Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-05

were only delayed an hour or two, still, some of our family were drifted about all day before they conld enter, by reason of fog. In my next wilH tell the wonders of the ''Cream City J.
 GREELEY TO SEWARD.
 Motlce of Dissolution of the Firm of
 Seward, Weed & Greeley,
 NEW YORK, Nov. II, 1854.
 Gov. SEWARD: The election is over, and its results sufficiently accertained. 1t seems to me a fitting time to announce to you the dissolution of the political firm of Seward, Weed and Greeley, by the with draWel of the junior partner-said with drawal to take effect on the morning af- ter the first Tuesday in February next. And, as 1t may seem 8 great presumption in me to assume that any such firm exists especially since the public was advised, rather more than year ago, by an edito- rial rescript in The Evening Journal for mally reading me out of Whig party, that I was esteemed no longer either useful or ornamental in the concern, you will, am sure, indulge me in some "reminiscences which seem to befit the occasion.
 l vas poor young printer and Editor of Literary Journal-a very active and bitter Whig in a small way, but not seek ing to be known out of my own Ward Committee-when, after the great Politi- cal Revulsion of 1887, I was one day call ed to the City Hotel, where two strangers introduced themselves as Thurlow Weed and Lewis Benedict, of Albany. They told me that a cheap Campaign Pa per of Q peculiar stamp at Albany had been resolved on, and that I had been selected to edit 1t. The announcement might well be deemed fattering by one who had never even sought the notice of the great, ,and who was not known as partisan writer; and I eagerly embraced their proposal. They asked me to fix my salary for the year :; I named $1, ,OOO, which they agreed to; and did the work requir- to the best of my ability. It was work that made no figure, and created no sen sation but l loved it, and / did tt aoeU. When it was done, you were Governor, dispensing offices worth &, 900 to $2O, ,OO0 per year to your friends and compatriots, and returned to my garret and my crust. and my desperate battle with pecuniary obligations heaped upon me by bad part ners in business and the disastrous events of 1887. believe it did not then occur to me that some one of these abundant places might have been offered to me s0ith0ut issiustice; now think 1t should have occurred to y0u. If it did occur to me, I was not the man to ask for it think that should not have been necessa- ". only remember that no friend at Albany inquired as to my pecuniary cir cumstances; that your friend, (but not 'mine) Robert o. Wetmore, was one of the chief dispensers of your patronage here i; and that such devoted cOmpatriots as A. H. Wells and John Hooks were lifted by you out of pauperism into independence as am glad was not; and yet an inqui- ry from you as to my needs and means at that day would have been timely, and held ever in grateful remembrance.
 In the Harrison campaign of 184O, Twas again designated to edit campaign pa- per. published it as we'll, and ought to have made something by it, in spite of its extremely low price my extreme poverty was the main reason why I did not. It compelled me to hire press-work, mailing &c., done by the job, and high charges fer extra work nearly eat me up. At the close was still without property and in debt but this paper had rather improved my position. <.o <
 Now came the great scramble of the swell mob of coon minstrels and cider suckers at Washing not being count ed in. Several regiments of them went on from this city, hut no one of the whole though I say it, who should not had done so much towards Gen. HarisOn's nomination and election as yours respect fully. I asked nothing, expected noth- ing but goa, G0V. Sea0Grd, ought to haze asked that 4 De Postmaster of NetU York. Your asking would have been in in vain, but it would have been an an act of grace neither wasted nor undeserved.
 Isoon after started The Tribune, because I was urged to do sU by Ourbair. vf yUu1 friends, and because such paper was needed here. Twas promised certain pecu- niary aid in doing this; it might have been given me without cost or risk to anyone. All ever had was loan by peacmeals of $1, 600 from James Coggeswell, God bless his honored memory I did not ask for this, and | think this is the one sole case in which I received apecuniary favor from a political associate. am very thankful that he did not die till it was fully repaid.
 And here let me honor one grateful rec ollection. When the Whig party under your rule had offices to give ney name acas sOt hhOugn or; but when in 1842 43 we were hopelessly out of power, was honored with the party nomination for State Printer. When we came again to have State Printer to elect as we'll as nominate, the place went to Weed, as 1t ought. Yet it ia worth something to mow, 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 patrenage to H J. Raymond, and enable St, John to show forth his Times as the organ Of the Whig State Administration I should have been still more grateful.
 In 1s43 your star again arose, and my waxmest hopes were realized in your cleo ton to the Senate. | was no longer needy and had no more claim than desire to be recognized by Gen. Taylor. think Ihad some claim to forhearance from you. What received thereupon was mosi hnmiiating lecture, in the shape of a de cision in the libel case of Redfield and Prngle, aud an obligation to publish il in my own and the other journal of oul supposed firm. thought, and still thinl | this lecture needlessly cruel and mortify ing. The plainfiAs, after using my col umns to the extent Of their needs or de sires, stopped writing, and called on mt | for the name af their assailant. prof fefed if Co them "a thoroughly responsi ble name. They refused to accept fl, un less it should prove to be one of the fou or i've first men in Batavia !-when the, had known from the first who 1t was, ant thzt itwas neither of them. They wouli not accent that which they. had demanded