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Mr. GREELEY has fairly vndcated his claim 10
be called the WARWICK of the Republican Party.
There is little doubt that the defeat of Mr. SEWARD
and the success of Mr. LINCOLN, at Chicago, were
more directly due TO his influence than to that OF
any other man in the Convention or out OF 1t. III
is true that the distinction is one which MI "ESh-
LEY does not covet. He IS conteht WIZ" i'''i"s
accomplished the deed; he is Wiling 10 u'Spehse
with the glory of it. Perhaps, lie mas ms uoupis
about the policy of what he has done; perhaps,
bo donrecates the ll-w of that large class of Re-
nnblicans who have made Mr. SEWARD their poll
tcol idol Clearly-whatever the cause may be
he is not ambitious of being put forward as the
destroyer of the New York Senator's political
hopes, This, however the friends of the latter
are resolved that he shall he. Since the adjourn
ment of the Convention, they have been persistent
in charging upon him the responsibility of Mr..
SEwARDs defeat They have openly assailed the
motives which actuaed him in the step. They
accuse him of sacrificing the good of the Party for
the qualification of private animosity-and of
"wreaking the long-hoarded revenge of a dsap-
''pointed olfce-seeker. In confirmation of the
charge, they refer to n letter said to have been
written by Mr.. GREELEY to Governor SEWARD in
1854, in which the former, according TO Governor
RAYMOND {" menaced Governor SEWARD with his
hostility whenever it could he made most effec-
tive This letter, adds Gen. WEBB, was shown by
Governor SEWARD, since the Chicago Convention,
TO Governor RAYMOND and other gentlemen who
visited him at Auburn, in order that they might
understand the cause of Mr.. GREELEY s enmity-
and they were at liberty, said Governor SEWARD,
according to WEBB, to refer TO the fact that he
(Nlr. GREELEY was disappointed aspirant for
Office but no reference was to he made to the ex-
istence of the letter. Accordingly, the charge
was made. and in spite Of Governor SEwARD's in
junction to the contrary, the letter was referred to,
in substantiation of its truth. To such mode of
warfare Mr.. GREELEY not unnatnrally excepted.
He called for the production of the letter. He
asked that the public should be put in possession
of the evidence on which the charge was based
He even offered to print the letter in the columns
of The Tribune, provided-and the implication
conveyed in the proviso shows his present feelings
towards Governor SEwARD-the original manu-
script was transmitted to him for the purpose;
copv he declined TO recognize receive. The
letter has been published. In Thursdays Tribune
Mr. GREELEY prints it, acknowledging the receipt
of the manuscript from Senator SEWARD through
THURLow WEED. In yesterdays EXCHANGE we
gave extracts from it we recur to it to-day,
not from any interest which it has for us in its
bearing upon the personal controversy between
Governor SEWARD and Mr.. GREELEY, but for the
sake of the lesson which it contains and the moral
which it teaches to all who engaged in politi-
cal life. II is a bitter and Notifying experience
which the letter nntolds-an experience of twenty
years of thankless, unrequited toil-of labors un-
dergone and successes achieved, of which others
reaped alike the glory and the substantial
fruits, while the laborer was repaid with Sights,
sometimes with words that cost nothing more
frequently with absolute negIect-until at length
the servant writes to the master that the connex-
ion between them, after named day, is to be dis
solved, and each left at liberty to pursue his
own path without reference 10 the past. Mr.
GREELEY begins from the time when he poor
young printer-editor of a literary paper, living
upon crust, in garrett struggling with pecu-
''niary obligations heaped upon him by bad part
'ners and the disastrous events of 1897 He
traces in parallel lines Mr. SEWARD s gradual rise
from one position of power and influence to
another, first in the Wing party, then in the Re-
pubican-as Governor, Senator, and President in
antcipation-and the part which he himself
played in building up that success and the manner
in which his services have been rewarded. At
length, reaching point where, if his eyes were
tl,o aI-,II %
position, he at all events became conscious that he
was being used and cheated, Mr.. GREELEY formally
withdrew from all further association with Mr.
SEwAPD-hXed the date for the dissolution of the
political partnership between them, and while
protesting sentiments of the most distinguished
consideration for Mr.. SEWARD, and expressing the
hope that lie might never be found in opposition
to him, unequiyoCaly declined to any longer
subservient TO his will or purposes Such is in
brief the substance of this remarkable epistle
which, characterized by all that clearness and
terseness of expression for which Mr. GREELEY S
writings are noted, we cordially commend to
general perusal As part of the political history Of
the times it is nteresting-as a chapter in the auto
biography ofNIr. GREELEY it is equally so. But as
an illustration of the folly, less than the mean
ness, of serving for hire in the paths of politics
of journalism, it has its greatest value. OF this.
we prefer to let Mr.. GREELEY speak in his own
words, without pausing to inquire too curiousy
how far his course ITALICS with the sentiments
he processes, or compares with the standard he
proposes. Tie words may be none the less true,
because the lips of BALKAN utter them
''The moral ] would inculcaie' says Mr.. GREE
LEY-'s trite one, but none the less important
cit is summed up in the Scriptural injunction
q Put not your trust in princes. Men, even the
''best, are frail and mutabe, while Principle is
'sure and eternal Be no mans man but
Truths and your country's. You will be sorely
Exempted at times to take this or that great man
''for your oracle and guide-it is easy and tempt
ing to lean, to follow and to trust-but it is
'safer and wiser to look ever through your own
"eyes-to tread your path-to trust impli-
''citly in COP alone. The atmosphere is little
"warmer inside some great mans CASTLE but the
''free air of Heaven is ever so much purer and
'more bracing - For the rest-it may be said
that if in the sights, the humiatons, and the
disappointment which Mr.. GREELEY experienced
during twenty years, of which he complains in his
letter. and which caused him to write 1.-THE had
his sufficient punishment for the subservieney OF
which he had been guilty;-in his defeat at Chi
cago, and the blight and mildew Of the hopes and
aspirations ofhs lifetime, wrought too by the hands
of the man whom he had used and neglected, Mr..
SEWARD has received his. Mr.. GREELEY asks in
MS letter that after the first Tuesday in February
1855, they may be ''counted even.' The 18th of
May, 1850, has made them So
Inc rapacity and unfairness of contractors who
undertake the construction of our public works
mas long been the subject of general complaint