The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-06-28

acoePV tndJ WHICH tnsy Nau ueIlaANSu
they sued me instead for money, and
money you were al liberty to give them
to your hearts content. | do not think
you were at liberty to humiliate me ! n
the eyes Of my own and your" public
as you did. | think you exalted your
own judicial sternness and fcarlcssness
unduly at my expense. think you
had a better occasion for the display Of
these qualities when Webb threw him.
self untimcly upon you for n pardon
which he had done all q man could do
to dcmerit. His paper is paying you
for it now.]
1 have publicly set forth my view Of
your and our duty with respect TO fu.
sion, Nebraska and party designation.
l vii! not repeat any Of that, harc
referred also to Weeds reading me out
ofthe Wing ~party--my crime being, in
this as in somo other things, that Of do
ing to-day what more polite persons
will not be ready TO do till tomorrow.
Let mo apcak ofthe late canvass.
was once sent TO Congress- for ninety
days merely to enable Jim Brooks to
secure a scat therein for four years. I
think I never hinted TO any human bo.
ing that l would have liked 10 DO put
forward for any place. But James W.
White (you hardly know how good and
true y man he is,) started my name for
Congress-, and Brooks packed delega-
ton thought | could help him through;
80 | was put on behind him, But this
last spring, after the Nebraska question
had created a new state Of things at the
North, one or two personal friends, of
no political consideration, suggested my
name as q candidate for Governor, and
| did not discourage them. Soon the
persons who were atterward mainly in
strumental in nominating Clark, came
about me, aud asked if | could secure
the Know Nothing vote. | told them
| neither could nor would touch it; on
the contrary, | loathed aud repealed it,
Thcrcupon they turned upon Clark,
! said nothing, did nothing A hun.
drcd people asked me who shonld be
run tor Governor. / sometimes indi.
Gated 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 Gov
ernOr, q had neycra asked nor counted
on his support
| am sure Weed did not mean to hu-
initiate me, but he did it. The upshot
Of his discourse very cautiously sta
ted was this II | were a candidate
for Governor, | should beat not myself
only, but you, Perhaps that was true.
Bot as had in 40 manner solicited his
on your support, | though, this might
have been said to my friends rather
than to me. | suspect it is true that |
could not have been elected Governor
"a It Wing, but had he and yon been IA
vorabic, there W0uM have been a party
in the State ere this which could and
would have elected me 10 any post,
without i,juring itself or ~ondangering
your reelection.
1t was in vain that | urged that | had
in no manner asked a nomination. At
length | was ncttIcd by his language
well intended, but rcry cutting as adj.
dressed by him to me--to say in sub
stance, "WcII, then, make Patterson
Governor, and try my name for Lieu
Tenant. 10 lose TINS place IS u matter
OF no Importance, and we can see whcth-
cr | am really 50 oII0uS.
should havo hated to serve as Lieu.
tenant Governor, but | should have clio.
-. 4 =. .-... I a.. H. $500 "
have ny enemies all upon me at once;
/ am tired of tiohting them picco.mcal.
And, though | should have been beaten
in the canvass, know that my run
nine would have helped the ticket and
helped my p
II wa, thouobt host to Loft he motior
t,kc another roprsn M otho,. name
could have been put on tho ticket so
bitterly humbling to mo as that which
was selected. The nomination was
given to Raymond; the firht left to me.
And. Gov. Seward, IharG made il, tho
it be conccitcl in me to say 50. What
little FIGHT there has been, | have stirred
up. Even Weed has not been (I speak
Of his paper hearty in this contest,
while ~thcjournal of the Whig Liouten.
ant Governor has taken care of its own
interests, and let the canvass take care
of itself, rs it early declared it would do.
That journal has because of it's milk
and-watcr coursc,) some twenty thous.
and subscribers in this city and its SUI
burbs, and of these twenty thousand
venture to say moro voted for Ullman
and Scroggs than for Clark and Raw.
.mond the Tribune (also because Of its
character has but eight thousand sub.
scribers within the same radius, and |
venture to say that of its habitual re,-