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XIX. TWEED WINS AND FALLS. 1870

XX. CONKLING PUNISHES GREELEY. 1871

XXI. TILDEN CRUSHES TAMMANY. 1871

XXII. GREELEY NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT. 1872

XXIII. DEFEAT AND DEATH OF GREELEY. 1872

XXIV. TILDEN DESTROYS HIS OPPONENTS. 1873-4

XXV. RIVALRY OF TILDEN AND CONKLING. 1875

XXVI. DEFEAT OF THE REPUBLICAN MACHINE. 1876

XXVII. TILDEN ONE VOTE SHORT. 1876

XXVIII. CONKLING AND CURTIS AT ROCHESTER. 1877

XXIX. THE TILDEN ReGIME ROUTED. 1877

x.x.x. GREENBACKERS SERVE REPUBLICANS. 1878

x.x.xI. REMOVAL OF ARTHUR AND CORNELL. 1878-9

x.x.xII. JOHN KELLY ELECTS CORNELL. 1879

x.x.xIII. STALWART AND HALF-BREED. 1880

x.x.xIV. TILDEN, KELLY, AND DEFEAT. 1880

x.x.xV. CONKLING DOWN AND OUT. 1881

x.x.xVI. CLEVELAND'S ENORMOUS MAJORITY. 1881-2

A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

CHAPTER I

THE UPRISING OF THE NORTH

1861

While politicians indecently clamoured for office, as indicated in the concluding chapter of the preceding volume, President Lincoln, whenever escape from the patronage hunters permitted, was considering the wisdom of provisioning Fort Sumter. Grave doubt obtained as to the government's physical ability to succour the fort, but, a.s.suming it possible, was it wise as a political measure? The majority of the Cabinet, including Seward, voted in the negative, giving rise to the report that Sumter would be abandoned. Union people generally, wis.h.i.+ng to support the brave and loyal action of Major Anderson and his little band, vigorously protested against such an exhibition of weakness, and the longer the Government hesitated the more vigorously the popular will resented such a policy. Finally, on March 29, in spite of General Scott's advice and Secretary Seward's opinion, the President, guided by public sentiment, directed a relief expedition to be ready to sail as early as April 6.

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