Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-18


ting as addressed by him 10 mel, to say, well.
zen n ak Pattersoa Governor and try my
name for Leutepaat.G oternor To lose this
place is q mater Of noimpoftan e, and We
| csu see whether am feailysso odious. I
| should have hatedto serye as Lieut. Gogernor
bat 1 should have gloried in running for
the post. / want TO have my enemies ali up
on me at once. am tired Of lighting them.
piece-meal, ard thought-I should have been
beaten in the canvass, knew.that my run
ming would have helped the ticket and help
ed my paper. 1t was thought best to let the
| matter take another course. No other name
could have been put on the ticket so bitterly
humbling as that which was selected. The
| nomination was given to Raymond; the fight
was left to me, aud have made it. Though
1t be conceited in me TO say so, what little
| fight there has been have stirred up. Even
Weed has not been (I speak of his paper
hearty III this contest, while the journal of
the Wing Lieutenani-Governor has taken
care of its own interests and let the canvass
| take care of itself. as It early declared il
would. That journal has. beeruse of its milk
aud water course. some 20 900 subscribers in
this city and its suburbs. and OF these
| twenty thousand venture to say more voted
| for Ullman and Scroggs than for Clark
and Raymond. The 7Ti6u also, because
of its character, has but 5000 subscri-
bers within the same radius, and venture to
say, that of its habitual readers, nine-tenths
voted for Clark and Raymond, and very few
for Ullman and Scroges. / had to bear the
brunt OF the contest and take terrible re-
sponsibility in order TO prevent the Wings
from uniting upon James w. Barker, in Or
der to defeat Fernando Wood. Had Barker
been elected here, neither you nor | could
walk these streets withou: being hooted, and
acknowledgement would have swept like q
prairie fire. L stopped Barker's election at
the cost of lhcurring the deadliest enmity of
the defeated gang, and have been rebuked
for it by the Lieutenant Governors paper.
At the critical moment he came out against
John Wheeler, in favor OF Charles II. Mar
shall. who would have been your deadliest
enemy in the House, and even your Col. Gen
erals paper, which vas even with me in in
sisting that Wheeler should be returned
wheeled about at the last moment and went
in for Marshall, the Tribune alone, clinging
to Wheeler 10 the last.
rejoice that they who were able to turn
so suddenly were not able to turn III Their
readers.
Governor Seward, l know that some Il
your most cherished friends think me 4 great
obstacle TO your advancement; that John
Schoolcraft insisted that you and Weed shall
not be identified with me. | trust, after a
time, you will not be. trust shall never
be found in opposition TO you. / have no
further wish but to glide out of the newspa-
per world as quietly and as speedily as pos
sihle, join my family in Europe, and if posi-
BILE stay there long enough to cool my fever
ed brain and renoyate my over tasked enei-
gies. All ask is that we shall be counted
even on the morning after the first Tuesday
in February as aforesaid, and that / may
hereafter take such q course as seems best
without reference to the past. You have done
me acts of valued kindness in the line of your
pr Lot ia n
that these will ever be gratefully remembered
ly Yours HORACE GREELEY