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New YORK, June l4.--The subioined is Mr.. |
Greeley's letter 10 Mr.. Seward.
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New YoRK, June l4.--The subioined is Mr.
Greeley's letter TO Mr.. Seward:
New YORK, Saturday, Nov. IL, 1854.
Gov. SBwARD-Dear Sir: The election is
now over, and its result sufficiently aseer-
tanned. II seems 10 me fitting time TO an
nounce 10 you the dissolution Of the political
firm of Seward, Weed & Greeley, by the
withdrawal of the junior partner, said with
drawal to take effect on the morning after
the first Thursday 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 more than a
year ago by an editorial in the Evening
Journal, formally reading me out of the Whig
party, that | was no longer esteemed useful
or ornamental in the concern. You will, |
am sure, indulge me in some "reminiscences
which seem to befit the occasion. | was n
poor, young printer, an editor Of a literary
journal, a very active and bitter Wing; in a
small way, but not seeking to be known out
of my own Ward Committee. When, after
the great political revolution of 1897, was
one day called to the City Hotel where two
strangers introduced themselves as Thurlow
Weed and Lewis Benedict, of Albany. They
told me that u cheap campaign paper of n
peculiar stamp at Albany, had been resolved
upon, and that had been selected TO edit Il.
The announcement might well be deemed
fattering by one who had never sought the
notice Of the great, and who was not known
as partizan writer, and eagerly embraced
their proposals. ... ..... .... ..
| named 81, 900, 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 loved it, 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 | returned TO my garret
and my crust, and by desperate battle with
pecuniary obligations heaped upon me by a
bad partner in business and the disastrous
events Of 1887. ! believe it did not then oc-
cur to me that some one of these abundant
places might have been offered to me with
out injustice. / now think il should have
occurred to you. If il did occur TO me,
was not the man to ask for it. think that
should not have been necessary. | only re-
member that no friend ut all inquired as to
my pecuniary circumstances.
That your friend but not mine, Robert @.
Wetmore, was one of the chief dispensers of
your patronage here, and that such devoted
compatriots as A. 81. Wells and John Hooks
were lifted by you out of pauperism into in
dependence, as | am glad was not; and yet
an inquiry from you as to my needs and
hANhho ~ ehdS tlihOt WOulu udNt DttH
and held ever in grateful remembrance.
In the Harrison campaign of 1910 was
again designated to edit campaign paper
published it as well, and ought to have
made something by it, in spite of its extreme
low price. My extreme poverty was the
main reason why did not
1t compelled me to have press work, mail
ing, &c, done by the job and high charges
for extra work nearly ate me up. AT the
close still, without property and in debt,
but this paper, had rather improved my posi-
ton. Now came the great scrabble of the
swell mob OF coon-minstrels and cder-suck-
ers, at Washington; not being counted in.
Several regiments of them went on from this
CITY, but no one Of the whole crowd, though
say II, who should not had done SO much
Pward Gen. hafffsott's numtnHrion and -elec-
aon as yours respectfully ". ..-.,..---- ~ ,
l asked nothing, expected nothing; but you,
Gov. Seward. ought to have asked that l
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. sooD after started the Tribune,
because l was urged to do 80 by certain OF
your friends, and because such paper was
needed here
was promised certain pecuniary aid in so
doing. 1t might have been given me with
out cost at risk to any one. All have had
was loan by piece-meal Of 81 900 from JAS
Cogshall. God bless his honored memory.
did not ask for this; think it is the one
sole case in which ever received pecuni-
airy favor from 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 Whig party
UNDER your rule, had offices to give, my
name was never thought of, but when in az,
'43 we were hopelessly out of power was
honored with the party nomination Of State
Printer.
When we came again to have State Printer
to elect as well as nominate, the place went
to Weed, as it ought; yet it was worth some
thing to know that there was once time
when it was not deemed too great sacrifice
to recognize me as belonging to your house,
hold.
If a new office had not since been created
on purpose to give its valuable patronage to
H. ]. Raymond, and enable st. John to show
forth its Times as the organ of the Wing
State Administration, | should have been
still more grateful. In lS48 your star again
rose, and my warmest hopes were realized
in your election to the Senate. was no lon
ger needy, and had no more desire to be re-
cognized by General Taylor. l think had
some claim to forbearance from you; what
received thereupon was most hnmiliating
lecture, in the shape of decision in the like
case of Red6eld & Pringle, and an obligation
to publish it in my own and other journals of
your supposed frm-I thought and still think,
this lecture needlessly cruel and mortifying.
The plaintiffs, after using my columns to the
extent of their needs and desires, stopped
writing, and called on me for the name of
their assailant. I proffered 1t to them-a
thorough, responsible man. They refused to
accept II unless it should prove to be one of
the four or FIVE first men in Batavia, when
they had known from the first who II was,
and that it was neither of them. They would
not accept that which they had demanded.
They sued me instead for money, and money
you were at liberty to give to them to your
hearts content.
t.. The Japanese.