East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-07-05

shape Of decision in the libel case o
Redfeld and Pringle, and an obligation
to publish it in my own and other jour
mails of your supposed firm. / thought
and still think, this lecture needlessl,
cruel and mortifying. The plaintiffs
after using my columns to the extent o
their needs or desires. stopped writin!
and called on me for the name of thei
assailant. I proffered it to them
thoroughly responsible name. They re
fused to accept it unless it should be on,
of the four or five first men in Batavi,
when they had known from the first wh'
it was, and that it was neither of them
They would not accept that which they
had demanded. They sued me insteac
for money, and money you were at lib
erty to give them to your hearts content
l do not think you were at liberty to hu
initiate me in the eyes of my own and
your public, as you did. If am not
mistaken, this Judgment is the only
speech, letter, or document addressed to
the government, in which you ever rec.
ognized my existence. hope ! may
not go down to posterity as embalmed
therein. / think you exalted your own
judicial sternness and fearlessness nuduly
at my expense. / think you had better
occasion for the display of these quail
ties when Webb threw himself unan-
nounced upon you for pardon, which he
had done all man could do to demerit.
81 have publicly set forth my view of
your and our duty with respect to fusion,
Nebraska, and party designations. l
will not repeat any of that. / have re-
ferred also to Weeds reading me out of
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 of the late Congress. was once
sent to Congress for ninety days, merely
to enable Jim Brooks to secure seat
therein for four years. / think l never
limited to any human being that l would
have liked to put forward for any place.
But Jas. w. White--you hardly know
how good and true a man he is-started
my name for Congress, and Brooks pack
ed delegation thought l could 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, one or two personal
friends of no political consideration sug-
gested my name as candidate for Gov
ernor, and l did not discourage them
Soon the persons who were afterward
mainly instrumental in nominating Clark
came about me, and asked if / could Sc
cure the know-nothing vote. told
them neither could nor would touch it;
on the contrary, loathed and repelled it.
Thereupon they turned upon Clark. j
said nothing-did nothing. A hundred
people asked me who should be run for
Governor. / sometimes indicated Pat
.erson,-I never limited at my own name:
out by and by Weed came down and
'alled me to him to tell me why he could
lot support me for Governor. l had
lever asked nor counted on his support.
am sure Weed did not mean to humili-
tie me, but he did it. The upshot of his
DISCOURSE, very cautiously stated, was
his: If ! were candidate for Govern
", l should beat not myself only, but
'ou. Perhaps that was true, but, as /
lad in no manner solicited his or your
upport, | thought this might have been
aid to my friends rather than to me.
81 suppose it is true that could not
ave been elected Governor as whig,
ut, had he and yon been favorable, there
would have been party in the State
re this which could and would have
lected me to any post, without injuring
tself or endangering your reelection
t was in vain that urged that l had in
o manner asked a nomination. At
myth was nettled by his language,
'ell intended, but very cutting as ad-
ressed by him to me, to say in substance
We'll, then, make Patterson Governor,
nd try my name for Lieutenant. To
'se this place is matter of no import.
nee, and we can see whether / am really
} odious." should have hated to serve
: Lieutenant Governor, but l should {
ave gloried in running for the post. !
ant to have my enemies ell upon me at
nce,-I am tired of fighting them piece !
zeal; and, though l should have been I
eaten in the canvass, / know that my
inning would have helped tho ticket !;
ld helped my paper :
"It was thought best to let the matter
Ike another course. No other name :,
'uld have been put upon the ticket so =
tterly humbling to me as that which :
as selected. The nomination was given
Raymond, the fight left to me, and
ov. Seward, have made it, though it II
conceited in me to say so. What :
tie fight there has been, l have stirred
}. Even Weed has not been--I speak II
bis paper = hearty in this contest,
hilo the journal Of the Wing Lieuten.
t Governor has taken care of its own !.
terests, and let the canvass take care =
itself, as it carly declared it would do. J
nat journal has, because of its milk and. : :
tier course, some 10000 subscribers = :
this city and its suburbs, and of those y
,OO0 l venture to say more voted for
Imam and Scroggs, than Clark and IA
'ymond. The 7riJ,me, also because of 50
character, has but 5000 subscribers CT
thin the same radius, and I venture to 81
that, of its habitual readers, nine
iths voted for Clark and Raymond, and in
ry few for Ullman and Scropps had &c