New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-24
GEN. WADsWORTH, MIR. WEED,
EMANCIPATION, &c.

Times printed in our last, denies that he aided
to defeat Gen. WadswOrth for Governor in 1862
That denial surprised me, and especially as he
says,
while in fact he was Slaughtered neither my
own garments those Of my friends. are stali.h
Mr. Greeley knows that my friends were iai'"
ful TO q man"
If Mr.. Weed has any friends" in this Guy.
have always supposed Messrs. A. OaKey hal'
District Attorney James E. Coulter ana A.
d. Barber (then Harbor Masters were such'
Mr.. Oakley Hallopenly renowned the Republican
party in Il at canvass, on the assumption Gully
sustained by Mr.. Weeds daily asSertions)
that il had been perverted and Abolitionized,
supported Seymour & Co., and has ever since
acted with the Democratic party; Mr.. Barber
was zealously, efficiently busy throughout The
canvass in getting Republicans to vote for Sey-
mour and against Roscoe Conklng for Congress;
while Mr. Coulter (unless l am grevously
misniogmed) worked openly for Seymour
all election day at the poll Of his Ward,
and was expelled therefor from the Union
Association of that Ward. Mr.. John A..
Kennedy, superintendent of Police,) Robert
Murray, &C. S. Marshal here,) and John
Butler ir. Gan associate in City Railroads)
were certainly known as jealous personal and
political friends of Mr.. Weed; and | wGs In
formed that neither Of them voted for Gen.
Wadsworth. might name Others like these
of whom have heard the same; but need !
may be msinformed with regard to
one or two of these; if so, L shall
gladly stand corrected; but l cannot be
wrong with regard to all of them. Indeed,
/ was told, two or three days after Election, by
an active Democrat of this City, that his folks
did not feel sure of success till they discovered
that Mr.. Weeds especial friends were voting
for Seymour. And Mr.. Weeds public and
pungent allusion, not long afterward, to the
''hssng viperS" who had been Scotched by
Wadsworth's defeat, gave me to understand
that he had not only contributed to that defeat,
bat gloried in it. Can l be mistaken as to that
circumstance
ii. Mr.. Weed states truly that he desperately
opposed, while l innexibly supported, the nom-
nation OF Gen. Wadsworth. lie now says that
L" the time and circumstances were inauspicous"
for such nomination. Let us consider:
President Lincoln's first Proclamation of
Freedom appeared ON the ODD of September,
lS62s Oar State Convention met at Syracuse
on the cath. That Proclamation was in every
hand, on every tongue. Gen. 'Wadsworth had
been an early and was an ardent champion OF
the Emancipation policy, sincerely believing it
essential to our Military success The Presi-
dent had hestated long and pondered deeply
before adopting it. Now that he had adopted it,
what could we gain by Sinking the issue
thus made upl Maniiesty, we must sink or
swim with Emancipation. BY attempting to
ignore, to evade, to dodge it, We might create a
popular impression that it was wrong, and GER
tain to result in National ruin. 1t seemed
to me that, if there had been room for doubt
r before, there was room no lOnger-tbat We
, should unhesitatingly proclaim, by our plat
) form ard our ticket, that we stood square up
to the Presidents advanced position, thanked
him for taking it, and babe him God speed
in maintaining it. Hence /. with an immense
majority Of the Convention, could see no man
/ so cmnently fit TO head our ticket as was Gen.
} James s. Wadsworth.
Mr.. Weed held strongly to the opposite view
lilo doubt, sincerely. He was-aS he had a
perfect right to be-for somebody, anybody for
Governor but Gen. Wadsworth; especially any
one not openly committed to the policy OF
Emancipation. He fought desperately TO the
last; but it was no use: if and twenty more
such could have been won over, it would have
ayailed nothing-the Convention would nomi-
nate the man after their own heart; and that
man was Gen. Wordsworth.
From that hour, but especially toward the
close of the canvass, we felt that Mr.. Weed
was against u.s. His talk was discouraging, or
Gas he says Gen. W. told him) "croaking." He
protested against Gen. WIS making an Eman-
cipation speech at Cooper Institute. He says
the State Committee excluded him from its
meetings. Ii that was 80, it was simply be-
cause it was felt by that Committee that lie
was working against US. He called publicly on
the Republicans of Massachusetts, to defeat Mr.
Summers return to the Senate-as if the public
would not see that tho reason for defeating
Sumner held good against Wadsworth. His
undcrtone was all against us. And if he did
not chuckle over Wadsworth's defeat, then both
parties were grossly deceived.
III. Emancipation having been established
as the policy Of the Government, most of the
supporters Of the Administration who had de-