I think you exalted your own judicial sternness and fearlessness unduly at my expense.

I think you had a better occasion for the display of these qualities when Webb threw himself entirely upon you for a pardon which he had done all a man could do to demerit.

I have referred also to Weed's reading me out of the Whig party--my crime being, in this as in some other things, that of doing to-day what more politic persons will not be ready to do till to-morrow.

But this last spring, after the Nebraska question had created a new state of things at the North, one or two personal friends, of no political consideration, suggested my name as a candidate for governor, and I did not discourage them.

I told them I neither could nor would touch it; on the contrary, I loathed and repelled it.

I am sure Weed did not mean to humiliate me; but he did it.

But had he and you been favourable, there would have been a party in the State ere this which could and would have elected me to any post, without injuring itself or endangering your re-election.

At length I was nettled by his language--well intended, but very cutting as addressed by him to me--to say, in substance, 'Well, then, make Patterson governor, and try my name for lieutenant.

I should have hated to serve as lieutenant-governor, but I should have gloried in running for the post.

I want to have my enemies all upon me at once; am tired of fighting them piecemeal.

And, though I should have been beaten in the canvass, I know that my running would have helped the ticket, and helped my paper.

No other name could have been put on the ticket so bitterly humbling to me as that which was selected.

I judge, as we might indeed well know from his nobleness of disposition, that he has no idea of saying or doing anything wrong or unkind; but it is sad to see him so unhappy.

He understood as well as I did that my position with regard to him, though more independent than it had been, was nowise hostile, and that I was as ready to support his advancement as that of any other statesman, whenever my judgment…

But when carried away by its convictions of duty to other, and, in its judgment, higher and more beneficent objects, we have as little right as inclination to complain.

The Tribune takes with it, wherever it goes, an indomitable and powerful pen, a devoted, a noble, and an unselfish zeal.

Greeley was much abler, more indomitably industrious, and, as we believed, a better man in all respects.

We believed him indifferent alike to the temptations of money and office, desiring only to become both 'useful' and 'ornamental,' as the editor of a patriotic, enlightened, leading, and influential public journal.

For years, therefore, we placed Horace Greeley far above the 'swell mob' of office-seekers, for whom, in his letter, he expresses so much contempt.

We had no sympathy with, and little respect for, a constituency that preferred 'Jim' Brooks to Horace Greeley.

Nearly forty years of experience leaves us in some doubt whether, with political friends, an open, frank, and truthful, or a cautious, calculating, non-committal course is not the right, but the easiest and most politic.

Few candidates are able to bear the truth, or to believe that the friend who utters it is truly one.

Did he not attain, in the sixteen years, a high position, world-wide reputation, and an ample fortune?

Admit, as we do, that he is not as wealthy as we wish he was, it is not because the Tribune has not made his fortune, but because he did not keep it--because it went, as other people's money goes, to friends, to pay indorsements, and in…

We, on the other hand, have ever held the relation of newspaper editor and subscriber as one of fraternity.