The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-06-16
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m time 10 announce u yoN Tie dissSlhtion "a
the political Arm Of Seward, Weed 4 Greeley, BY
he Withdrawal Of the junior partner; said with
draWal to take effect on tho morning after the
irst T.esday in February next apd. ~ y may
seem great presumption in me @ asAnpe that
any such firm exists, especially since the public
was advised more than year ago, BY an edit.'-
rial rescript in the Evening Journal formally
reading me out of the Wing party; that vas 81
teemed no longer either useful Or ornamental "
the concern, you will am sure, indulge NE ~
some reIninisceuccs which seem 70 Dent tnc oceA,
sion. Twas poor young printer, on editor 81
! literary journal, very active and bitter Wig
IN d small way, but not seeking 70 be known out
az nv own ward committee, when, after ~.
great political revolution Of 1887, I was day
called to the City Hotel, where two strangers IN
troduced themselves a. Thurlow Weed ard Lewis
Benedict OF Albany. They told me that 4 cheap
paper, of . peculiar stamp. g Albany,
had been resolved on, and that had been &C.
Iected TO edit it The announcement might well
be deemed catering by one who had never even
sought the notice Of the great, and who was not
known Is . partisan writer, and eagerly en-
braced their proposals. They asked me TO fixmy
salary for year; named 81 600, which they
agreed to, and did the work required 70 the
best Of my ability. It was work that made no
figure and created no sensation, but loved II,
and did it well when it was done. You were
Governor, dispensing Offices worth from $4,000
to $50 900 per year to your friends and compa-
triots. and returned 10 my garrett and my crust,
and made desperate battle with pecuniary oblga-
tons, heaped upon me by bad partners in busi-
ness and the disastrous events Of 1887. ! be-
lieve ii did not then occur to me that some one
Of these abundant places might have been offered
to me- without injustice. now think II should
have occurred to you, If it did not occur TO me,
| was not the man to ask You for it; / think that
should not have been necessary. only remem-
her that no friend at all inquired as to my pecu-
mary circumstances; that your friend, but not
mine, Robert G. Wetmore, was one Of the Chief
dispensers Of your patronage here, and that such
devoted cOmpatriots a. A. K. Wells and John
Hooks were lifted by you out ofpauperism into in
as am glad was not; and vet an
inquiry from you as to my needs and means, at
that time, would have been timely and held ev-
err in grateful remembrance.
In the Harrison campaign Of 1910 was again
designated to edit a campaign paper; published
it "a well, and ought to have made something by
it, in spite Of its extremely low price. Ny cx-
IRENE poverty was the main reason why did
not 1t compelled me to hire press work, mail
ing, &C., done by the job, and high charges for
extra work nearly ate me up at the close. ] was
still without property and in debt, but this paper
had rather improved my position. Now came
the great scrabble Of the swell mob Of coon min
strels and cider-suckers at Washington, not be-
ing counted in. Several regiments of them went
on from this city, but no one Of the whole crowd,
though / say it who should not, had done so much
towards General Harrison's nomination and cleo
ton as yours respectfully asked nothing; cx-
nected nothing; but you, Gov. Seward, ought to
have asked that might be postmaster Of New
York. Your asking would have been in vain,
but it would have been an act of grace neither
wasted nor undeserycd. soon after started the
Tribune, because was urged to do so by certain
of your friends, and because such paper was
needed here. was promised certain pecuniary
aid in so doing; it might have been given me
without cost or risk to any one. All ever had
was a loan, BY piece-meal, Of n, 900 from Jas.
Cogshall; God bless his honored memory; did
not ask for this; think it is the one sole case
in which ever received a pecuniary favor from
q political associate. | am very thankful he did
not die till he was fully repaid, and let me here
honor one grateful recollection: when the Wing
party, under your rule, had offices to give, my
name was never thought of, but when in AZ and
'43 we we're completely out of power, was hon
ored 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 was worth something
to know that there was once time when it was
not deemed too great sacrifice to recognize me
as belonging to your household If new Office
had not since been created on purpose to give its
valuable patronage to II. j. Raymond and ena-
bic Sir John to show forth its tones as the organ
Of the Wing administration should have been
still more grateful. In 1S4S your star again
rose, and my warmest hopes were realized in
your election to the Senate. | was no longer
needy, and had no more claim than desire to be
by General Taylor.
think | had some claim to forbearancc from
yon, what received thereupon, was a most hu-
initiating lecture in the shape Of a decision in tile
libel case of Redfeld and Pringle, and An obliga-
ton to publish it to my own and other journals
Of your supposed firm, thought, and still think,
this lecture needessly cruel and Notifying. -
The plaintiff after using my columns to the ex-
tent Of their needs or desires, stopped writing
and called on me for the name of their assailant,
presented to them, thoroughly responsible
name. They refused to accept it 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 no: accept that which they has. demanded.
They sued me instead for money, and money YOU
we're at liberty to give them to your hearts con
Tent.
| do not think you we're at liberty to humiate
me in the eyes Of my own and your public, as
you did Ii / am not mistaken this judgment il
he Only speech letter or document addressed to
he Government, in which you ever recognized
nv existence. hope ] may not 60 down to pos
Gritty as embalmed therein. ! think YOU exa lied
ronr judicial sternness and fearlessness nnduy at
ny expense.
| think you had better occasion for the dis
,lay Of those qualities when Webb threw himself
lntImely upon YOU for pardon, which he had
one all man could do to demcrit have pnb-
icly set forth my view of your and our duty
With respect To fusion with Nebraska and party
designations, will not repeat any of that
ave referred also to Weeds reading me ont Of
he wing party, my crime being in this, a. in
ONE other things, that Of daring to-day to do
THAT more polite persons will not be ready to do
i'll Tomorrow. Let me speak Of the late canvass
was once sent 10 Congress FOR ninety DAYS,
merely to enable Jim Brooks to secure d seat |
herein for four years. think never limited |
0 any human being that / would have liked to |
e forward for any place. But James W. White, |
gu hardly know how goed and true man he Is. |
tarted my name for Congress, and Brooks |
'ackcd delegation thought could help him |
through, so | was put on behind him; but this |
ast spring, after the Nebraska question had ere
ted new state Of things at the North. one or /
20 personal friends Of no political considera |
ION, suggested my name az candidate for GOV.
NOR, and did not discourage them.
Soon the persons who were afterward mainly \
Instrumental in nominating Clark came around |
&c and asked il could secure the Know Moth.
ag vote. ! told them that neither could or
'oald touch i, but the contary, loathed and |
epelled it. Thereupon they turned on Clark
said nothing, did nothing, hundred people
sked me who should be run for Governor, /
ometmcs intmated Patterson. | never limited
my own name, but by and by Weed came
own and called me to him and told me WHY lie
Guild not support me for Governor. | hnd never
sked nor counted on his support | am sure
iced did not intend to lrniiate me, but lie
ii ii. 8
The nrshot Of his discourse, yerv cautiously
lated, was this: If I were candidate for Gov
rnor should beat not myself only, but you, per.
aps; that was true, but IS l had in no manner
phcited his or your support, ! thought this
light have been said to my friends rather than
me. Isnspcct it Is true that Icouldn not have
eeted Governor, as a Wing; but had he and
nl been favorable there would have been n par-
in the State, ere this, which could and would
ave elected me 10 any post, without ininsing
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