After an apology for
a dinner, I went to [Arnold] Guyot’s lecture at the Law School. Well attended
and very hot; lecture original and interesting. Thereafter discoursed with
Guyot, whom I like, and General Scott, the most urbane of conquerors. Curious
it is to observe the keen, sensitive interest with which he listens to every
whisper about nominations for the coming presidential campaign.
The Charleston
Convention will nominate Douglas, I think. Then comes the sanhedrim of the
undeveloped Third Party. It is not at all unlikely Scott may be its nominee. In
that case, it is possible the Republican Convention may adopt him. I wish
things might take that course, but hardly hope it. Neither Douglas nor Hunter
nor Banks suits me.
SOURCE: Allan Nevins
and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. 3, p. 22
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