New York, August 22, 1850.
Dear Pike: I
hope you'll go to Congress, and in due season to heaven, but the look is not so
good as I could wish. However, go ahead, and you will be certain to land
somewhere. . . .
If you can manage to handle your adversary as venomously as
you did the Compromise, you will at least make him sorry he ever encountered
you.
Luck to you, and don't forget to telegraph me the first news
of your election.
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. 85
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