The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-07-12

thereupon was a most humiliating lee
ture in the shape of decision in the
libel case of Redfield and Pringle, and
an obligation to publish it in my own
and the other journal of our supposed
firm. / thought, and still think, this
lecture needlessly cruel and mortifying.
The plaintiffs, after using my columns
to the extent of their needs or desires,
stopped writing and called upon me for
the name of their assailants. prof
tered it to them-a thoroughly respon-
sible name. They refused to accept it
unless it should prove to be one of the
first four or five men in Batavia -
wien they had known from the first
who it was, and 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. l do not think
you acere at liberty to humiliate me in
the eyes of my own and yours public
as you did. / think you exalted your
own judicial sternness and fearlessnessl
unduly at my expense. / think you
had a better occasion for the display of
these qualities when Webb threw him
self untimely upon you for pardon
which he had done all man could do
to t demerit;; Oils 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 designa-
tions. l will not repeat any of that.
l have referred also to Weeds reading
me out of the Wing party-my crime
being, i'm this as in some other things,
that of doing to-day what more public
persons will not be ready to do till to-
morrow.
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 limited 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 is) started by name
for Congress-, and Brooks packed del
egation thought / could help him
through; SO | was put on behind him.
But this last spring, after the Nebraska
question had created new state of
things at the North, one or two person
al friends, of no political consideration,
suggested my name as a candidate. for
Governor, and l did not discourage
them. Soon, the persons who were
afterward mainly instrumental in nomi-
mating Clark came about me and asked
if | could secure the Know Nothing
vote. l told them L neither could nor
would touch it: on the contrary, /
loathed and repelled it. Thereupon
they turned upon Clark.
said nothing, did nothing. A
hundred people asked me who should
be run for Governor. / sometimes in
dicated Patterson, never hinted 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 nor
counted on his support.)
i dfIl sure w ecu uiu DOl inedu 10 llu-
initiate me; but he did it. The upshot
Of his discourse (very cautiously stately
was this: If / were candidate for
Governor, / should beat not myself
only, but you. Perhaps that was true.
But as | have in no manner solicited
his or your support, l thought this
might have been said to my friends
rather than to me. suspect it is true
that could not have been elected Gov
ernor as Whig. But had he and you
been favorable, there acouH have been
a party in the State ere this which
could and would have elected me to
any post, without imuring itself or en-
dangering your reelection.
1t was i'm vain that | urged that /
had in no manner asked nomination.
At length l was nettled at his language
well intended, but very cutting as
addressed to me by him-to say, in
substance, "Well, then, make Patter-
"son Governor, and try my name for
"Lieutenant. To lose this place is a
"matter of no Importance; and we
"can see whether | am really SO obi
" ous."
l should have hated to serve as
Lieutenant Governor, but l should
have gloried in running for the post.
| want to have my enemies all upon
me at once; / am tired of fighting
them piece-meal. And, though
should have been beaten in the canvass,
l know that my running would have
helped the ticket, and helped my paper.
1t was thought best to let the matter
take another course. No other name
could have been put on the ticket SO
bitterly humblng to me as that which
was sele, ted. The nomination was
given to Raymond; the fight left to
me-. And, Gov. Seward, I haze mad,
1t though it be conceited in me to say
so. What little fight there has been,
have stirred up. Even Weed has no.
been I speak of his paper) hearty il
this contest, while the Journal of the
Whie Lieut.. Governor has taken care
Of his own interests and let the can
vass take care of itself, as it early de
clared it would do. That journal has,
because of its milk-and-water coursel
some Twenty Thousand subscribers II
this city and its suburbs, and OF these
Twenty Thousand | venture to say
; more voted for UIlman and Scrogg
|