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F M 3 Adams, John Qr Albany.— Butler Albany Argus.— Caiitine its ov Bennett's artic Albany Resency, cabal.— 8— -wit Bennett on 96- Allen, Stephen. - Hall Bank 71 repeal com. 114 Alley, Saul.— ma American Land ( low, with publ to the people 1 Antlmaaonry. — ; Anti-Renters, Th Buren and the. Appointments to cal turn on poll 46, 47, 48— fiar Hoyt on 49— Bi on 51, 54— Mr. inga and twistii Appraisers.— whc Atwood, Henry C ADVERTISEMENT. As it is probable that this work will reach a second edition, communications respecting it may be mailed for me to the post-office, New York, or delivered at my dwelling house, South Seventh street, corner of Fourth, Williamsburgh, Long Y. W. L. MACKENZIE. Island, N Bank of America. Bank of Auburn- Bank of Brooklyn, Bank of State of 1 1 — Jackson's back to 109. Bank of the Uniti a fortune by 61 for a branch 98, 100, 101, 104, 1 to llO-SilesW 104— Duane on 1 Bank craft.— ButI much with little on 114, 115— bar Banking.— [See th Barker, Gen'l Geo and attorney of ( Barker. G. R. — cas Barker, Jacob. — Wi 16— on W. and 1 28, 29 — convictei quacker, duellist charter 31— comj Beardaley, S. of On Beers, Joseph D.— ; stocks 125— his t 147. Bennett, James Gor strong for Van B Enq. 92— on Mui treats help from comment 95 — tur anguish, i'6.— on Barlow 126. Benton, Tho. Hart.- Betts, Samuel R.- enormous fees in Bets, betting.- Mr Buren 61 to 63— 66-Hoyt 66— Sill ^ 3'/'i5 ALPHABETICAL INDEX. A. Adams, John Qnincy.— 38, 39, 40, 109. Albany.— Butler's opinion of 32. Albany Argus.— notice of— Van Buren its main stay— Cantme Its owner 88, 89— on Jackson aO-copies A,?""" D " ""iclM 96— on both sides 117. Albany Resency, or Van Buren's organized political cabal.— 8— with Swartwout 85— Le^ifett on 89— Bennett on 96— known as ' the bankjunto' 10-i. Allen, Stephen. -45— proposes a 8500,000 Tammany Hall Bank 71— his opinions on banks 72— on repeal com. 114— on suspension 148. Alley, Saul,— made a U. S. Bank Director, 100. American Land Co.- to buy the liest of public lands low, with public money, and sell them again hi-'h to the people 122, 123, ^ ° Anti-masonry.— 10, 42, 113. Anti-Renters, The.— outdone by Butler 18, 101— Van Buren and the, in 1812, 123, 124. Appointments to ufflce.— 8— bucktails 26, 33-medi- ?o I.li'^l^" politics 46— Coddington's art of getting 46, 47, 48— Hamilton on4S-Ingham on 48, 56— l! Hoyt on 49— Butler and Swartwout on 50— J. Hoyt on 51, 54— Mr. Van Buren on 44 to 46,53— turii- mgs and twistlngs 55— Ingham on 57. Appraisers.— who and how made 1 50. Atwood, Henry C— notice of 87. B. Bank of America.— 27, 28. Bank of Auburn — 31. Bankof Brooklyn.— frauds on 137. Bank of State of N. Y.-withholds Hoyt'.q account, 11— Jackson's true character of 106— doposites back to 109. . Bank of the United Stales.— 105— J. Van Buren lost a fortune by 61— Butler and Van Buren petition ;m''.m''"f^^,',^"'^'«,'^'«' S^Cambrefeng on i^,'in°'i-',**'-.,'r°?T^- W' Lawrence on 102,108 i^"?r^''^^^"S'>' ""lO^- 107-Tibbets'8 plan 104— Duane on 107— policy of 151. Bank craft.— Butler's art or mystery of— payin" ""'?^^".'J ■'"'«' 1^ '" 24-lb. 104-Phelp3 & Co° on 114, l]5-bank of Metropolis 123. Banking/— [See this index generally]— 105. Barker, Gen'l Geo. P.— Altorney General of N Y and attorney of City Bank, Buffalo, 68. Barker. Q. R.— cashier, &c. 29, Z). Barker, Jacob.— was buying the old Buffalo Bank, 15, io~on" ^- """^ ^- 21— his deceptions, 22, 23 24 28, 29— convicted of fraud 28, 29~is poor 30-a quacker, duellist, and petitioner for a U. S. Bank charier 31— complains of Riker46— Butler on 144. Beardsley, S. of Oneida.— 61, 109. Beers, Joseph D.