Note 238 — Chapter VIII · SEYMOUR’S PRESIDENTIAL FEVER 1864
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"McClellan's supporters are not scared by any paper pellets of the brain, wise or otherwise, which ever came from the midnight sessions of a resolution committee in the hurly-burly of a national convention."—Speech of Robert C. Winthrop in New York City, September 17, 1864.—Addresses and Speeches, Vol. 2, p. 598.