Arrived in Chicago before breakfast this morning and stopped at Briggs House. Head quarters of our delegation at the Tremont House. We have had a busy day arranging the programme of proceedings. By request I went in Chicago company with Judge Davis and Tom Marshall to meet and confer with the Maine delegation; and at their solicitation made them a speech. Also called upon the delegation of New Hampshire At night we received a message from the Massachusetts delegation, and called upon them at their rooms. I addressed them also upon the aspect of political affairs in Illinois
SOURCE: The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. 1, p. 406-7
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