-29-borrows at New Hope 69— on fltocka 125-hls bank (see N. A. Trusl C^) 145 to Bennett, James Gordoa— 9— letters to Hoyt 91 to 95— strong for Van Buren-hls ' big gun'-on Cour. & Enq. 92— on Mumford and a «2S00 loan 93— in- treats help from V. Buren 94— V. B.'s reply and comment 95— turns round against friends 96— his Banow 126 ~°" ""'" ^'■-^^'■'^y o" 112-expo8es Benton, Tho. Hart.— on Custom House 127. Belts, Samuel R.— notice of 141— Hoyt and 142— enormous fees in court 142—144 Bets, belling,-Mr. V. Buren on 42-52-J. Van Buren 61 to 63-C. W. Lawrence's 64-Igaac HiU 66-Hoyt66-Silaa Wright ag'at 67. "^'' "'" Birchard, Matthew.-unite* with Hoyt to affect un- duly law costs and juries 145, 146. Bishop and Kemble.-stock-jobbere, Senators and conspirators 124-trial, &c. 125, ,2^/*'""°™ "»" ^r 87 rtr^'nv,"'v^'^'"i'-"°'''^« "'■■ ""<» his pa. per 87 H8,— Hoyt, Noah, &c. set him up, ib. Bleecker Joseph r.-(Custom House officer ) 131 '2 BownOV-alter.-friendly to John Thompson M-llsi" j^^&*-opposed to Col. Young 73-olfice to a friend 86-Custom House com'r 127, 128-notice of 127 Broker3,-compared by Butler to leeches, 24-J. Van Buren wishes to avoid 60 •<•»«"• Broome Co. N. Y.-' a crazy county' 42. Broome to. Bank.— notice of 99. Brown, G. W.-28, 29, 75. BuckuMs.'-^J6"27,tr"'"""^' """^ «""=" «'• Biinner, Rudolph.-l48, 52, 55. ^c^teJ!^^^. {22''-''' ''^^''" «"-" ««" '»" Burr, Aaron.— his treason 83. Butler Benjamin F.-his birth and ancestry-parter- ship will, Mr. Van Buren-banking sp^cuCs 3-p ofession of religion, 14-characler of Hoy"! Ib-pres dency of the W. k W. Bank 16 to 26— morals, rt.-gulls the Dutch 18-threa ts 2olchI^ racier of Clinton, 14, 21, 24, 8:^ conduct' rtVTewed 27 ^£^-«n>bition 27-a buckluil 2;'~on Van Ne.^" • ' ''^connection with Barker 28, 29-artful ad" vice to Noah 38 39- for a caucus^ A.iTra-wants Va^BuZ7^"''S^ 45-on oflicials not t7mtl vanuurtn 49— on Hoyt and Deur 50-on Yni.nff of Hp.'fr'^"'^/^''" ^f'"'°"'« mess^e on puri?f of elections 77-prays for a branch of U. S. Bank 98- writes Eown'e's'' anti-d'emoc'ra'tic'r^iio?t \\ on Jackson 119-borrowing 121, 122-feeri38-ex- IIS— l^i'Tv^*^'?'- ^"'J; 'i»-enorinous income'Vfo 145-hvpocrisy and deceit 145, 146-counsel to Beers k Co. l48-on chancery 149. ci"i2?t^i'23." '"^"''*"''" ""d American Land Butler, Mrs. B. F.-her curious epistles 139, 140. C. Calhoun, John.-9, 41, 108, 121, Cainbreleng C. C ---69 visits Crawford-on private letters g-for Coddington 46- wanted to be consul at Liverpool 48-on the choice of the president, for p! M. N. Y. 57-sel s Hoyt stock 70-Spicer refers to 75-sends politicians to the Customs 86-for and against U. §. Bank 100 to 107-nolice of 106 1& Cant'ne, Moses L-on W. & W. bank 31 -stal^ priA- ter 89-on Buffalo bank 122-and anti-rent 12! .^fd.tln^^.i^'?""''''''"'-^"/" ''''='«l« » president, 38 to 40-Butler's report m favor of 117, 118-nomina- lions m, anti-republican 139. "omina here^I^g^*"^'"^' ^~* '^°^ chanceUor 1,38-law Clay, Hanry -38, 39, 40, 52, 108, 113. of'?S; vL^p"-"^""'*" ""il' ^^l- 24' 89-enmity of the Van Buren party to 25- Van Buren on 3(1 45-his friends vote against Butler45-exposes the organized corps' 77-for a law code 107. Ooe, W. S.— a bad naval officer 130, 131, 133 Coddington J. L-S, 79_advi3e8 V. B. 45-Cambro- leng for 46-lelters to Hoyt, wants to be Survoyor ifir^I'?."P^*\'^^'''°"' ''^''^'"es to get a place 46 to 48-Cambreleng comforts him 67— Bennett 92. Code of Laws (American.)— 7 107 Common Law (English.)— 7, 107. ALPHABETICAL IKDEX. Convenlion, N. Y. State, 1846.-7, lis, 105, 128 Corning, Era8tus,-68, 101. ' ' > •«• Corporation«.--unpopul«r in Oeorgia 120 Crawford, W. H. -discloses old cabinet eecreta 9- the caucua canuidate for preildent 38, 39-lnault8 adopted citizens 119. Croswell, Edwin.-9, 10, a'i-Beta the AriruB S9 Currency.