New York, May 16, 1850.
Dear P.: I
presume I confiscated your dollar — Swartwouted with it — absorbed it. I will
repent and refund at the desk.
As to the editorship of the Republic, I beg to be
excused. I shouldn't like to be called up to the big house after some cabinet
flusteration and told, “York, you're not wanted.” No, sir, I thank ye! That
wouldn't suit my amiable and modest disposition. It might tempt me to
blaspheme, which I now studiously avoid.
What the deuce is the meaning of this row the lot of you are
kicking up about the President's plan and Clay's Omnibus I can't conceive. I
read all your letters most earnestly, but can't make out what you mean. The two
schemes are six of one and half a dozen t'other; but if either is six and a
half, I think it is Clay's; for that takes care of New-Mexico, which t'other
don't. I mistrust you are very factious and selfish, some of you.
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. 62
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