New York, August 13, 1860.
Friend Pike: I
very cheerfully contribute this $20 toward the Maine election fund, providing
that you will see it honestly expended. I don't trust the average run of Maine
politicians, who are thievish (even the priests) and beggarly (even the leading
editors). They are a poor lot, and will swallow all the funds they can get hold
of.
I did not know nor suspect what Dana's opinion was on the
point in dispute, but I consider him a better judge than Old Buck or Cushing.
I shall be greatly disappointed as well as grieved if you
lose your district. Think of Frank Blair, and be ashamed of your doubts and
quickened in your works.
Yours,
Horace Greeley.
James S. Pike,
Esq., Calais, Maine.
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. 524
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