...s, with a majority of the delegates and the time and place arranged to their liking, the Lincoln engineers began to flatter themselves that the succession was settled. Mr. Seward, the Binir family, Simon Cameron , Thurlow Weed, and the Chevalier Forney, were among the happiest of men. But their rejoicing began too soon. Mutterings of discontent from various anti-Lincoln journals of the party began to ...