-lSce banks, bank of U. S., Builor'stock. jobbing, &C.1 lO.--,, 161. ' Cutting, Francis B.— 63, 68— on banks 1 16. D. Dallas, Geo. M.— and tlie bank 107. Decatur, Col. John (of the lobby) 77. JJelafleld, John.— in Del. New Hope Bank 69. Deposites, the.-68-97 lo 106-Jack8On on 106- Lawrence on 109— where they go 121, 122— Bowne * Co, be? fi;r 128. ' Dickenson, Daniel S.— he and his Iwnk 99. District Attorney, So. Dist. N. Y.-a much sought prize 48 to W. = Duane W. J.— refused the Russian embassy 81 , 107— on U. S, Bank ib. Dudley, Charles E.— sent to Senate-4i>-letter to Hoy I 49 -opposed tu Young ',3. Duer, John— efforts to oust 48 to 57— Butler on 60— Hoyt bitter 52 to 56. Duer, W. A. 49, on 'Change 67-lo lobby lb.-hi« bank nock 68- agenl to J. V. Buren 61 to 64, partner 6.*-Stock operations 69— aids the Globe 88— Bennett's let- ters to 91 to 95-' deadly hostility' to a foreigner 9 — Cambreleng to 100 to 107-Marcy instrucU 113— on repeal com. 114, 'lii— his gold mine 120- embezilonieiits 129 to 1»1— career as coUoctor lb,— his trial 137— seeking office 32, 33,41,86-! getting it 115— escapes a criminal trial 142— In- terferes with juries 145, '6-harrasscs the mer- Beers's 119 ''*''' "^' '^'"'•'s """^-'reaaury at "■l^''4V"l!£f''iT?"!^ "'?.'' ^' ^"^ 21-letter. 32, .•J}' ',*!?'.'}'' IS^-vile doctrines 32, 33-agent to Silas Wright 107-B'pand Kemble amuTW- priiicmles 25, 32, 33, 138. ^^^ Hyatt, Thomas.— sent to penitentiary 76. Importers, N. Y.— how treated LIO to 152 '"f.","""; ,?• J^'-on office-seeking fever 48, 66-on Irish, the.— 119. Irving, John T.— excellent sentiments of 71. Ivcfl, George R.-hires cashiers 132-hl8 frauda winked at 134. Eckford, Henry— remarkable verdict, Butler altor- iicy f loo, ^0=°"^^' J°^'^ W.-27-Bishop and Kemble, and n ..' o— .how qualified fora jude'e 140, notice of, ib. Wections, interferences in, by officials.— Jefterson on 74— party practice 74 to 90— Skinner 103. m'm ^™^'''*"^ *"'' ^'=8 Pre3idoni.-25, 38, Espionage at Custom House.- 78 to 81. Everett, Edward.-on U. S. bank and deposites 109. Exchange Bank, Barker's.— 22, 23. F. ^*6™ 68 *"** Mechanics' Bank, Albany.— 17, 18, 20, Fitch, Francis B.— got an Inspectorship 86. If^' A?'"'**' C— votes Clinton out of the Canal r*. ??r°?P?^* Young 73-on politics 113-on banks 1 16— Arkansas stock 147. '^'"'36 ^' ■*"~*"''''°'"' ^- H--evidence of 130, Gallatin, Albert.— 100, 115. Glent worth case.— U, 88, 110, 140. Globe, The.— V. Buren, &c. on 87— press bought by Noah, Hoyt, &c. 88, profits, ib. Gold Mine.— Jesse Hoyt's 120 Gouverneur, Samuel L.— 52. Graham, John L.— recommends Le Foy 82— in N A Trust Co. 147. ' " Greeley, Horace.— prophecy on Hoyt 133. Hackley, Aaron.— in lobby 122. Haileck, Fitz Greene, 30. Hamilton J A.— accuses Judge Van Ness 27— for ' spoils' 48. Hill, Gov. Isaac— on bets 66. Hoyt, Jesse.— prosecutes Wood— leaves letters, 9— his early life 13-admitted as a lawyer 15-fit for a cashier 15. l&-poor 32— subservient 34, 36— ap- pointed Coilector of N. Y. by V. B., who endorses his paper 35-elected to N. Y. Legisl. 41 -tries to oust Duer and become U. S. Att 48 to 67_9harD argument with V. Buren 51 to 66-hires V. B a valet 51— IS disinurested— was educated by V B 64— Ingham about ' embeziiing' 66— his beta 66— Jackson, Andrew. -V. Buren has his confidence 54— S>. "oo ""." ">? R"8''»n embassy 81— borrows of loe" ^~*'^"'^'^ by Argus 90-describes pet banka ■'^iJ!"."',??"'^''-'*'-*'^ Blair 8S-custom house coni r 1^7, Jetlerson Thomas.-on officials meddling in elec- lions 74— practice by modem demos. 71 to 79 Jolinson, Jeromus.— notice of 80, 81, M8 o/ w'Vv^- Xi-'^^i P"™ 8, II, 28, 30, 66-case of W. W Van Ness 27-ca8e of W. L. Marcy 45- P'*!'"!'' ^Ji^y '^"'' °9-J- V- Buren, do. 58 to 64- in lobby 122--Bishop and Kemble •24-a chapter "^l^^^^^l^:^"'"'''' <=-" '^^-' of Juries.