, it is said, which promises to be an equilibrium."—F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 2, p. 243.