In her later years she came by inheritance to my mother, and so
rather curiously, it happened that while my father openly professed
anti-slavery sentiments, my mother was a slaveholder, presumably one of
the last of that class in the state of New York.
One of our neighbors in the Old Colonie was Thurlow Weed, the Boss of
the Whig party in the Empire State, and the founder, proprietor and
editor of the _Albany Evening Journal_, one of the most influential
papers in the country. Father was on terms of near-intimacy with Mr.
Weed, and this brought him in touch with Horace Greeley. Father, though
never a politician, was interested in party affairs and in constant
communication with the Old Line Whigs of the Henry Clay following, and I
am under the impression that the consultations of the political firm of
Seward, Weed and Greeley were sometimes held in father's library. When
he was editing the "Log Cabin" the party paper in the first Harrison
campaign, Mr. Greeley was often a guest at our house, and at that
period, he and father formed a warm friendship which continued during
the remainder of their lives.
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