Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-06-30

: or endangerlng your reelection.
was in vain that / urged that had il
! no manner asked nomination. A
; length l was nettled at his language
well intended but very cutting as ad
dressed by him to me, to say in sub
stance: Well, then, make Patterson
governor, and try my name for lieuten.
ant governor. To lose this place is a
matter of no Importance, and we can
really see whether I am so odious.
should have hated to serve as lieuten-
ant governor, but should have gloried
IN running for this post. I wanted TO
have my enemies upon me at once.
am tired of fighting them piece meal.
And though should have been beaten
in the canvass, l know that my running
would have helped the ticket and help
ed my paper. It was thought best to
let the matter take another course
No other name could have been put on
the ticket so bitterly humbling to me
as the one that was selected The NOM
nation was given to Raymond-the
fight left to me, and, Gov. Seward, I
| have made it, though it be conceited
in me to say SO. What little fight there
has been have stirred up. Even Weed
has not been q speak of his paper)
heartily in this contest, while the Jour
nal OF the whig lieutenant governor has
taken care of it's own interests and let
the canvass take care Of itself, as it
early declared it would do. The Jour-
nal has, because Of its milk and water
course, some 10000 Subscribers in this
city and its suburbs, and of these 2O,-
900, venture TO say, more voted for
Ullman and Scroggs than for Clark
and Raymond The Tribune, also be-
cause of its character, has but 5000
subscribers within the same radius,
and, venture to say, that of its habit
ual readers nine-tenths voted for Clark
and Raymond, very few for Ullman and
Scroggs.
I had to bear the brunt of the con-
test, and take a terrible responsibility,
IN order to prevent the wings uniting
upon James w. Barker in order to de-
feat Fernando Wood. Had Barker
been elected here, neither you nor
could have walked these streets with
ou5 being hooted, and knownothingism
would have swept like a prairis fire.
| stopped Barker's election at the
risk Of incurring the deadliest enmity
of the defeated gang, and I have been
rebuked for it by the lieut.. COWS pa
per, At the critical moment he came
out against John NJ Wheeler, in favor
of Charles H. Marshall, who would
have been your deadliest enemy in the
House; and your adjutant generals
paper, which was even with me in in
sistlng that Wheeler should be return
ed, wheeled about at the last moment
and went in for Marshall, the Tribune
alone clinging to Wheeler to the last.
| rejoice that they who turned 50 sud-
den y were not able to turn all their
readers.
Gov. Seward, I know that some of
your most cherished friends think me
a great obstacle to your advancement;
that John Schoolcraft, for one, insists
that you and Weed shall not be iden-
tilted with me. l trust that after a
time you will not be. I trust I shall
never be found in opposition to you.-
I have now no further wish but to
glide out Of the newspaper world as
quietly and as speedily rs possible, and
to join my family in Europe, and, if
possible, stay there quite time; long
enough to cool my fevered brain and
renovate my overtasked energies. All
that ask is that we may be counted
even on the morning after the first Tues
day in February, as aforesaid, and that
[ may thereafter take such course as
seems best, without reference to the
the past. You have done me acts Of
valued kindness in your profession
Let me close with the assurance that
these will ever be held in grateful re-
membrance by, Yours,
HORACE GREELT.