Letters of General Joseph R. Hawley to Charles Dudley Warner, The Hartford Daily Times, November 26, 1929. The choice of a United States senator in 1851 did not go as Hawley and his friends expected, Although the senate gave its vote to Baldwin, the house balloted more than a score of times without being able to choose between Thomas H. Seymour, democrat, and Baldwin, Seymour, having been elected governor by the legislature because there was no choice by the people. Enough of the Fillmore whigs declined to accept Baldwin to prevent him from getting a majority and the whigs finally turned to Lafayette S. Foster of Norwich who was at the time no more successful.

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