The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-21

1cAFecteu HoIHiNG, Oul you, bpF bot"di u
ought to have asked thar be Postmaster
of New York. Your asking would have
been in vain; but it would have been
an act Of grace neither wasted nor undc-
served.
| soon after started The Tribune, be-
cause | was urged to do SO by certain of
your friends, and because such a paper
was needed here / was promised Ger
tain pecuniary aid in so doing; it might
have been given me without cost or risk
to anv oAe All ! ever had was loan
by piecemeal of $1,000 from james
iCoggeshall, God bless his honored mem
ory | did net ask for this, and think
it is the one sole case IN which ever re-
ceived pecuniarY favor from political
associate am very thankful that he
did not die till it was fully repaid.
And let me here honor one grateful
recollection When the Wing party un-
der your rule had Offices to give, my name
was never thought Of; but when III '42-
5, we were hopeleSsly out Of power, l was
honored with the party nomination for
State Printer When we came again to
have State Printer to elect as well as
nominate, the place went to Weed, as it
ought. Yet it is worth something to
know that there was once a time when it
was not deemed too great sacrifice to
recognize me as belonging to your house
hold. Ifa new Office had not since been
created on purpose to give its valuable
patronage to Ii. j. Raymond and enable
St. John to show forth his Times as the
organ of tie Wing State Administration,
should have been still more grateful.
In 1918 your star again rose, and my
warmest hopes were realized in your cleo
tion to the Senate | was no longer
needy and had no more claim than desire
to be recognized by Gen. Taylor. | think
| had some claim to forbearauce from you
What / received thereupon was a most
humillating lecture iu the shape of a de,
ci>ion in the libel case Of Redfed aud
pringle, and an obligation to publish it
in my own and the other journal of our
supposed firm. | thought, and still
think this lecture neediessly cruel aud
mortifying. 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 assaiIant. =.
proffercd tito them-a thoroughly respon-
sibIe name. They refused to accept 1t,
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,
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. |
do not think you were at liberty to hu-
initiate NE in the eyes Of my own aud
and your* public as YOU did. [ think you
exalted your own judicial sternncss and
fearles>ucss unduly at my expense. |
think you bad better occasion for the
display Of these qualities when Webb
threw himself untimely upon you tor
pardon which he had done all man
could do to demerit. { His paper is pay
ing you for it uow.)
have publicly set forth my view Of
your and our duty with respect to Fusion,
Nebraska and party designations. | will
not repeat any Of that. | have referred
also to Weeds reading me out of the
lFhig 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 NE speak of the late canvass. I
was once sent to Congress for ninety days
merely to enable Jim Brooks to secure q
seat therein for four years I think l
never hintcd 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 my name for Congress, and
Brooks packed delegation thought |
could help him through SO | was put
on behind him. But this last Spring,
after the Nebraska question had created
Il new state of things at the North, one or
two perSonSal friends, or no political con
sidcration, suggested my name as a can
didate for Governor, and l did not dis
courage them. Soon, the persons who
were aficrward mainly instrumental in
nominating Clark came about me and
asked if | could secure the Know Moth
ing vote. ! told them | neither could
nor would touch it; on the contrary, l
loathed and repelicd it. Thcreupon they
turned upon Clark.
said nothing, did nothing. A hun
dred people asked me who should be run
for Governor. [ sometimes indicated
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. II