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 which arose between Greeley and Seward, partners in several newspaper enterprises. Greeley had another grievance against Seward : when the Whig Party was out of control Greeley was nominated as State Printer, but when at the next election the Whigs were successful the office went to his rival, Henry J. Ray- mond, of The Times. Greeley took this very much to heart, as it enabled to quote his own words "St. John to show his Times as the organ of the Whig State Administration." Later, Raymond was nominated on the Whig ticket for Lieutenant- Governor and the fight for his election was left by Seward to Greeley. There were numerous other instances where Greeley thought he was treated unjustly by Seward. The story has al- ready been told how Seward pardoned Webb, the editor of The Courier and Enquirer a paper which had continually abused Greeley.

But Greeley waited his time as he said he would. His day came when the Republican Party met at Chicago in 1860. How Greeley defeated Seward and nominated Lincoln in that Con- vention has been told so often that no repetition is necessary. Vanity Fair, the cartoon weekly of the period, told it in wordless journalism with a picture entitled "Et Tu, Greeley?" with Seward portrayed as Caesar, Greeley, of The New York Tribune, as Brutus, Raymond, of The New York Times, as Marc Antony, and Blair, of The Washington Globe, as Casca. By way of repe- tition, Vanity Fair told the same story in verse (Brutus Greeley speaking) :

I have nipped him at Chicago, I have made my Seward wail,

I've ordained that Uncle Abram Shall be ridden