East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-07-05
Greeley,s Letter to seward.
New YORK, June

New York, June H.
The subjoined is Mr.. Grceley's lette
to Mr.. Seward:
"N. T., Saturday evening, Nov. IL, 1854.
| "GovERNoR SEwARD-The election
over, and its results sufficiently ascel
tanned. 1t seems to me fitting time t
announce to you the dissolution of til
political firm of Seward, Weed g. Gree
ley by the withdrawal of the junior part
ner, said withdrawal to take effect on til
morning after the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary next; and, as it may seem a grea
presumption in me to assume that an,
such firm exists, especially since tn,
public was advised more than year agC
by an editorial rescript in the Ersnn.
Journal formally reading me out of tn,
wing party, that l was esteemed NJ
longer either useful or ornamental in tn,
concern, you will, ! am sure, indulge me
in some "reminiscences which seem to be
fit the occasion. was a poor young
printer, an editor Of a literary journal
a very active and bitter whig in small
way, but not seeking to be known out o
my own ward committee, when, after the
great political revulsion of 1887, / was
one day called to the City Hotel, where
two strangers introduced themselves as
Tharlow Weed and Lewis Benedict, OF
Albany. They told me that cheap
campaign paper of peculiar stamp at
Albany had been resolved on, and that
had been selected to edit it. The an
nouncement might well be deemed fiat
tering by one who had never even sought
the notice of the great, aud who was not
known as partisan writer, and eagerly
embraced their proposal. They asked
me to fix my salary for year. named
81 900, which they agreed to, and l did
the work required to the best Of my
ability. 1t was work that made no flg-
ure and created no sensation, but | loved
it, and did it WELL When it was done,
you were Governor, dispensing offices
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 per year
to your friends and compatriots, and i
returned to my garret and my crust, and
to desperate battle with pecuniary obli-
cations heaped upon me by bad part
ners in business and the disastrous events
of 1887. l believe that it did not then
occur to me that some one of these abun-
dant places might have been offered to
me without injustice. / now think it
should have occurred to you. If it did
occur to me, was not the man to ask
you for it. l think that should not have
been necessary. l only remember, that
no friend at all inquired as to my pecu-
mary circumstances; that your friend,
but not mine, Rob't @. Wetmore, was
one of the chief dispensers of your pat
ronage hero, and that such devoted COM
patriots as III. Wells and John Hooks
were lifted by you out of pauperism into
independence, as am glad / was not;
and yet an inquiry from you as to my
needs and necessities at that time would
have been timely, and ever held in CRATE.
ful remembrance.
'In the Harrison campaign of 1910,
was again designated to edit campaign
paper. published it as well, and ought
10 have made something by it, in spite
If its extremely low price. NV extreme
poverty was the reason why / did not
t compelled me to hire presswork, mail
ng, &c., done by the job, and high |
'harges for extra work nearly ate me up. |
At the close was still without property
md in debt, but this paper had rather
improved my position. Now came great
crabble of the swell mob and coon min
trels and cider suckers at Washington,
not being counted in. Several regi.
nents of them went on from this city,
'ut no one of the whole crowd, though !
ay it who should not, had done SO much
owards Gen. Harrison's nomination and
lection as yours respectfully. / asked
othing-expected nothing; but you,
iov. Seward, ought to have asked that l
hight be Postmaster Of New York.
'our asking would have been in vain,
ut it would have been an act Of grace
either wasted nor undeserved. j soon
fter started the Tribune because was
rged to do so by some of your friends,
nd because such paper was needed
ere. l was promised certain pecuniary
id in SO doing. 1t might have been
iven me without cost or risk to any one.
III ! ever had was a loan by pieccmeal
1000 from James Cogshall - God
less his honored memoryl did not ask
,r this. think it is the sole case in
hich ever received pecuniary favor
'om a political associate. i am very
lankful that he did not die till he was
lilly repaid: And let me here honor one
rateful recollection. When the whig
arty, under your rule, had offices to
i've, my name was never thought of but {
hen, in 1S42-'43, we were hopelessly \
at of power, / was honored with the a
omination for State Printer. When we i
lme again to have a State Printer elect Q
as we'll as nominated, the place went !
} Weed, as it ought yet it was worth Y
TO know that there was once I
me when it was not deemed too great q =
crificc to recognize me as belonging to !
'ur household. II new Office had not l
nee been erected on purpose to give its II
lluable patronage to II. j. Raymond, "
I'd enable st. John to show forth the s.
ines as the organ Of the whig State t
lministration, should have been still '
ore grateful. 4
"In ls47 your stsr again rose, and my =
armest hopes were yealized in your P
pction to the Senate. ! was no longer {