Note 251 — Chapter IX · FENTON DEFEATS SEYMOUR 1864

"Seymour tried to get the nomination at Chicago by the same tricky means he has secured it at Albany,—by declaring beforehand that he would not be a candidate. He failed at Chicago because of the overwhelming popularity of McClellan; he succeeded at Albany by his friends seizing a moment to nominate him when the convention was in a delirium of enthusiasm at his apparent self-sacrifice in persisting to decline."—New York Herald (editorial), September 17, 1864.