Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-05

Webb threw hmSelf untlmely upon you for pardon, which he had done all a man could do to demerit (His paper is pay ing you for it now.
 have. publicly set forth my view of your and our duty with respect to Fusion, Nebraska, and party designations. I will repeat any of that. have referred also to Weed reading me. out off the Whig par ty-my crime being in this, as in some other things, that of doing to-day what more polite persons will not be ready to do till tomorrow. t
 Let me speak of the late canvass. I was once sent to Congress for ninety days, merely to enable Jim Brooks to secure seat therein for fouryears. Ithink Ineo- CT hiated to Gny hanan being that I WOuld hGee liked to be put .foraOard for 0ay 10lace. But James W. White (you hardly know how good and true man he is) started my name for Congress, and Brooks's packed delegation thought could help him through, so Twas put on behind him. But this last Spring, after the Nebras- ka question had created new state of things at the North, one or two personal friends, of no political consideration, sug- gestted my name as 2 candidate for Gov ernor, and did not discourage them.
  mainly instrumental in nominating Clark cure the Know-N Nothing vote. I told them I neither could nor would touch it on the contrary, Iloathed and repelled 1t. There upon, they turned upon Clark.
 I said nothing, did nothing. A hun dred people asked me who should be run for Governor. I sometimes hinted Pat kn1 of Rnf by-and-by, Weed came down and called me to him, to tell me why he could not support me for Governor. q had never asked nor counted on his support.) .- a | am sure Weed did not mean to humil- fate me, but he did ay The upshct of his discourse Every cautiously stated) was this: If I were candidate for Governor, I should beat not myself only, but you. Perhaps that was true But, as I had in no manner solicited his or your support, I thought this might have been said to my friends, rather than to me- I suspect it is true that could not have been elect ed Governor as Whig. But had he and you been favorable, there aOOuld have been 8 party in the State, ere this which could and would have elected me to any post, without injuring myself or endang- ering your reelection.
 It was in vain urged that I had in no manner asked a nomination. At length I was nettled by his language intend ed, but very cutting, as addressed by him to me-to say, in substance, 'Well, then, make Patterson Governor, and try my nanae for Lieutendnt To lose this place is matter of no importance, and we can see whether am really so odious.''
 should have hated to serve as Lieut. enant- Governor, but should have glo- ried in running for the post. 1 want to have my enemies all upon me at once--I am tired of fighting them peacemeal. And, although should have been beaten in the canvass, know that my running would have helped the ticket and HELPED MY PAPER.
 It was thought best to let the matter take another course. No other name could have been put upon the ticket so humbling to me as that which was select ed. The nomination was given to Ray mond-The fight left to me. And Gov ernor Seward h0ve made it, though it be conceited in me to say so. What little fight there has been, I have stirred up. Even Weed has not been q speak of his paper) hearty in this contest, while the lOufuAl O1 bu0 WuAS or has taken care of it's own interests and let the canvass take care of itself, as it early declared it would do That journal has (because of it's milk and water course) some twenty thousand subscribers in this city and suburbs and of these twenty thousand, I venture to say more voted for Raymond The Tribune (alsO because of hoe |, T. scribers within the same radius and l CTS, nine -tenths voted for Clark and Ray mond, very few for Ullman and Scroggs. had to bear the brunt of the contest, der to prevent the Wings uniting upon James w. Barker, in order to defeat Fer nando Wood. Had Baker been elected here, neither you nor could walk these streets without being hooted, and Know Nothing;s mwould have swept like prairie fire. I stopped Bakers election at the cost of mourning the deadliest enmity of the defeated gang, and I have been re- buked for 1t by the Lieutenant-Govern or's paper. At the critical 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 Colonel Generals paper, which was even with me in insisting that Wheeler should be returned, wheeled about at the last moment, and went i'll for Marshall, The Tribune alone clinging to Wheeler to the last. I rejoice that they who turned so suddenly were not able to turn all GneIr Ivuttorp.
 Governor Seward, know that some of vovr n,ost cherished friends think me a great obstacle to your advancement John Schoolcraft, for one, insists that you and Weed shall not be identified with me. trust, after a time, you will not be. trust | shall never be found in opposition to you.. I have no further wish but to glide out of the newspaper world as quiet ly and as speedily as possible, join my family in Europe, and, if possible, stay there quite time -long enough to cool my fevered brain and renovate my over tasked energies. All ask is that we shall be counted even on the morning after the first Tuesday in February, as aforesaid and that I may thereafter take such course as seems best, without rcferenoo- the past.
 You have done acts of valued kindness in the line of your profession-let me close with the assurance that these will ever be gratefully remembered by
 m ..aEs. HORACE GREELEY. Hon. WM. H. SEWARD, present.. I MANFoN MARBLE Numerous reports apparently well credited, have within l few days been putinto circulation, stating | z l.,