New York, March 4,1860.
Friend Pike: I
don't happen to have that $10 to spare to-day; but I'll do the next best thing —
I'll double the bet. Do you “take it”? You ought to be rejoiced to see your
favorite phrase used grammatically for once.
Why don't you go in for having the printing done by the
lowest bidder? There is no other way.
When you see the Charleston convention in blast, you'll see
stars. Then you'll see that the people are stronger than Washington City.
Yours,
Horace Greeley.
J. S. Pike, Esq.
SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the
Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850
to 1860, p. 500
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