-defeated l^y judiciary in efforts to punish great rogues 28~Hoyt regulates 145, 146. Kemble, J. C.-See Bishop * Kemble 124. Kendall Amos —107— Bennett on 95. Kibbe, Isaac— notice of 122. King, Charles.- Accuses W. W. Van Ness 27 U Chaise, Fouche k Co.-cruel treatment of 143. rT^;^ "in v"Tro'S"' ?7„'^» f^'""'non and Chan- eery]— m N. Y. 137 to 140— fees (see Butler ^ er^l^^h^^;'^ T-'T'" nif fike'the^hol. 64 }%~h\l ^J^^ ""^i""" '^'" P"" election' 82l-hJi™ ,h. rT^^lo* ^ 74-recommendations by l^^^l.L.?"'* ^""^ *"<^ ^'n« ihe Bank ' 10°— Jackson on 106— not ce of 108— in Cton- S 1^* «"^k-Jobber lIO-Ugget{'^lTo--o"„ ""a^ "p^?itK7" ^-"' '^'^"«« «^his cement ^Arlis'sr '^-^''^•>'e' at New Hope 69-editor f:^Pnv' ??r*d-29-Receiver N. A. Trust Co. 147. 82-l'ia ^~^ °'^''^ ""* nominates Marcy Leggett, Wm.-on Croswell 89-V. Buren subscribes T 90-describes Bowne, &c. UO-on mTcv 116 Lewis, Morgan.-defrauded of «15,000 b7Lombard Life & Fire Co.— 28, 29. ^Tn'^ n'?"'i?'^; L— ''otes for Butler 4&-on bank- ing 117— likes to sit with Bishop 126. Livingston, Edward.— 32 33 34 4i fa m ^^ia Lobbying.-33, 87, i22 ' ' *'' ^^' ^'' ^^• Loco Focos.— 73. Lott, John A,— a judge, &c. 138. Loveti, the ban McDuffie, Geori MacOee, Inspec McNeven, Dr. \ bee. Clintonia Manhattan BanI Marcy, Wm. L. ruin 45— J. V. 60— bets on 1 borrowing 69- hank branch UO, Ul-on com'r— badco Mason, Gen'l Jo banks 109. Maxwell, Hugh. Merchants of Nc difficulties In I MerchanU' BanI Mejerole, Abrahi Meaerole, B, J.- Miller, Sylvanus Morris Canal and Morris R. H. (P. 11— new-born Mumford, John I Murray, Col. J. 1 Native American Naval Office.— It Throop and Co Nelson, Ch'f Jus Neville, Major M Nevins, tt. H.— New Hope Delaw Newspapers.— U8( New York Custoi tioneering in, engine (chaps. 78 to 81— Bown bezzlements in get offices in 82 stealings 80--cl New York Post N. Y. Evening Pc N. Y. Heraid.-9- B. and his regei N. Y. Morning Ni N. Y. Standard.— N. Y. Times.- He Noah, M. M.— 9- political knaver Phillips to Swa structions to 38 printing, ib.—\ 44— helps to bi printing througl Ulshoeffer on 13 North Am'n True props it— notice Nominations by tl bad system in us Oakley, J. — 'g or; recommends Wa O'Conneli, Daniel,' Offices and Appoin' Ogden, Henry.— Ca 135, 136. Ogbury, p.-in Ci O'Sullivan,J.L.-0 82,85. Oicott, T. W.-17, Papers (Private.)-l Phelps, Thaddeus." 114, '15. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. Lovetl, the bank leller.— 126, '6. M. McDuffie, George.— 109, 121. MacOee, Inspectur John.— 77, 78. T^.'pil'P'' "'■.^T"'"."PP- '° » ^-Jical office, Dec. tllntonian-Jnckson 46. Manhattnn Bank.— ii» deposites 121 n,^h^"\- '^-^^^ ^''"' Buren eave. him from Sl^ll""''' ^; .^"™" •"'''*''« by his loan message 60-bcts on him 61 to 63-on atock-iobbina 67- borrowmg 69-nominate«l 8!i-pray» for a U S ull i^,?"'^'' 9S-letter on breeches and bravery r;„> Li"" •?•''''" 1" 'o "■«-» Mexican com'r-bad conduct lIi5-Hoyt'» hinu to 116 SstoS!'^"'"'^-"'' ^"^ •^"J^obl^f i^'-on Maxwell, Hugh.— 28, 29, 66. Zn.Tn '"'.'*?r York— Hoyl ag'st 140, 145, 146- airntulties In thoir busmess in N. Y. 150 to 152 Merchanu' Bank.-28, 59. » • ■«! lo i j<. Me^erole, Abraham.-how he got a place 81. meaerole, H. J.— alderman and appraiser 81. miller, bylvanus -libel case wi:h Noah 36, ,37. mZ2 S*"h ^o*^ Bank'gCo.-69-Hoyt and the 149. I nL^J*^- ^\>--^'^ code of ' unknown' laws m.-LT .S*;'^''","*!,'"'" PUfB •lections 64. jHumford, John {.-Bennett jealous of 93, 96. Murray, Col. J. B. -notice of 147, 148. Native Americanism.— Greeley on 119. ''T^r^^:r^,%%'"^^'>'-^y -f^'^t*! by N^lT' M '• J"';-'"'*" ''6 ??' an office 108. Neville, .Maior Morgan.-a Burr man 83. Nevins, K. H,-on Stock Go's 147 New Hope Delaware Bridge Co.