William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune

“ [176] nominate, the place went to Weed, as it ought. ... If a new office had not been created on purpose to give its valuable patronage to H. J. Raymond and enable St. John to show forth his Times as the organ of the Whig State administration, I should have been still more grateful.”

Reviewing the recent campaign, he contradicted what Weed in his later autobiography said about seeking the nomination for Governor, saying that, when Weed called on him to state why he could not support him for that nomination, “I [Greeley] had never asked nor counted on his support.” He “should have hated to serve as Lieutenant-Governor,” but would have “gloried in running” so as to have had all his enemies upon him at once. But the nomination was given to Raymond, and he [Greeley] made the fight. The letter closed by saying that the writer trusted that they should never be found in opposition; “all I ask is that we shall be counted even on the morning after the first Tuesday in February, as aforesaid, and that I may thereafter take such course as seems best without reference to the past.”

Seward did not even inform Weed of the contents of this letter, and Weed was ignorant of them until its publication, after Raymond,