bear my best having been recently bought and as yet imperfectly drained is still nor do i expect that farming � or anything else � will pay without better than i have yet been able to accord it do you not perceive said one near to me that your man there does not more than half work certainly i replied i am quite aware of it were he disposed to be efficient he would work his own land not mine you can scarcely hire any work weu done to which you cannot give personal attention newspapers by would be more than but i close with a confident assertion that good farming will pay � yes does pay � right here by new york � pay generally and pay well of course he who capital must work to disadvantage in this as in everything else and a little capital wiu go further in the far west than on the crowded but i feel certain that even could make money by farming in county if i could give my time and mind to it and that a good farmer with adequate means can in following his do as well near this city as a reasonable man could expect or wisely desire weed and as i had first engaged in political strife at the invitation of mr weed and had thus been brought very soon afterward into familiar and confidential relations with his next friend mr william h i was identified with if not thoroughly devoted to their mutual fortunes for the next fifteen or sixteen years while the in i wrote and reported imperfectly proceedings for mr weed s paper the evening journal and though i had no part in mr for governor in did whatever i could to help elect him and so at his in he had previously been state elected in but had been badly defeated by william l when first a candidate for governor in when after four years of the star was again in the in was a zealous if not very effective advocate of his election to the united states apart from politics i liked the man though not blind to his faults his natural instincts were humane and he hated slavery and all its though a seeming necessity constrained him to write in to this intensely pro slavery city a pro slavery letter which was at war with his real or at least with his subsequent convictions though of he had been an man an anti and was now thoroughly a the policy of more extensive and vigorous internal improvement had no more zealous champion by nature genial and averse to recollections of a busy life pomp ceremony and formality few public men of liis early prime were better calculated to attract and young men of his own party and holding views on most points with his yet he had faults which his accession to power soon displayed in bold relief his natural tendencies were toward a government not merely paternal but prodigal � one which in its to make every one prosperous if not rich was very likely to all in general if not in general few have favored few for more lavish than he above the suspicion of money into his own pocket he has a rooted dislike to opposing a project or bill whereby any of his attached friends are to profit and conceited as we all are i think most men exceed him in the art of concealing from others their faith in their own sagacity and mr weed was of mould and fibre � tall robust dark shrewd resolute and not over scrupulous � keen sighted though not far seeing writing slowly and with difficulty he was for twenty years the most and writer of on the american press in pecuniary matters he was generous to a fault while poor he is said to be less so since he became rich but i am no longer in a position to know i cannot doubt however that if he had never seen wall street or washington had never heard of the stock board and had lived in some yet country where is never bought nor sold his life would have been more useful and happy i was sitting beside him in his room soon after governor s election when he opened a letter from a brother which ran thus � dear weed i want to be a bank you know how to fix it do so and draw on me for whatever you may see fit yours truly weed and in an instant his face black with mingled rage and mortification my god said he i knew that my political thought me a scoundrel but i never till now supposed that my friends did he at once responded to the to this � sir i have received your letter and shall lay it before the governor elect with whom it will doubtless have the influence it deserves yours though generally in hearty accord these fast friends were not entirely so bom in comfortable circumstances and educated a gentleman had none of the poor white pr against while it was otherwise with weed whose origin training had been different my new land birth and saved me from sharing this infirmity to which the poverty and obscurity of my boy y hood might else have exposed me i was early brought into collision with both my on the subject of a law every who had been active in the political of this city was instinctively and intensely a champion of a of legal knowing well by sad experience that in its absence enormous to our damage are the rule and honest and legal the exception so in the first of our state that was au over a was introduced with my very hearty assent and active support which provided for a of here and it had made such before it attracted the serious 