-accounl of 69 Newspapers.— uses made of 9, 19, 23-power of 111 New tork Custom House, -given to iC^-elii: tioneering in, appointments at-a vist political engine (chaps, lland 19) 75 and 79-espionage in 7S to 81— Bowne and Uwrence's job 127, •8--em. bezzlements in 129 to 136-its patronage i37-who ffl^'^'J," ^' ? '*' 87-mea3Tre?s'1icWngs and stealings 80-cIerks and officers 151. New York Post Office.-boxes 134, salaries, ib. N. Y. Evening Post.-90, 131, 133. R an"f Ss^geiTc^'Se"" "''"' '"« ''-""'«='« ^• n: y: sJaTdL"i.-^.'-°" ^'""°"' h°- ^^' ^■ S' \- H'^SS-~^°y^ an"! the 90. r^n',^'.^-~^-"'^u' "^^ "'*"' Miller-accused of ??, II n*' .''"ir"''y-^i^ ??""er 36. 37_introduce8 Phillips to Swart. 33-Butler an(i V. Buren's in- structions to 38 39-his grievances 3" 40-Sti?e tt|s1o-bt&°Vet°^i-St^t^^ North Am'n Trust Co. [Beers. ]-bankrupt-Hovt props It-notice of 147 to 149 ""'""'P' ""'' Nominations JDy the people.-Butler ac'st 38 118- bad system in use 73, 139. «^ ■"•-», uo- o. Oakley, J.— 'a original friend 86-Bemiett to 92— recommends Wasson 135. O Connell, Daniel,'8 trial.— 7. oS v^ Appointments.-See appointments, &c. 1^"'im"^'~ " '° ^°^^ aHd SwarlwoGt 129, Ogbury, F.-ln Customs 74. a2 85^"' ^' ^■■■''" **""" ^^' ^^■•°" ^"''o"' House Olco'tt, T. W.-..17, 18, 19, 30, 104, 125, 147. Phel|s, Thaddeus....notice of 1I4, repeal letter, ib. Phillips, Joshua.- -a •600,000 embeiilement-Noth his endorser 38— notice of 129 Phillips, Naphtali -Noah's partner 37, 38, 39, 40 fitclier. Col. Nath'l. -72--.an honest man overthrown and regency taeed 45-ln opposition 102. (•"Ik, Ja«. K. -how he treats Jackson's memory 106— in Congress 109-selecta Uwrence 106. llO.-Wlia lJ6-appoinld B. F. Butler 141. Postage rate.").— 108. Price, William M.-helps politicians to places 82— his appointment 140. Purdy, Elijah P. -gets office 76-conduct on the law bench, 16. -repraaeats gen'l gov't at Syracuse 82— proclamation 82. Quackenboss, M. M.-86. R. Religion.-Mr. Butler on 14, 26, 29, 144. Revenue.-returns at N. Y. 129, fraudulent 130 to 1 •36— collection 137. Rogers, Judge Hal8ey.-30--in lobby 122. Root Gen'l li;rastus.-27, 72, 101-t.n Und co. 123. Rudd, Theron.— sad mistake of 142. S. Safety Fund.-68, 106. Selden, Dudlpy.-in Congress, kc. 109, 113. gfV'er, Senator, of Ark.-Smithson legacy and 132. , "^.^'J^^Ser, Judge &C.-26, 39-meddles in poli- tics 103. Slavery. ••- 106, 108, llO-Cambreleng or. 106-lts ef- fects 121. Smith, Morgan L.— 108, 119. Smith, T. L.— the Calhoun man 46, 57. Smithson bequest. — 132. Smuggling in N. Y. State.— 152. Southwick, Solomon.— his vote for governor 42. Spencer, Ch'f Just.-Butler on 139. Spencer, John C.—anti -slavery 108. Spencer, Mark.— 28, 29, 69, 75. Spicer, General Peter.— accepts office 75, his his- tory, tb. Standing armies dangerous to liberty. — 12. Staples, Seth.-(ni stock-jobbing 126. Stock- jobbing.— see ' Butler,' ' J. Barker,' ' Wet- more,' 'J. Van Buren,' 'J. Hoyt,' 'Beers,' 'Ed- monds,' ' Bishop,' ' Kemble,' ' Swartwout,' ' Law- ence,'— Marcy on 67— a regular specimen of 76 and 104— defined 125— wholesale in N. A. Trust Co. 147 to 149. Stone, Col. W. L.— L. Hoyt on 41. Strong, Geo. D.— .ecommends Le Foy 82— in N. A Tru.n Co. 147, 148. Suthirland, Joel B.— in opposition 101. Swanton, Judge.— V. Burer. on 119. Swartwout, Samuel— Coddington's feelings concern- ing 48— letter to, 16.— writes Hoyt to ' push like a devil '—a regular spoils-man 60— his connection with Burr 83-8ettle3 Texas with U. S. funds 84— notice of, ib. and 129— his default 135, 136. Sweet, Egbert G., Customs.— notices of 76, 77, 127. Swift, Genl. Jos. G.— 77. T. Talmage, Thos. G.— president of Beers's bank or trust comp. 149. Tammany Hall.— Steph. Allen's bankof70— Irving's oration at 71— character of 73- Bowne at 128, 139 Taney, Chief Justice.