[1] NH, II, 289-90. John Van Dyke of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a Whig representative in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses. In his speech before the Republican National Convention on June 19, he paid tribute to Lincoln as follows: ``. . . I knew Abraham Lincoln in Congress well, and for months I sat by his side. I knew him all through, and knew him to be a first-rate man in every respect; and if it had not been the will and pleasure of the Convention to have selected William L. Dayton, I know with what perfect alacrity I would have gone for him. . . .'' Lincoln received 110 votes for the vice-presidential nomination on the first ballot. Senator Dayton of New Jersey received the nomination. Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions, Minneapolis, 1893, p. 59 ff.
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].
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