The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-07-12
~ From the New York Tribune : II
The Famous Letter of Horace Greeley to
a- A~- Gov. Seward. .

| 9f From the New York Tribune !"
The Famous Letter of Horace Greeley to
- Ar- Gov. Seward. rfr g-..,
NEW York, SATURDAY EVENING. November H. 1854
Gov. SEWARD The election is
over, and its results sufficiently ascer-
tanned. 1t seems to me fitting time
to announce to You the dissolution of
the political firm of Seward, Weed and
Greeley, by the withdrawal of the
junior partner, said withdrawal to take
effect on the morning after the first
Tuesday in February next. And as it
may seem a great presumption in me
to assume that any such firm exists,
especially since the public was advised
rather more than year ago, by an
editorial rescript in. the Ecening Jour
nal, formally reading me out OF the
Whig party; that l was esteemed no
longer, either useful or ornamental, in
the concern, you will, / am sure, in
dulge me in some "reminiscences which
seems to beft the occasion. 2t@'.1 i23ii
was a poor young printer, and ed
itor of literary Journal, a very active
and bitter Whig, in small way, but
not seeking to be known out of my
own ward committee, when after the
great political revulsion of 1887, l was
one day called to the City Hotel, where
two strangers introduced themselves
as Thurlow Weed and Lewis Bene-
diet, of Albany. They told me that a
cheap campaign paper of. a peculiar
stamp at Albany had been resolved on,
and that l had been selected to edit it.
The announcement might be deemed
fiattering by one who had never even
sought the notice of the great, and
who was not known as a partizan
writer, and | eagerly embraced their
proposal. They asked me to fix my
salary for a year; l named 81 1000,
which they agreed to, and / did the
work required to the best of my ability.
1t was work that made no figure and
created no sensation, but l Iloved it and
did it well. When it was done you
were Governor, dispensing offices
worth from $4,000 TOGO, 900 per year to
your friends and compatriots, and |
returned to my garnet and my crust,
and my desperate battle with pecuniary
obligations heaped upon me by bad
partners in business and the disaster
Gus events of 1887. / believe it did
not then occur to me that some one of
these abundant places might have been
offered to me without injustice I; | now
think it should have occurred to you.
| did fn II nn fhn
man to ask you for it; think that
should not have been necessary. L
only remember that no friend at Alba
ny inquired as to my pecuniary circum-
stances; that your friend but not mine,
Robt. G. Wetmore, was one of the
chief dispensers of your patronage
here, and that such devoted compatri-
OTIS as A. H. Wells and John Hooks
were lifted by you out of pauperism
into independence, as am glad | was
not; and yet an inquiry from you as to
my needs and means at that time would
have been timely and held ever in
grateful remembrance. e
In the Harrison campaign of 1910,
| was again designated to edit cam
paign paper. / published it as well,
and ought to have made something
by it, in spite of its extremely low
price; my extreme poverty was the
main reason why / did not. 1t com
PEELED me to hire press-work, mailing,
&C., done by the job and high charges
for extra work nearly ate me up. AT
the close l was still without property
and in debt, but this paper had rather
improved my position. y. iraa
Now came the great scrabble of the
swell mob of coOn-minstrels and cider
suckers at Washington / not being
counted in. Several regiments of them
went on from this city, but no one of
the whole crowd-though l say it
who should not, had done so much to-
wards Gen. Harrison's nomination and
election as yours respectfully. Iasked
nothing, expected nothing; but You
Gov. Seward, ought to have asked tha,
| 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.
| soon after started the Tribune, be
cause | was urged to do SO by certain
of your friends, and because such /;
paper was needed here, I was promiset
certain pecuniary aid in so doing; j
might have been given me without cos
or risk to any one. All | ever had wa
a loan by piecemeal of $1,000 from
Jas. Cogshall, God bless his honoret
memory did not ask for this,
think it is the one sole case in whicl
| ever received pecuniary favor from
a political associate. / am very thank
ful that he did not die till he was full,
repaid. f. - m.i.e.
And let me here honor one grateful
, recollection When the Wing party
under your rule had Offices to give, M,
name was never thought of; but whei
in ls42-'43, we were hopelessly out o
power, | was honored with the part,
: nomination for State Printer. Whel
we came again to have State Printer
f to elect as well as nominate, the plac,
: went to Weed, as it ought. Yet it i
: worth something to know that ther
, was once a time when it was no
deemed too great sacrifice to recoe
nize me as belonging to your house
hold. If a new office had not sine
been created on purpose to give it
valuahlo patropauo IN 1T T Ravu-On