[31] Mr. Lincoln was elected President on the 7th Nov., 1860.
[32] A kind man and enjoying the confidence of Mr. Marcy who had been
Secretary of War under President Pierce.
[33] Mr. O'Sullivan had been appointed, by President Buchanan, Minister
to Portugal.
[34] It is presumed that the work here referred to is an account from
Van Buren's pen of the administrations of President Jackson and his
own. It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Van Buren did not, to that
extent, at least, become his own biographer.
[35] Mr. Gillett was a neighbor, a friend, and the authorized
biographer of Silas Wright. His letter is only interesting as another
illustration of the diversities of opinion among the spectators, about
the first thing to do when the neighbor's house is on fire.
The letter of Mr. Tilden to Judge William Kent first appeared in the
_Evening Post_ in 1860, and was republished in the New York _World_ in
1863.
[36] Mr. Taylor was appointed Harbor Master of New York, in Jan'y,
1873, by Governor Hoffman.
[37] Mr. Hogeboom was a lawyer in Hudson, Columbia County, of which
county Mr. Tilden also was a native.
[38] A lawyer from Watertown, Mass., who settled in New York city, and
was the author of _Several Studies of the Federal Constitution_, of
_The Last Years of Daniel Webster_, and _The Law of Copyright_. In the
Civil War his sympathies were with the insurgent States. He died in
1894.
[39] Martin Van Buren had died in July, 1862.
[40] Mr. Eames took the first honors of his class at Harvard
University; studied law in New York; married the eldest daughter of
Judge Campbell, then Surrogate of New York city. On the election of
Polk he took up his residence in Washington, and during the Civil War
was much employed by the government in the Supreme Court, as counsel of
the Navy Department, in resisting illegal claims.
[41] The difference in the amounts received by General Grant and the
amounts subscribed was doubtless cash from the donors whose names were
withheld.
1868-1871