New York, May 2, 1850.
Friend Pike: I
beg you not to be diffident. I know how common the fault is among Washington
writers, and how hard to be overcome, but I beseech you, as Mrs. Chick would
say, “to make an effort.” You don't know what may come of it.
Mr. Snow of ours will hand you this letter. He goes on to
discover, with your help, that genius of an “inventive turn of mind,” who knows
just what mansion great men retire to when they don't retire at all. Good boy,
that — we must hire his imagination.
I like your letters, and if you won't call Foote and Butler “Democrats”
in such sense as to imply that I am something else, I don't think I shall ever
take liberties with your letters, except it may be the liberty of dissenting
from some of their positions.
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. 50
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