re, and for state offices, regardless
of their political or party principles and character. And this, too,
when senators to be elected had to choose a senator in Congress. But
instead of 'reading' Mr. Greeley 'out of the Whig party,' it will be
seen that after Mr. Greeley had read himself out of the party by
discarding 'party usages, mandates, and platforms,' the _Evening
Journal_, in the language and spirit of friendship, predicted just
what happened, namely, that, in due time, Mr. Greeley would 'return to
his long-cherished belief that great and beneficent aims must
continue, as they commenced, to be wrought out through Whig
instrumentalities.'

"We submit, even to Mr. Greeley himself, whether there is one word or
thought in the article to which he referred justifying his accusation
that he had been 'read out of the Whig party' by the _Evening
Journal_.

"In December, 1837, when we sought the acquaintance and co-operation
of Mr. Greeley, we were, like him, a 'poor printer,' working as hard
as he worked. We had then been sole editor, reporter, news collector,
'remarkable accident,' 'horrid murder,' 'items' man, etc., etc., for
seven years, at a salary of $750, $1000, $1250, and $1500. We had also
been working hard, for poor pay, as an editor and politician, for the
twelve years preceding 1830. We stood, therefore, on the same footing
with Mr. Greeley when the partnership was formed. We knew that Mr.
Greeley was much abler, more indomitably industrious, and, as we
believed, a better man in all respects. We foresaw for him a brilliant
future; and, if we had not started with utterly erroneous views of his
objects, we do not believe that our relations would have jarred. 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. Had Governor Seward known, in 1838, that Mr. Greeley coveted
an inspectorship, he certainly would have received it. Indeed, if our
memory be not at fault, Mr. Greeley was offered the clerkship of the
Assembly in 1838. It was certainly pressed upon us, and, though at
that time, like Mr. Greeley, desperately poor, it was declined.

"We cannot think that Mr. Greeley's political friends, after the
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