Note 392 — Chapter XXVIII · LINCOLN, SEWARD, AND THE UNION 1860-1861
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"Charles Sumner's lecture in New York brought a 'Barnburner' or Buffalo party around him. They gave nine cheers for the passage in which he describes Lafayette as rejecting all and every compromise, and the knowing ones told him those cheers laid out Thurlow Weed, and then he came and told me, of course."—Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 308.