, 158;
avoids slavery issue, 1851, 163-5;
loses state, 165;
Greeley on, 165-6;
Fish on, 166;
defeated, 1852, 179;
carries state, 1853, 189;
Clark nominated for gov., 199;
elected, 203;
unites with Anti-Nebraska Dems., 194;
see Rep. party.

Whig platform, 1852, Greeley on, ii. 175;
Seward on, 175.

Whigs, during Revolution, i. 24;
moderate and ultra, 24.

White, Andrew D., about Ira Harris, iii. 166;
presents Conkling's name for U.S. senator, 170;
about Seward, 213;
writes of election frauds, 1868, 215;
ch'm. Rep. state con., 1871, 258-9;
criticism of, 239-60 and note.

White, Hugh L., candidate of Southern Whigs, 1836, ii. 11.

Whitney, William C., an organiser of County Democracy, iii. 483.

Whittlesey, Frederick, editor, Rochester _Republican_, i. 370;
strong Anti-Mason, 370;
confidence in Weed, 375.

Wickham, William H., nominated for mayor of New York, 1874, iii. 314;
character, 314, note;
elected, 319.

Wide-awakes, marching body of young men, 1860, ii. 328;
their great number, 328.

Wilkin, James W., defeated for U.S. senator, i. 211;
result of a bargain, 211-2.

Wilkin, Samuel J., nominated for lt.-gov., ii. 80;
character and career of, 80;
defeated, 89.

Wilkinson, James, commands on Canadian border, i. 223;
career and character of, 223-4;
fails, quarrels, and retires in disgrace, 225.

Willers, Diedrich, nominated for sec. of state, 1871, iii. 273;
defeated, 275;
renominated, 1873, 308;
elected, 309.

Willet, Marinus, member first constitutional con., i. 5;
supports Burr, 1804, 138;
appointed mayor New York, 155;
army service, 155, 184-5;
removed from mayoralty, 165;
nominated for lt.-gov., 184;
defeated, 185;
opposed Jackson for President, 357;
presides at meeting, 357.

Williams, Elisha, gifts and career of, i. 207;
sneers at Van Buren, 255;
opposes Tompkins' accounts, 276;
member of constitutional con., 1821, 298;
nominated for Assembly, 1827, 358.

Williams, Robert, in Council, i. 171;
known as Judas Iscariot, 172.

Williams, William, nominated for State treasurer, 1861, iii. 24, note;
defeated, 29.

Willman, Andreas, nominated for prison insp., 1862, iii. 45, note;
defeated, 51.

Wilmot, David, ch'm. Chicago con., 1860, ii. 282.

Wilmot Proviso, supported by Preston King, ii. 102;
the issue presented, 126, note;
voted down by Whig Nat. con., 1848, 138.

Winans, Ora