71, 305, 397;
Reuben E. Fenton, 1869-75, 222;
Francis Kernan, 1875-81, 321;
Thomas C. Platt, 1881, 468;
Warner Miller, 1881-7, 481;
Elbridge G. Lapham, 1881-5, 482.

Sessions, Loren B., a state senator, iii. 437;
decides to vote for Blaine, 1880, 437;
severely criticised, 437;
charged with bribery, 1881, 480;
acquitted, 480, note.

Seward, Frederick W., nominated for sec. of state, 1874, iii. 325;
defeated, 331.

Seward, William H., elected state senator, i. 377;
appearance of, 377;
career and character of, 378;
his boyhood, 378;
gifts, 378;
an active Clintonian, 379;
first meeting with Weed, 379;
Weed on, 380;
joined Anti-Masons, 380;
visits John Quincy Adams, 380;
Whigs nominate for gov., 1834, 402;
fitness and red hair, 402-3;
bright prospects of election, 402-3;
defeated, 404;
indifference of, 405.

Nominated for gov., 1838, ii. 19-21;
elected, 29;
accepts Weed's dictatorship, 31-3, 36-8;
first message of, 34-5;
tribute to DeWitt Clinton, 35;
prophetic of Erie canal, 36;
renominated, 1840, 42;
elected, 45;
weakness of, 45;
reasons for, 48-50;
declines renomination, 50-1;
unhappy, 1844, 84-5;
predicts disunion, 86;
Clay's Alabama letter, 87-8;
on Wilmot Proviso, 102;
absence of, from constitutional con., 1846, 104-5;
picture of candidates, 1846, 121;
on the stump, 1848, 141-3;
first meeting with Lincoln, 143;
elected U.S. senator, 145-7;
gratitude to Weed, 148;
opposes compromises, 1850, 152;
higher law speech, 152;
Whigs approve his course, 153-5;
opposes repeal of Missouri Compromise, 190-3;
Blair on, 192-3;
opposed a Rep. party, 1854, 200;
re-elected to U.S. senate, 205-7;
Raymond on, 205;
_Evening Post_ on, 205;
opposed by Know-Nothings, 205-6;
gratitude to Weed, 208;
speech for Rep. party, 217-8;
criticised, 219-20;
speech on Kansas, 225-6;
declined nomination for President, 229-32;
hinted Weed betrayed him, 230;
grouty, 239;
suspicions of trimming, 252;
irrepressible conflict speech, 252-3;
criticism of, 254;
goes to Europe, 260-1;
bill to admit Kansas, 261;
speech on, 265-7;
criticised as bid for Presidency, 267-8;
Phillips, Garrison, and Greeley on, 268;
confident of nomination for President, 1860, 283-4;
on Greeley's fidelity, 284, note;
character of opposition, 285;
defeated on third ballot, 289;
sorrow of friends,