Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-16

lessly cruel and mortifyiug. The plaif
titfs after using my columns TO the exten
| of their needs or desires, stopped writinS
and called on.me for the name of their as
/ snilant. profered5it to them, thor
oughly responsible name. They refused to
accept it unless it should provo to nc ono
! of the four or Ave first rnen in Batavia,
when they had known from the first whs
II was anu that it was neither of thea -
They would not accept that which they
| had demanded; they sued me instead, fof
money, and money you were at liberty TO
give them to your hearts conten: do
not think you were at liberty to humilate
me in the eyes of my own and yours pubs
| lie, az you did. think you exalted your
own judicial sternness and fearlessuess
and at my expense.
| think you had better occasion for thd
display of these qualities When Webb threw
himself unkindly upon you for a pardon
which he had done all man could do to
demerit. (His paper is paying you for is
now.) have publicly set forth my
view of. your and our duty, with respect tU
fusion, Nebraska and party designations.
! will not repeat any of that. have re-
fcrred also to Weeds reading me out ots
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 on the late canvass. Twas
once sent to Congress for ninety days merely
to enRbleJim Brooks to secure n seat there
in for fouryears. / think never hinted to
any human being that Iwould havelikedto
be put forward for any place. But james
W. White, you hardly know how good and
true q man he is, started my name for
Congress aud Brooks packed delegation
thought l could help him through, so
was put on behind him; but this last spring,
after the Nebraska question had created Al
new state of things ut the North one or
two personal friends of no political con-
sidcration, suggested my name as n cundi-
date for Governor and l did not discourage
them.
Soon the persons who were aftcrward
mainly Instrumental in nominating Clark,
came about ME and asked if could secure
the Know Nothing vote. told him nci-
ther could or would touch it; on the contra.
rv, lOathed and repealed it. Thereupon
they turned upon Clark, said nothing, did
Lothing. A hundred people asked me who
should be run for Governor. ! sometimes
indicated 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. U
had never asked nor counted on his sup
port.)
am sure Weed did not intend to hUmiI-
ate me; but he did it. The upshot OF his
discourse very cautiously stately was this;
lr were II candidate for Governor, should
beat not myself only, but you. Perhaps
that was true. But as had in no manner
solicited his or your support, though this
might have been said TO my friends rather
than to me. l suspect it is true that
could not have becu elected Governor as -
Whig. But had he and you been fuvora-
bic, there arouId have been party in the
State ere this which could and would have
elected me to any post, without injuring
itself or end"ngering your reelection.
1t WAS in vain thar urged that had in
no manner asked IL nomination. Al lcugth
l WAS nettled by his Iangunge-welI tn-
tended, but Uery cutting as addressed by
him to me, to say in substance "Wcll,
then, make P.ficrson Governor, and try
place is IL matter of no lnfpurtn', e S' ihi;
can whether am really so odIouS'
I should have hated to serve as Lieu
tenant Governor; but 1 should have gl".
ricd in running for the post. want 10
have my enemies all upon me Mt once
nm tired of fighting them Picccmcal,
and though | should have been beaten III
the canvass, Ikncw that my running would
have helped the ticket and helped my pa
per.
1t was thought best to let the smattcr
take another course. No other name could
have hecn put on the ticket so bitterly
humbIng to me rs that which WAS select
ed. The nomination was given to Kay
mond; the fight left to me. And, Gov. Sew
ard, I hare made It, though it he conceiled
in me to saw So What little fight there
has been, have stirred up. E"cn Weed
has not been Il speak OF his Paper) hearty
in the contest, while the journal OF the
Whir Lieut.. Governor has taken care OF
its own interests and let the canvass take
care of itself, it early declared 1t would
do. That journal has, because of It's milk
and water course, some twenty thousand
subscribers in this city and its suburbs,
and of these twenty thousand venture to
say. more voted for Ulirnan and Scroggs
than for Clark and Raymond. The Zri-
Gune, also because of it's character, has but
eight thousand subscribers within the Same
radius, and | venture to say, that of its
hahitunl readers, ninc-tenths voted for
Clark and Ruymond-very few for UlimNnn
and Scrogcs. had to bear the brunt of the
contest ard take n terrible responsibility in
orQcr to prevent the Wings from uniting
upon James W. Barker in order to de-
feat Fernando Wood. Had Bnrker been
elected, neither you nor conld nave
walked these streets without being hoot-
ed, and Know Nothingism would have
swept like a prairie fire. stopped
Bankers election at the cost of incur
ring the deadlicst enmity Of the defeat
ed gang, and have been rebuked for
! it by the Lieut. Governors paper. AT
the critical moment he came out against
John Wheeler, in favor of Charles H. Mar
shall, who would have been your dead!iest
enemy in the House, and even yOur Col.
| Generals paper, which was ever with me in
insisting that Wheeler should he returned,
/ wheeled about at the last moment and
! went in for Marshall, the Tribune alone
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