— on U. S. Bank 100. Texas.— 108, 110, 121— Swartwout and Mason's speculations in 84. Thompson, Jonathan.— efforts to displace as Coll'r at N. Y. 48, 61 56, 132. j- v 1 ai Thome, John W., bank-teller.- 67. Throop, Enos T.— 10, 31, 36, 44-a bad naval officer 130, 131— notice of, 16. Tibbets, Elisha.— his plan of a U. S. Bank 101 104 —custom ho. cora'r 127. Tradesmans' Bank.— 30. Treason— Conspiracy.— 9, 12. ALPHABETICAL INDEX. TjUt, PrMld«nt.-hl» Cuttom Ho. Inquiry 97, 130, U. Ulihoeflbr, Henry.-hia letter to Hoyt, egpionaire, »nd dedra to fsid his family nt tlie public crib 78 to JJIihoeffer. Michael, -his letters 139. Unl'ed Stated Lombaril Co.-.75. United Htaiea Baiiic.— »ec banli of U. S. -hii rtmoval 82-Mornlnf Van Ness, Cornellu* P.- News on 86. Van Ness, Genl. John P.— 83. Van Ness, Judge W. W., case of— II 87 Vanderpool, Judge Aaron.— 109. ' ^"r 5"""> /"•"> "S-appolnted Attorney General ?„ m /,':^\' profane language and unfilneso tor office 69...hls 18 letters, cursing, tettln?, S"" i'>"*' ■'o<:'«-Jo''blng, speculating with Hoyt, «c. m lo 64— avoids a correspondence with bro- Kers 60-lost a fortune by the removal of the de- posiles—61, 68— enterprise with Culling 63, 68--- cause of Webb's arrest 68-on gd terms with hwartwout 85-a land jobber ia2-row at Hudson Van Buren, Martin.- l.'i, 16-eulogy on Clinton 24 - was to reniove to N. Y. 26 27-chartor» W. and w. Bank, &c. 31 -appoints Hoyt Coll'r Cusfs N. jr. and endorses for him 3o -looks very sharp after money 36 -approve.') Noah's course 39 -for a cau- cus and sure of Crawford's election 40— account of victory, Nov. 1828, bets and Noah 42-Noah'8 characters of 43, 44-letter8 and nominations in 1H2S -saves Marcy from ruin 45-characteristic corresp. with Hoyt about office 51 to 66-hlre8 a ■ealet de chambre Sl-has Jackson's confidence M-pitiM the poor Whigs 57-unprincipled 59- wishes his friends to electioneer when seeking the presidency 63-oplnions on banks 65, 98, 99-on appointments 72, 73-'s friend Spicer 75-and Swartwout 85-Cliarleston Mercury on 87-direc- tor-gen 1 of the Argus 89-his relatives, lA.-puffs Jackson 90-atrection for and hatred to, by J G Bennett 91 to 96-correspondence 94, 95-beg3 for a wing of the monster' 98-omces 103-sub-treas. 106-trusts in Providence 119-on foreigners 119- gets charter for Buffalo Bank 122-i8 rich 123- anti-renters and 123, 124-puffs Throop 130-pro- Con" ^"fls ™ ^^ 132-wamed of Hoyt by Van Buren, a/ioa bucktail, alias regency, alias re- publican, a/iau hunkers, alias • regular' democrats. «aa* spoils party.-their secret objects and policy laid bare.-See the index and vol. generally. W. Wagers on elections.— Sec hets ^o'Tsee li^eT-lloS:' '"'"^"'"*'"' "' '•"■ P*' '»"''• War.-.-opinions on 34, H6-and war taxes 152. Washington and Warren Bank.-Some account of It, 106 144 " " obtained 30, 3l-flutler orj Wnssin, George A.-his Custom House roguery 130. Wa ers Tallman J.-Hoyt's cashier 130, to*'l33r Webb (,ol J. w.-nrrcHied in England 68-Bennett on {.'our. & EiKi. en '^'^ «" » common footing in the eye of the law, Satfvplv mL ,^''" ''""""''' '"'*""/ ^^ *'"""'"'"» "'°™ equally diffused, are noor l?hLH i """"^ concentrated in a few hands, while the condition of the pooHaborer has changed for the worse. TA,. „ the workmg of a lu,g,ous conslt- thiIs°t«^?*'Tl'' J?*l?® "Oo^ ^''^^^ ''°""« '"" «"« "^ ^'^at P«wer and dignity in this btate. The station of Senator, with a voice in the court of last resort, enables ftrthrrZnM/^f^'T \v'^«S.i"fl"ence for good or evil. Yet I need gone n«fil ? i ^T' ^'■''"^*' '" ^'^^ '" '*'^ '^"^«'»*' f«' evidence that substantial m?ni-fJL w , *^"^**'°"''" '"^"y ^^e"' ""'ler the present system, as ad- ^b«n tl A ^'^^"g>'^'n w'^ severely punished for^ meddling with private matters B^onlfJI '*°?