JOHN VAN DYKE.
"MY DEAR SIR: Allow me to thank you for your kind notice of me in the Philadelphia Convention.
"When you meet Judge Dayton present my respects, and tell him I think him a far better man than I for the position he is in, and that I shall support both him and Colonel Fremont most cordially.
Present my best respects to Mrs.V., and believe me, "Yours truly, "A.

LINCOLN." [3] On the sixteenth ballot Buchanan received 168 votes, of which 121 were from the free-States and 47 from the slave-States; Douglas received 122 votes, of which 49 were from the free-States and 73 from the slave-States; Cass received 6 votes, all from the free-States; Pierce had been finally dropped on the previous ballot.--"Proceedings of the Cincinnati Convention," p.

45.
[4] The vote more in detail was as follows: For Buchanan, slave-States, Alabama, 9; Arkansas, 4; Delaware, 3; Florida, 3; Georgia, 10; Kentucky, 12; Louisiana, 6; Mississippi, 7; Missouri, 9; North Carolina, 10; South Carolina, 8; Tennessee, 12; Texas, 4; Virginia, 15.

Free States, California, 4; Illinois, 11; Indiana, 13; New Jersey, 7; Pennsylvania, 27.

Total, 174.
For Fremont, free-States, Connecticut, 6; Iowa, 4; Maine, 8; Massachusetts, 13; Michigan, 6; New Hampshire, 5; New York, 35; Ohio, 23; Rhode Island, 4; Vermont, 5; Wisconsin, 5.