White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-07-05

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/ was urged to do so BY certain of you
friends, and because such paper was need
E ed here. 1 was promised certain pecu
mary aid in so doing it might have beer
given me without cost or risk to any one
All ever had was loan, by piece meal
of 81 600, from james Coggeshall-GoC
bless his honored memory. / did not ask
for this, and think it is the one sole CASE
in which l ever received pecuniary favor
from a political associate. am very
thankful that he did not die till he was
fully repaid.
And let me here honor one grateful res
collection. When the Wing party, under
your rule, had offices to give. my name
was never thought Of, but when in 40
and '43. we were hopelessly out of power.
1 was honored with the party nomination
for State Printer. When we came again
to have State Printer to elect as well as
nominate, my place went to Weed, as it
ought, yet it was something to know that
there was once q time when it was not
deemed too great a sacrifice to recognize
me as a member Of your household.
If new office had not since been cre-
ated on purpose to give its valuable pa
tronsge to II. j. Raymond, and enable St.
John to show forth his Times as the organ
of the Wing State administration, 1
should have been still more grateful.
In I848, your star again rose, and my
warmest hopes were realized in your cleo
ton to the Senate. Twas no longer needy,
andhad no more claim than desire to be
recognized by Gen. Taylor.
l think 1 had some claim to forbear-
ance from you, but what ] received there
upon was a most humiliating lecture in
the shape of decision in the libel case
of Redfeld and Pringle and an obligation
to publish it in my own and other jour
mails of your supposed firm. 1 thought,
and still think. this lecture needlessly
cruel and notifying. The plaintiffs,
using my columns to the extent of their
needs or desires, stopped writing and call
ed on me for the name Of their sssailant. /
proffered it to them-a thoroughly respOn-
sible name. They refused to accept it I'M
less 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. and
that it was neither Of them. They would
not accept that which they had at first
demanded. They sued me instead for
money, and money you l0ers at liberty to
give them at your hearts content. | do
not think you were at liberty to humiliate
me in the eyes of my own and your pub
lie, as you did. If am not mistaken,
this judgment is the only speech, letter
or document addressed to the Government
in which you ever recognized my exist
ence. hope l may not go down to pos
terity as embalmed therein. / think you
exalted your own Judicial sterness and
fearlessness unduly at my expense. ]
think you had better oscasion for dis
play Of these qualities when Webb threw
himself untimely upon you for pardon
which he had done all man could do to
dement,. (His paper is paying you for
it now.
have publicly set forth my view OF
your and our duty with respect to fusion.
Nebraska, and party designations. l will
not repeat any of that. l 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
what more polite persons will 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 a seat
therein for four years. / think l never
limited to any human being that / would
have liked to be put forward for any
place. But Jas. w. White (you hardly
know how good and true q man he is,
started my name for Congress. and Brooks
packed delegation thought could help
him through, so Twas put on behind him
but this last Spring, after the Nebraska
question had created q new state of things
at the North, one or two personal friends.
Of no political consideration, suggested my
name as a candidate for Governor, and
did not discourage them. Soon, the per-
sons who were afterwards mainly instru-
mental in nominating CLARK, came about
me and asked if l could secure the Know
Nothing vote. l told them 1 neither
could nor would touch it; on the contra
~, loathed and repealed it. Thereupon
they turned upon Clark. l said moth
ing. did nothing.
A hundred people asked me who should
be run for 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 Governor
l had never asked nor counted on his sup-
port. am sure Weed did not mean to
humiliats me, but be did. The upshot of
his discourse very cautiously stated was
this: II were a candidate for Cover
nor / should beat not myself only, but
you. Perhaps that was true. But as
had in no manner solicited his or your
support, / thought this might have been
said to my friends rather than to me. /
suspect it is true that / could not have been
elected Governor as Wing. But had
he and you been favorable, there tould
have been party in the State ere this
which could and would have elected me
to any post, without injuring itself or en-
dsngering your re- election.
1t was in vain that urged that I had
Ia no manner asked q nomination. At
length / was nettled by his language
well Intended, but very cutting. as sd