Note 52 — Chapter VII · SILAS WRIGHT AND MILLARD FILLMORE 1844
Reading edition
F.W. Seward, Life of W.H. Seward, Vol. 1, p. 723.
"Wright was a strong man the day before his nomination for governor. He fell far, and if left alone will be not, what he might have been, George I. to William of Orange, lineal heir to Jackson, through Van Buren. The wiseacres in New York speak of him with compliment, 'this distinguished statesman;' yet they bring all their small artillery to bear upon him, and give notice that he is demolished. The praise they bestow is very ill concealed, but less injurious to us than their warfare, conducted in their mode."—Letter of W.H. Seward to Thurlow Weed, Ibid., Vol. 1, p. 725.