Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-16

should have occdHsa q YOU Iflt dia occur
to me, was not the man to ask you for IT,
think that should not have been necessary.
| only remember that No friend at Albany
inquired as io my pecunialy circumstances;
that your hiend (but not mine) Robert q
Wshuore, was one Df the chief dispensers Of
your patronage here; and that such deYoled
oompatriots as A. H. Wells and John Hooks
were lifted by You out Of pauperism into in
dependence, as / am glad was not; and yet
en- inquiry from you as to my needs and
means ct that time would have been timely,
and held ever in grateful remembrance.
In the Harrison campaign Of 1870, was
again designated 70 edit campaign paper. /
published Il as well, and ought to hare made
something by it, in spite ofits extremely low
price; my extreme poverty was 1he main
reason why did not Il compelled me to
hire press-work, mailing, &c. done by the
Job, and high charges for extra work nearly
ate me up. At the close, I was still without
property and in debt but this paper had
rather improved my position.
Now came the great scramble Of the swell
mob Of coon minstrels and cider-suckers at
Washington-I not being counted in. Several
regiments Of them went on from this city
but no one Of the whole crowd-I say Il who
should not-had done so much toward Gen.
Harrison's nomination and election as yours
respectfully. asked nothing, expected
nothing; but you, Gov. Seward, ought to
have asked that be Postmaster of New X ork.
Your asking would have been in vain, but Il
would have been an act Of grace neither
wasted nor undeserVed.
soon after started the Tribune because
was urged to do 50 BY certain Of your friends,
and because such paper was needed here
was promised certain peeuniary aid In So
doing; It might have been given me without
cost or risk to any one. All ever bad was a
loan by piecemeal of $1,000 from James
CoggeshalI, God bless his honored memory
did not ask for this and think it is the
sole one case in which ever received a pecu-
mary favor from political associate. I am
very thankful that he did not die till it was
fully repaid. qH...
And let me here honor one grateful recol-
lection. When the Wing party under your
rule had Offices to give, my name was never
thought Of; but when in '42-9 we were hope
lessly out of power, was h0nored with the
party nomination for State Printer. When
we came again to have State Printer to
elsel as well as nominate, the place went to
Weed, as it ought Yet it is worth some
thing to know that there was once time
when it was not deemed too great sacrifice
to recognize me as belonging 70 your house
hold. If new office had not since been ere
ated on purpose to give its valuable patron
age TO II. J. Raymond, and enable St. John
to show forth his Times as the organ Of the
Wing State Administration, I should have
been still more grateful -af saf-E-
In 1s4S your star again rose, and my
warmest hopes were realized in your election
to the Senate. was no longer needy and
bad no more claim than desire to be recog-
hized by Gen. Taylor. / think had some
claim to forbearance from you. What re-
eeiVed thereupon was a most humilisting lee
ture in the shape of decision in the libel
ease Of Redfeld and Pringle, and an Obliga-
ton to publish it in my own and the other
journal of our supposed firms thought and
still think this lecture needlessly cruel and
rnortifying. The plaintiffs, after using my
columns to the extent of their needs or desires,
stopped writing and called on me for the name
Of their assailant. | proffered it to them--a
| thoroughly responsible name. They refused
to accept it unless it should prove to be one of
the four or FIVE first men in Batavia when
they had known from the first who it was,
end that It was neither Of them. They would
not accept that which they had demanded;
they sued me instead for money, and money
you were at liberty to give them to your
hearts content I 20 not think you DeTs at
liberty to humiliate me in the eyes of my
own and your public as you did. think
you exalted your own judicial and fearless
ness unduly at my expense. think you had
a better occasion for the display of these
qualities when Webb threw himself untimely
upon you for pardon which he bad done all
man could do to demerit. His paper is
paying you for it now.
I have publicly set forth my view Of your
and our duty with respect to Fusion, Nebras-'
ka and party designations. win not repesi
any of that. have referred also to Weeds
reading me out Of the Wing party-mY crime
being, in this as in some other things, that of
doing to-day 1,what more polite persons viii
not be ready to do till tomorrow
Let me speak of the late canvass. l was
once sent to Congress for ninety days merely
to enable Jim Brooks to secure seat therein
for four years. think never hinted to any
human being that would have liked to be
put forward for any place. But James w.
White (you hardly know how good and true
man he ISL started my name for Congress,
and Brooks packed delegation thought
could help him through so was put on be-
hind him. But this last spring, after the
Nebraska question had created a new state
Of things ct the North, one or two personal
friends, of no political consideration, suggest
ed my name as a candidate for Governor, and
I did not discourage them Soon, the per-
sons who were sfterward mainly instrument
tai in nominating Clark, came about me and
asked me If could secure the Know Nothing
vote. told them neither could or would
touch it on the contrary, loathed and re-
PEELED it. Thereupon they turned upon
Clark.
said nothing, did nothing A hundred
people asked me who should be run for Gov
ernor. sometimes indicated Patterson
never limited at my own name. But by-and-
by Weed came down and called me to him,
to tell me why he could not support me for
Governor. Il had never asked or counted on
bis support.
am sure Weed did not mean TO humiliate
me; but he did It. The upshot of his dis
course (very cautiously stated was this
# were a candidate for Governor, should
beat not myself only but you. Perhaps that
is true. But as l had in no manner solicited
bis or your support though this might
have been said to my friends rather than to
me. L suspect it is true that l could not have
been elected Governor as e Wing. But had
be and you been favorable, there l0ould have
been party in the State ere this which
would have elected me to any post without
iniIirinr itsalf- or aadanpnrif1, Vnrr ra-elnc.