I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard
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No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.
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I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.
- Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard