Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-15

Congress for ninety days merely 70 enable
Jim Brooks to secure seat there in four
! yeqrs. Think never binted to any hui
man being that would have time to be
! put forward for any place, bat James ".
White, you hardly know how good and
F.! true man he is, started ms name for
Congress and Brooks packed the deiega-
tiou and thought you'd help him through,
so was put on behind him; but this last
spring, after the Nebraska question had
created new state of things at the North,
two personal friends of no political con-
sideration, suggested my name as candi-
date for Governor and 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. I told him I
neither could or would touch it; on the
contrary, / Ioathed il. Thereupon they
turned upon Clark. l said noGhing-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 /
had never asked nor counted on his sup
port. At length was Iettled, by his LAM
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addressed by him to me, TO say in sub
stance: "Well, then, make Patterson
Governor, and Try my name. for Lieuten-
ant" should have hated to serve as
Lieutenant Governor; but should have
gloried in running for the post. want
10 have my enemies all upon me at once.
/ am tired of lighting them by Piecemeal,
and though ! should have been beaten in
the canvass, knew that my running would
have helped the ticket and helped my pa
per. II was thought best to let the matter
take another course. No other man could
have been put on the ticket so utterly
humbling to me as that which was select
ed. The nomination was given TO Ray
mOnd. The fight left me.
had to bear the brunt of the contest
and take terrible responsibility in OTccr
to prevent the Wings from uniting upon
James w. BHrker in order TO defeat Fer
nando Wood. Had Barker been elected,
neither you nor could walked these streets
without being booted aud Know Nothing
ism would have swept like a prairie fire
stopped Bhrker'S election at the cost of
mourning the deadliest eumity of the de-
teated gung and l have been rebuked for
it by the Lieut.. Governors paper At
the critical moment he came out sgainst
john Wheeler, iu favor of Charles II. Mar
enemy in the House, and even your Col.
Generals paper, which was ever with me in
Insisting that Wheeler should be returned,
wheeled about at the last moment and
went in for Marshall, the Tribune alone
cIinging to Wheeler to the last. rejoice
that they who turned so suddenly, were
not able to tuEn all their readers. Gov.
Seward, l know tina: some of your most
cherished friends think me a great obsta-
Gle in your advancement, that Jno. SCHOOL,
craft, for one, insists that you and Weed
shall not be identified with me. I trust
after a time you will not be. ! trust
shall never be found in opposition to you.
have no further wish but to get out of
the newspaper world rs quiet and as spec
Oily AS possible; join my family in ease, If
possible and stay there long enough TO
cool my fevered brain and renOTaIe my
overtasked energies.
All ask is that we shall be counted
even on the morning after the first Tues
day in February as aforesaid, that may
threaten take such course Us seems best,
without reference to the past. You have
done me acts of great Kindness in the
line of your profession. Let me close
with the assurance that these will ever
be gratefully remembered by yours.
HORACE GREELEY.