before the
election, "and they are now using money lavishly. This stimulates and
to some extent inspires confidence, and all the confederates are at
work. Some of our friends are nervous. But I have no fear of the
result in this State."[595]

[Footnote 589: Thurlow Weed Barnes, _Life of Thurlow Weed_, Vol. 2, p.
297.]

[Footnote 590: "The names of eighty-one thousand New York men who
voted for Fillmore in 1856 are inscribed on Republican poll-lists."--New
York _Tribune_, September 11, 1860.]

[Footnote 591: F.W. Seward, _Life of W.H. Seward_, Vol. 2, p. 471.]

[Footnote 592: October 18, 1860.]

[Footnote 593: Charleston _Mercury_, cited by _National
Intelligencer_, November 1, 1860; Richmond _Enquirer_, November 2.]

[Footnote 594: Horace Greeley, _American Conflict_, Vol. 1, p. 300.]

[Footnote 595: Thurlow Weed Barnes, _Life of Thurlow Weed_, Vol. 2, p.
300.]

After the election, returns came in rapidly. Before midnight they
foreshadowed Lincoln's success, and the next morning's _Tribune_
estimated that the Republicans had carried the electoral and state
tickets by 30,000 to 50,000, with both branches of the Legislature and
twenty-three out of thirty-three congressmen. The official figures did
not change this prophecy, except to fix Lincoln's majority at 50,136
and Morgan's plurality at 63,460. Lincoln received 4374 votes more
than Morgan, but Kelley ran 27,698 behind the fusion electoral ticket,
showing that the Bell and Everett men declined to vote for the Softs'
candidate for governor. Brady's total vote, 19,841, marked the
pro-slavery candidate's small support, leaving Morgan a clear majority
of 43,619.[596] "Mr. Dickinson and myself," said James T. Brady, six
years later, in his tribute to the former's memory, "belonged to the
small, despairing band in this State who carried into the political
contest of the North, for the last time, the flag of the South,
contending that the South should enjoy to the utmost, and with liberal
recognition, all the rights she could fairly claim under the
Constitution of the United States. How small that band was all
familiar with the political history of this State can tell."[597]

[Footnote 596: Edwin D. Morgan, 358,272; William Kelley, 294,812;
James T. Brady, 19,841.--_Civil List, State of New York_ (1887), p.
166.]

[Footnote 597: Address at Bar meeting in New York City upon death of
Daniel S. Dickinson.]

CHAPTER XXV

GREELEY, WEED, AND SECESSION

1860