Had a long interview with Governor Morgan on affairs in New
York and the country. He says Wadsworth will be elected by an overwhelming
majority; says the best arrangement would have been the nomination of Dix by
the Democrats and then by the Republicans, so as to have had no contest. This
was the scheme of Weed and Seward. Says a large majority of the convention was
for renominating him (Morgan). I have little doubt that Weed and Seward could
have made Morgan's nomination unanimous, but Weed intrigued deeper and lost. He
greatly preferred Morgan to Wadsworth, but, trying to secure Dix, lost both.
Morgan says Aspinwall, whom he met here yesterday, had seen and got from
McClellan the general army order just published sustaining the Emancipation
Proclamation. Has some speculation in regard to McClellan's prospects, designs,
and expectations as to the Presidency; doubts if he wants it, but thinks he
cannot avoid it, — all which is of the New York political bill of fare.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30, 1864,
p. 162-3
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