>'°'i'r' the bribery of Lord Verulam_bt- he was right- »t nnn,o • r^'t"?"!! ^Tust that I shall be found fully able to meet all attempts When in ^1 ,«Jo''Ik*'^t.*^''''^'''P^™'^*« '" ^^e ensuing chapters may subject me. Arm-s' ^.? ^jM^®'. ^'t I^emocratic Review, bax:ked as it was by the Gfobe and Argus, declared that «' the boasted ' independence of the judiciary ' is soon found w be mere mdependence of common sense and common justice," I doubted. It Mocednr«'!!f/*TT°""u-^"ir''^^ 'i^.^^^'® P^»^«' ^^^^ ' he private opinion and S?. J L O^SdHvalT' "* ' ""^ ^™'" *^® P"^''° admissions of tbrt.I!fnlT must not be nice about details when its existence or its liberties „re W wJ' ''Whether from within or without. The public safety is the supreme t^H^«,ifv!. fi? " ^ "'^" who can turn from a perusal of the facts I have submit- f^lThl J, ^'"^ convinced that there is a mercenary faction in our midst, bound together by powerful ties, strong and united, sordid and selfish in every thing- acting irt concert and for a common purpose, the destruction of that manly inde- penaence ot thought and action which is the glory of our age and country ? Listen flTA*T^^\^ ^^^ ^'''^ himself speaks in these pages. Where is one of them ifflf.*- ^^u- u \^^'™ aspiration of generous sympathy for the sufferings and afflictions which chequers life to the whole family of inan / ;„., """i ^an Buren has been named in some of our most wide spread public journals as a probable candidate at no very distant day for the Presidency. Look «1 „!!!1" ^^"^^y ^*~^" *he mirror himself has polished. His father is making no common exertions to attain a second time to the chair of Jackson. Observe «f,„i, • V"P ■ ^^ *''*'"'^' ^"«* 8*y if he deserves it ? Mr. Butler has an office of whoii" f ^"''•^ '" ^}l administration of justice. Hear him, that ye may determine r^ ?o ? '1 ^^^ ^''l^^ ■ ^^- Hoyt'8 political annals are less important on his own account, than as showing the means whereby his artful employers got and *eRt for years the reins of state in this Union. t j n «5*r.» T,.*^*,H*T°f *^^^'*he most important and influential offices in this f-^» «l'^ withheld from the nomination and appointment of the millions. Draw ^l^A I *"^'i^l"' ^ \ have done, and behold how that patronage has been exer- otli^ **»• *^^^^pted agents. I trust that the Convention will aid the constituen- nn!fni? ^ f/- ""^ °^ *, Regency at Albany, and all its branches in the several Ti,;lu% 1 f *5?® *^® Empire State were rid of the Coddington tribe, who, thJl .f */?etty like, are ready to break up any government the hour it is formed, mat hesitates to retain a legion of bribed and pensioned partisans. I If Mr. Rri says, and \t' '. in It not ;in a descriti'il by time arrivii ii thoir ijiii'titM wealth, and I of the (Tohvv clans, tend tii of deceptive I is raised to w Has not trc volume and d Treason, it and con8|)ira(' by paprrs. 'I tnakes it neee that tiie drea( session of, an the conspiratc t rated. When, at a cnce, treason erl'iil enemy, certain papers had conspired the letters of dential, were fared no betti Senate, wliicl a moment in ji violation of t conspiiaey .-i for the trenera houn and Gen Calhoun, accn days lonij jjon dissension sou might be bene of which he w Mr. Crawford' tamperinii- an( pressed, whol lenH'hcn his si Mr. Cambre readily inlerrei dressed to his May lUth, 183 " Deah H I have deliberate BU' Judire to favor returned — it m IT. IT'S A : present statemi he found my st it over himself. Don't mentic will come up of June. Fn.vit, r-niTORs — private papers— conspiracies. If Mr. RrmKH ..I th,- H.-rald circilatos nearly 50,000 newspapers weekly, as ho says, and il Mr. .