The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-21
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THAT PAW ATE LETTER.
Horace Greeieg to jIHiiuHt H. SepGrd
New YORK, Sat Eve Nov II. 1854.

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New York, Sat Eve Nov II. 1851
Gov SEWARD: The Election is over,
and its results sufficiently ascertained. =
II seems to me a fitting time to announce
TO you the dissolution of the political
firm of Seward, Weed and Greeley. by
the Withdrawal, Of the junior partuer-
said Withdrawal to take elect on the morn
ing after the first Tuesday in February
next. And, as it may seem great pre-
sumption in me to assume tina. any such
firm exists, especially since the public
was advised, rather more than wear ago,
by an Editorial rescript in the Evening
Journal formally reading NE out of the
Whig party, that | was esteemed DO long
er either useful or ornamental in the con-
cern, you will, ann sure, indulge me in
some "reminiscences which seem to bene-
fit the occasion.
was poor young printer and Editor
of a Literary Journal "a very active and
bitter Whig in a small way, but not seek
ing to be known out Of my own Ward
Committee-when after the great Politi-
cal Revulsiou of 1887, was one day cali d
to the City Hotel, where two strangers
introduced themselves as ThurloW Weed
and Lewis Benedict Of Albany. They
told me that cheap Campaign Paper OF
peculiar stamp at Albany had been re
solved on, and that had been selected
to edit it. The ouncement migbt
well be deemed hattering by one vino
had never even sought the notice of t. e
great, and who was not known as Il parti-
san writer, and eagerly embraced their
proposals. They asked ne to fix my sal
AIRY for the year; | named s GOO which
they agreed to; and did the work re-
quirel to the best Of my ability. 1t was
work that made no figure and created no
sensation; but | loved it and | did it
well. When it was done, you were Gov
ernor, dispensing Offices worth 5000 to
$4,000 per year to your friends and conf
patriots, and | returned to my garret and
my crust, and nay desperate battle with
pecuniary obligations heaped upon me
by bad partners in business aud the dis
astrous events of 1887. | believe it did
not then occur to me thai some one of
these abundant places might have been
offered to me without injustice | now
think it should have occurred to YOU. If
1t did occur to me, ! was not the man to
ask you for it; | think that should not
have been necessary. | only remember
that no friend at Albany inquired as to
my pecuniary circumstances that your
friend but not nine) Robert C. Wetmore,
was one Of the Chief dispensers of your
patronage here and that such devoted
ccmpatriots as A. II. Wells and John
Hooks were lifted by you out of pauper-
ism into independence, as I am glad
was not; and yet an inquiry from you as
to my needs and means at that tina
would have been timely. and held ever
in grateful remembrance.
ln the Harrison campaign of 1910.
was again designated to edit campaign
paper. | published 1t as well, and ought
TO have made something by it in spite of
us extremely low price; my extreme
poverty was the main reason why | did
not. 1t compelled me to hire press work,
mailing &c, cone by the job, and high
charges for extra work nearly ate me up.
At the close, | was still without proper
ty and in debt. but this paper had rather
improved my position.
Now came the great scramble of the
swell mob Of coon minstrels and cider
suckers. at Washington not being
counted In Several regiments of them
went on From this city; bnt no one of
the whole crowd-though | say it who
shoEld not-had done SO much toward
Ged 1ardsop's nomination and election
. gsafs respectfully ] asked nothing,