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The policy of the anti-Seward delegates was therefore quickly developed to use Lincoln's popularity as a means to defeat Seward. The credit of the nomination is claimed by many men, and by several delegations, but every such claim is wholly fictitious. Lincoln was chosen not by personal intrigue, but through political necessity.
Yet actually by reason of these very qualifications it was now admitted that the all-important "October States" of Indiana and Pennsylvania could not be carried by the Republicans if Seward were nominated; while Greeley, sitting in the convention as a substitute for a delegate from Oregon, cast as much of the weight of New York as he could lift into the anti-Seward scale.
Weed gave me information in regard to candidates for office in the State of New York, including their relations to the factions that existed usually Seward and anti-Seward and with as much fairness as he could have commanded if he had had no relation to either faction. As I had time remaining at the end of my call upon Mr. Weed, and as I had in mind Mr.
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