The State Convention
yesterday appears to have got along better in Connecticut than I apprehended,
yet there is obviously Radical animosity lurking and fermenting there which
will be likely to show itself soon. Among the leaders, most of whom have been
impregnated with Radical views, there is no love for the President nor any
intention to support his policy. In Hartford they detest Dixon and Cleveland,
who support the Administration, and they like Hawley, who is much given to the
negro, but is really well-intentioned and as fair-minded as one can be who has
been a zealous Abolitionist, and is hopeful of political honors.
SOURCE: Gideon
Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and
Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866, p. 433
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