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

[45] States Bank, but he would not print in the Evening Journal, in 1836, Webster's speech at a Whig mass meeting, in Boston, in support of the bank scheme, and against Jackson's veto, saying that two sentences in the veto message would carry ten votes against the bank to one gained for it by Webster's eloquence-viz., that our Government “was endangered by the circumstance that a large amount of the stock of the United States Bank was owned in Europe,” and that the bank was designed “to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

Weed has been severely criticized for the defeat of Clay in the National Convention of 1839. Clay received early assurance that Weed was “warmly and zealously” in favor of his election, and Shepard, in his Martin Van Buren, says that “the slaughter of Henry Clay had been effected by the now formidable Whig politicians of New York, cunningly marshaled by Thurlow Weed.” Weed did work against the election of Clay delegates to the convention, but he did so because he foresaw that Clay would probably be defeated at the polls, and that there was a good chance of Harrison's election; and he proved himself a wise friend of Clay by urging him, in the campaign of 1844, to write