Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-06-21
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN, JUNE 2l, 1860.

and party designations. Will not repeat airy
OF that. have referred also to Weeds read
ing me out Of the Wing party-my crime be-
ing, in this as in some other things, that OF do
ing to-day what more polite persons will not
be ready to do till to morrow.
Let me speak Of the late canvass, was once
sent to Congress for ninety days merely to ena-
BILE Jim Brooks to secure Il seat therein TOR four
years. think | never limited to any human
being that | would have liked to be put forward
for any place. But James W. White (you
don't know how good and true q man he is)
started my name for Congress, and Brooke's
packed delegation thought | could help him
through so | was pat on behind him. But
this last Spring, alter the Nebraska question
had created a new state of things at the North,
one or two personal friends, of no political con.
sderation, suggested my name as candidate for
Governor, and [ did not discourage them. Soon
the persons who were afterward mainly nstru-
mental in nominating Clarke came about me
and asked if | could secure the Know Nothing
vote. told them neither could nor would
touch it on the contrary, | loathed and re-
peled it Thereupon they turned upon Clark
said nothing, did nothing. A hundred peo-
pie asked me who should be run for Governor.
/ sometimes Indicated Patterson, but | never
limited at my OWL name. But by and-and Weed
came down and called me to him, to tell me
why he could not support Inc for GOVERNOR
| G had never asked nor counted on his suppOrt.)
am sure Weed did not mean to humliate
me but he did it. The upshot of his discourse
livery cautiously stately was this If were IL
| candidate for Governor, should beat not my
self only but you. Perhaps that was true
! But as had il no manner solicited his or your
! support, thought this might have been said
! to my friends rather than to me. | suspect it
is true that could not have been elected Cover
nor as Wing. But had he and you been fa-
vorable, there ,Ooud have been party in the
State ere this which could and would have
elected me to any post, without injuring itself
or endangering your reelection.
1t was in vain that urged that had in no
manner asked nomination. At length [ was
lnettled by his language-well intended but
gerry cutting, as addressed by him to me-to say,
Governor, and try my name for Lieutenant
To lose this place is u matter of no importance !;
and we can see whether am really 50 odious.
| should have hated to serve as Lieut.. Cover
nor, but should have glored in running for
the post | want to have my enemies all upon
me at once | am tired OF fighting them piece
LnCul. ANU bubuSu ollOulu IdfO DCCH pOhIOh
in the canvass, know that my running would
have helped the ticket, and helped my paper.
1t was thought best to let the matter take
another course. No other name could have
been put on the ticket so bitterly humblng to
me as that which was selected. The nominal
ton was given to Raymond; the fight left to
me. And, Gov. Seward, hare 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 Il speak of his paper)
hearty in this contest, while the journal of the
Whig Lieut.. Governor has taken care of its
own interests and let the canvass take care of
itself, as it early declared it would do. That
journal has because of its milk-and-water
course) some Twenty-Thousand subscribers in
this city and its suburbs, and of these Twenty
Thousand | venture to say more voted Tor I'LL
mann and Scroggs than for Clark and Ray
mond the Tribune (also because of its charac-
ter) has but Eight Thousand subscribers within
the same radius and | venture to say that of
its habtual readers nine tenths voted for Clark
and Raymond-very few for Ullmann and
Scroggs. had to bear the brunt of this con-
test and take a terrible responsibility in order
to prevent the Wings uniting upon James w.
Barker in order te defeat Fernando Wood Had
Barker been elected here, neither you nor
could walk these streets without being hooted
and Know Nothngism would have swept like Il
prarle-fre. stopped Barkers election at the
cost of mourning the deadliest enmity Of the
defeated gang and have been rebuked for it
by the Lieut.. Governors paper AT this critl-
cal moment, he came out against John Wheeler
in favor of Charles H. Marshall (who would
have been your deadliest enemy in the House)
and even your Col. Generals paper, which was
even with me in insisting that Wheeler should
be returned, wheeled about at the last moment,
and went in for Marshall--the Tribune alone
ciuging to Wheeler to the last | rejoice that
they who turned so suddenly were not able to
turn all their readers.
Gov. Seward, know that some of your most
cherished friends think me n great obstacle in
the way of your advancement-that John
Schoolcraft, for one, insists that you and Weed
shall not be identified with me- trust, after
u time, you viii not be. trust shall never
be found in opposition to you have no far
ther wish but to glide out of the newspaper
world as quietly and as speedily as possible,
join my family in Europe, and if possible stay
there quite u time-long enough to cool my fe-
yered brain and renovate my overtasked ener-
gies. All ask is that we shall be counted even
on the morning after the first Tuesday in Febru-
airy, as aforesaid, and that may thereafter take
such course as seems best without reference to
the past.
You have done me acts of valued kindness in
the line Of your profession let me close with
tho assurance that these will ever be gratefully
remembered by Yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
Hon. VIM. II. SEWARD, Present.
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