At 9 A. M. left Chicago on my way home, and arrived at midnight, having been delayed several hours on the way. Gov Selden1 of New York, who was one of the delegates to the Convention, came down the road as far as Batavia. He introduced himself to me, and thanked me, on behalf of the New York delegation, for my speech of yesterday.
I had a good deal of conversation with him upon
political subjects. He thinks with great effort New York may be carried for Mr
Lincoln, but does not regard it as certain. The delegation of that
state was greatly devoted to Mr Seward, and are mortified and disappointed.
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1 Henry R. Selden, 1805-1885. Lieutenant governor of New York from 1850 to 1858.
SOURCE: The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. 1, p. 408
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