Note 303 — Chapter XXIV · THE FIGHT OF THE FUSIONISTS 1860
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"Seward charged his defeat chiefly to Greeley. He felt toward that influential editor as much vindictiveness as was possible in a man of so amiable a nature. But he did not retire to his tent."—James F. Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 494.
"The magnanimity of Mr. Seward, since the result of the convention was known," wrote James Russell Lowell, "has been a greater ornament to him and a greater honour to his party than his election to the Presidency would have been."—Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860; Lowell's Political Essays, p. 34.