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The Greeley Record : Showing the Opinions and Sentiments of Horace Greeley, PDF eBook

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I soon after started The Tribune, because I was urged to do so by certain of your friends, and because such a paper was needed here.

I was promised certain pecuniary aid in so doing it might have been given me without cost or risk to anyone.

All I ever had was a loan by piece meal of$1,000 from James Coggeshall, God bless his honored memory I did not ask for this, and I think it is the one sole case in which I ever received a.

Pecuniary favor from a' political associate. I am very thankful that he did not die till it was fully repaid. And here let me honor one grateful recollection. When the Whig party under your rule had offices to give, my name was never thought-of; but when in 1842 - 43 we were hopelessly out of power, I was honored with the party nomination for State Printer.

When we came again to have a State Printer to elect as well as nominate, the place went to Weed, as it ought.

Yet it is worth something to know, that there was once a time when it was not deemed too great a sacrifice to recognize me as belonging to your household.

If a new effice had not since been created on purpose to give its valuable patronage to H.

J. Raymond, and enable St. John to show forth his Times as the organ of the Whig State Administration, 1 should have been still more grateful.

In 1848 your star again arose, and my warmest hopes were realized in your election to the Senate.

I was no longer needy, and had no more claim than desire to be recognized by Gen.

Taylor. I think I had some claim to forbearance from you. What I received thereupon-was a. Most humiliating lecture, in the shape of'a decision in the libel case of Redfield and Pringle, and an obligation to publish it in my own and the other journal of our supposed firm.

I thought, and still think, this lecture needlessly cruel and mortifying.

The plaintiffs, after using my columns to the extent of their needs or desires, stopped writing, and called on me for the name of their assailant.

I proffered it to them, - a thor

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