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Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir ...
Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir Author:Thurlow Weed, Harriet A. Weed Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 18221829. AT ROCHESTER. EVERARD PECK. THE STATE ADMINISTRATION. IT8 Place In History. Twitting A Journeyman. His Reply. MneMonic... more » Kxercises. Daniel Webster's Election To The Senate. The Character Of Washington. Anniversary Of American InDependence. Death Of De Witt Clinton. George Dawson's Reminiscences. Letters From Albert H. Tracy.Frederick Whittlesey. Chancellor Lansing. There used to run northward from what was Buffalo Street in old Rochester a rough, swampy thoroughfare, skirted by narrow footpaths on either side, with huge logs lying in the middle, to keep wagons or stage-coaches from sinking iu the mud. Such was the Fitzhugh Street of sixty years ago, upon which Mr. Weed took a house when he went to live in Rochester. The thriving village of that day has now become a prosperous, beautiful city, but the " march of improvement" yet leaves intact what was a " poor printer's " home from 1822 to 1830. Now, for the first time since beginning editorial service, his surroundings became thoroughly congenial. Aside from the social, business, and political advantages of his new place of residence, he had an influential friend in his employer, Mr. Peck, proprietor of the " Telegraph," with whom he enjoyed while life lasted unbroken relations of respect and confidence. Mr. Peck was a Clintonian, but disinclined to take any active part in politics, and thus the political direction of his paper fell upon its junior editor, an arrangement, it need hardly be said, exactly to the liking of Mr. Weed, though not perfectly satisfactory to the Bucktails of Monroe County. [MR. PECK TO MR. WEED.] Rochester, January, 27, 1847. Dear Siu, Yours of the 22d has relieved me of an apprehension I felt lest you might think I made too free use...« less