Got a letter from Nicolay at Baltimore; answered by mail and
telegraph. The President positively refuses to give even a confidential
suggestion in regard to Vice-Presidency, Platform or Organization.
Everybody came back from Convention tired but sober. Nicolay
says it was a very quiet Convention. Little drinking — little quarrelling — an
earnest intention to simply register the expressed will of the people, and go
home. They were intolerant of speeches — remorselessly coughed down the crack
orators of the party.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 197-8; see Michael Burlingame & John
R. Turner Ettlinger, Editors, Inside Lincoln’s White House: The
Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, p. 200 for the full diary entry.
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