Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-06-20
The ,ubioined is Mr.. ereelsy's letter to

Gov. SEwARD-Dedr Sir; The electio
is over and its results sufficiently ascer
tanned. 1t secures to me fitting time t
announce to you the dissolution of the po
litical firm of Seward, Weed & Greeley b.
the withdrawal Of the junior partner; sai'
withdrawal to take effect on the mornipl
after the first Thursday in February next
and as it may seem a great presumption ii
me to assume that any such firm exists. es
pecially since the public was advised mor'
than year ago by an editorial in the Eve
ming Journal. formally reading me out o
the Wing party. That was no longer es
teemed useful or ornamental in the can
vass. You will, l am sure. indulge me il
some "reminiscences which seem to befit The
occasion.
was poor young printer, an editor ol
a literary Journal, very active and bitter
Wing in a small way, but net seeking to be
known but of my own ward committee
When, after the great political revalsion oi
1887, was one day called TO the City Ho.
tel where two strangers introduced them
selves as Thurlow Weed and Lewis Bene-
dict of Albany. They told me that a
cheap campaign paper, of peculiar stamp
at Albany, had been resolved upon, aud
that had been selected to edit it. The
announcement might well be deemed fat
tering by one who had neser even sought
the notice of the great. and who was not
known as a psrtizan writer. and eagerly
embraced their proposition. They asked
me to fix my salary for a year. / named
$1,000 which they agreed to; aud did the
work required 10 the best of my ability
1t was work that made no figure and crea-
ted no sensation; but loved it, and did
it we'll. When it was done, you were Gov
ernor, dispensing offices worth from $4,000
to $40, 600 per year TO your friends and
compstriots, and / returned 10 my garret
aud my crust. and by desperate battle with
pecuniary obligations heaped upon me by
bad partners in business. and the disas-
trous event of 1897, believe it did not
then occur to me that some one of these
abundant places might have been offered
me without injustice, now think it should
have occurred to you. Ifit did occur to me
was not the man to ask you for it. /
think that should not have been nececssa-
ry. | only remember that no friend at ell
inquired as to my pecuniary circumstances;
that your friend, but not mine, Robert G.
Wetmore, was one Of the chief dispensers
of your patronagshere. and that such de
voted compatriots as A. H. Wells and
John Hooks. were lifted by you out of pau
perism into independence. rs am glad l
was not, and yet an inquiry from you as
to. need and means at that time would
have been timely and held ever in CRATE.
ful remembrance.
In the Harrison campaign of 1910 was
again designated to edit campaign paper.
l published il as well and ought to have
made something by it in spite of its ex.
tremely low price. My extreme poverty
vas the main reason why did not /
was compelled to hire press work, mailing
&c, done by the job, and high charges for
extra work nearly ate me up at the close. /
being still without property and in debt
Now came the great scrabble of the swell
mob of coon Ministries and cider suckers
at Washington, I not being 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 Gen. Harrison's nomina.
tion and election as, yours respectfully. /
asked nothing, expected nothing, but Gov.
Seward ought to have asked that might
be Post Master Of New York Your ask.
ing would have been in vain, but it would
have been an act Of grace neither wasted
nor undeserved. 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
loan by piecemeal of $1,000 from Jas. Cog
shall, God bless his honored memory.
did not ask for this. i think it is the one
sole case in which | ever received peco.
mary fav or from a politicnl associate. |
am very thankful that he did not die till
be 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 40. '43, we were hopelessly out Of pow
er was honored with the party uomioa-
tion for State Printer. When we came
again TO have State printer to elect as
we'll as nominate the place went TO Weed
as it ought to.
1t was worth something TO know that
there was once a time when it was not
deemed too great sacrifice to recognize
me as belonging to your household. II a
new office had not since been created on
purpose to give its valuable patronage to
H. ). Raymond and Suabel st. John, TO
show forth the Times as the organ Of the
Whig State Admin nistration, should have
been still grateful. In lS4S your star
again rose. My wsrmest hopes were real
lied in your election TO the Senate. was
no longer needy, and had no more desire
to be recognized by Gen. Taylor. / think
| had some claim TO forbesraDce from you
What received from you was a most hu.
initiating lecture in the shape of Geci
sion 10 the libel case Of Redfeld and Prin.
gle, and an obligation to publish it in 10y
own and other journals Of your supposed
firm. thought, and still think. this lee
ture needlessly cruel and mOrtifying. Th'
plaintiff, for using my columns TO the ex
tent Of their needs and desires, stopper
writing, aud called on me for the name Q
their assailant. proffered it to then.
thoroughly responsible name. They re
fused to accept IL unless it should prove I
be one Of the four or five first men in Bs
tavia. When they had known from u
first who it as. and that it was neither