271.] [Footnote 255: _Ibid._, p.

273.] [Footnote 256: _Ibid._, p.

277.] [Footnote 257: This same view was maintained, though without stating details, by Henry Adams, as late as 1907.

See his "Education of Henry Adams," Private Edition, p.

128.] [Footnote 258: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, Ch.