ntly at the court of Nicaragua.[757]

[Footnote 755: Thurlow Weed Barnes, _Life of Thurlow Weed_, Vol. 2, p.
273.]

[Footnote 756: New York _Tribune_, March 29, 1861.]

[Footnote 757: "Hornby, April 3, 1861. Dear Seward: I shall have to
take a Gentleman with me that can speak the Spanish language and
correct bad English. That being well done I can take care of the
ballance [Transcriber's Note: so in original] Greeley to the contrary
notwithstanding.... You have much at stake in my appointment as it is
charged (and I know how justly) to your account."--Unpublished letter
in files of State Department.]

James S. Pike's selection for minister resident to The Hague seemed to
contradict Greeley's declaration that he neither asked nor desired the
appointment of any one. For years Pike, "a skilful maligner of Mr.
Seward,"[758] had been the Washington representative of the _Tribune_,
and the belief generally obtained that, although Pike belonged to
Maine and was supported by its delegation in Congress, the real power
behind the throne lived in New York. Nevertheless, the _Tribune's_
editor, drifting in thought and speech in the inevitable direction of
his genius, soon indicated that he had had no personal favours to ask.

[Footnote 758: Thurlow Weed Barnes, _Life of Thurlow Weed_, Vol. 2, p.
326.]

Seward's appointment as secretary of state chilled Greeley's love for
the new Administration.[759] The _Tribune's_ editor seems never to
have shown an exalted appreciation of Abraham Lincoln. Although they
served together in Congress, and, for twenty years, had held to the
same political faith, Greeley, apparently indifferent to his
colleague's success, advocated, in 1858, the return of Stephen A.
Douglas to the United States Senate, because of his hostility to the
Lecompton policy of the Buchanan administration, and it was intimated
that this support, backed by his powerful journal, may have resulted
in Douglas' carrying the Legislature against Lincoln. In 1860, Greeley
favoured Bates for President. He was not displeased to have Lincoln
nominated, but his battle had been to defeat Seward, and when Lincoln
turned to Seward for secretary of state, which meant, as Greeley
believed, the domination of the Weed machine to punish his revolt
against Seward, Greeley became irretrievably embittered against the
President.

[Footnote 759: "I am charged with having opposed the selection of
Governor Seward for a place in President Lincol