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-GreeIey's Letter to Gov. Seward.
NV YoRK, Nov. III. 1854.

NRw YoRK, Nov. IL, 1854.
Gov. SEwARD-Deer Sir:-The election
is over, its result sufficiently Rscertsined,
ard it Stems to me fitting time to an
i.nounce to yon the dissolution of the Po-
% litical tirm of Seward, Weed & Greeley,
by the Withdrawal of the junior partner;
said withdrawal to take effect on the
( morning after the FIRST Thursday in Febru-
airy next. And as it may seem Il great
presumption in me to assume that any
such firm exists, especially since the pub
lie was advised more than year ago, b.
IN editorial in the Ereniny JoUTH0l formal
IL reading me out of the Wing party, that
! | was no longer esteemed useful or oruA-
mental in the concern, you will, am sure,
indulge me in somc "reminiscences which
seem to beEt the occasion. was a poor
| young priuter-au editor of q literIry
jourual-a very active and bitter Wing In
n small way. but not seeking to be known
out of my own Ward COMMITTEE, when,
I after tue great political revulsiou of 1887,
| was one day called to the City Hotel,
! where two strangers introduced them
selves as Thurlow Weed and Lewis Bene-
! diet, of Albany. They told me that a
cheap campaign paper of peculiar stamp
ut Albany had been resolved upon, and
that | had been selected to edit It. The
announcement might well be deemed fat
teriug by one who had never even sought
the notice of the great, and who was not
| known as partisan writer, and eagerly
embraced their proposals. They asked me
TO fix my s"lary for year. named
! $1,000, which they agreed to, and l did
the work required to the best of my nbili-
| ty. 1t was work that made no figure and
! created 10 sensation. But l loved and
| done 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 l returned TO
my garrett and my crust, and my desper-
ate battle with pecuniary obligations,
heaped upon me by bad partners in bust
| ness and the disastrous events of 1897.
! believe it did not then occur to me that
some one of those abundant places might
have been offered to me without injustice.
| now think it should have occurred to
! you, if it did not occur t. me. was not
the man TO ask you for it. think that
| should have not been necessary. / only
remember that no friend at all inquired as
| to my pecuni'ry circumstances; that your
| friend, but not mine, Robert c. Westmore,
was one of the chief dispensers of your
| patronage here, and that snch devoted
! computriots as A. 81. Wells and John
| Hooks were lifted by you out Of pauper
| ism into independence, as am glad was
| not; and yet an inquiry from you US to my
needs and means at that time would have
/ been timely, and held ever in grateful re-
membrance.
| In the Harrison campaign of 1910, 1
was again designated to edit campaign
paper published it as we'll, and ought
| TO have made something by it, in spite of
! its extremely low price. My extreme pow
| ertv was the main reason why did not
! 1t compelled me to hire press work, mali
| ing, &c, done by the job, and high
| charges for extra work nearly ate me up.
AT tue close was still without property
and in debt. But this paper had rather
! improved my position. Now came the
great scrabble of the swell mob Of coon
MINISTRIES and cider suckers Mt Washing
| ton, not being counted in the several
regiments of them that went on from this
! CITY. But no one of the whole crowd
| Though l say it, who should mott had
| done so much towards General HarrisOn's
nomination and election as yours respect
| fully. IaSlsed nothiug-expected nothing
| But you, Gov. Seward, ought to have
asked that might be Postmaster of New
York Your asking would have been in
vain, but it would have been an act OF
grace neither wasted nor undeserved.-
l soon after started the Tribune, because
was urged to do sn by certain friends, and
| was promised certain pecuniary MD
in so doing. 1t might have been Civ
en- me without cost or risk to any
one All l ever had was loan by
| piecemeal of $1,000 from John COggs-
! hall GOD bless his houOred memory.
| did not ask for this. think it is the
one sole case in which l ever received II
pecuDiury favor from a political associate.
| | am very thankful that he did not die till
! he was fully repaid. And let me here
| honor one grateful recollection. When
the Wing party, under your rule, had OH
ces to give, my name WAS never thought
of. but when in 1912 and 43 we were hope
| lessly ont of power, was hoDored with
| the PARTY nomination for State Printer
! When VIC came again to have State Priu-
| ter to elect as well as nominate, the place
went to Weed, it ought, yet It was
worth something to know that there was
once time when it was not deemed too
great a sacrifice to recognise me as be-
| longing to your household. IT new Of
| fee had not since been created on purpose
! to give itI valuable patronage to II. J
RAYMOND md enable St. John to show the
Times as the organ of the Wing State Adj
miuistration, should have been still more
grateful. In 1898 your star again rose
! and nv wArmest hopes were realized in
YOUR election to the Senate l WAS no
longer needy and had no desire to be rec
ognized by Gen. Taylor. think had
some claim to forbearance from You. What
received thereupou, was a most humilia-
ting lecture in the shape of decision in
the libel case of Rcdfield & Pringle, and
an obligation TO publish it in my own and
other joUrn, Is of your supposed firm.
thought and still think this lecture need
lessly cruel and Notifying. The plain
tiAs after using my columns to the extent
of their needs or desires, stopped writing
and called on me for the name of their as