\,.:ih n |.n'.s,s wmtmuoH to receive .some share of public minnort. IS It not an a.lvanlaire to society to ol.tain in thi« volnn.e, their characters correcllv deserih..lbylhe,n.selve.sl '['hey are the representatives of a eia.s«. HhoiiMtlio line arrive in which the ntatCMinan, hiwyer, an.l e.litor w.H he ready to hire out their alenis and inlluenee lo the hijrhrst bidder, will not the elllTls of concenlrated wealth an.l lucrative olhces in the KiCt of partisan leach-rs, applied to the easy virtue o the (.ro.vv..lls and the Kla.r., the Noahs and the Henneits, with others of their claMs, tend to mislead many, and en.lanprer the public welfare < Are not a band of deceptive hireliiiif •'ditors like a U'dge. of sunken rocks, on which, if no beacon 13 raused to warn the mariner, ihc most (jallant ship may be wrecked • Has not treason b.u'n connnitte.l against the state! The public will read thia volume and deliver it.s imi)artial awnrd. Treason, in the t-eneral nature of it, must bo the crime of many. It implies plots and conspiracies, which are carry! ntf on by correspondence, and arc to be discovered bypnprrs. 1 he salety ol the state, which is superior to every other consuleration, lakes It necessary to use all possible means to unmask the machinations of treason that the dread 111 ellects may be prevented. Far'rs, therefore, mav bo taken ..os- session ot, and letters intercepted, as warlike stores are secured, that the dcsij-ns of the^conspirators may be made known to those whom they would betray, and Irus- When, at a time of much doubt and difficulty, during the struggle for indepcnd- once, treason was ready to deliver the important fortress of West Point to a now- erlul cn.-u.y. tor money, its designs were opportunely defeated, by the seizure of certain papers in a distinguished .liu-er's boot. When Messrs. Hishop and Kemble had conspired with others to betray their country, and nullify public justice for gain, the letters ot these senators and their a.ssooiales. even the most private and confil dential, were published to the world, as a warning to others. General Jasper Ward hired no better U hen a treaty was under consideration in the United States' Senate. Wi.ich Mr. J appan believed to be injurious to his country, he hesitated not a moment in publishing its most secret conditions, fearless of the consequences of a 'oiu" J "^,:"i^«-'*'"J in the case of Jacob Harker, and others, indicted for vonspiKuy .1 H.f)-/, private letters and agreements were produced, unhesitatin.-lv. .or the general good. I quote high authority when I mention the case of Mr. Call houn and General Jackson, in which, after a visit to Mr. Crawford, by a rival of (.alhoun. accompanied by Mr. Cambreleng, the secrets oi Mr. Monroe's cabinet, in . ajs long gone by, were laid bare, by Mr. Crawford, private letters expo.^ed, and di.scns.on sown broad-cast betvveen long tried fricnds-not that the public sen-ice Tub, f h"""'';- ''n^ '*' ?.?'•'" '"' "'"''it'ous aspiianito seize the helm of sta.e, ot which he was ot all candidates the most unfit and unworthy. Very ditferent wa^ •nmn^'r i'r"'''''''''"?"7' "" '^7 <-0"?ress for official papers, to show the .amperng and bargaining with ifw S's views of the sanctity of confidential correspondence, may be drS'fl^h'^ f "i the content^ of the following letter, marked " private." ad- May lit h" fj32 ' '' ^^'' ^* ^'""^ ^""'^^ '■'''™ Washington, and dated Z'^Jnl t / V \ PICKLE, and will expose some small contradictions of his present statements-and show some little duplicity. The Judge can tell him that It ovrhiSr'""'"' °*"'^' ^"'^ '"^^'"'^ '"'^ '°" •""'j*^''^^^' ^"'^ '^■''' h« ™« v.m°n} "'^"t'°." a^out the letter to Clayton-Ac unll frohahh/ pubh.^h it. The Rank of June "^ '" "" ^"""^^^ "'-^* '''''^'^-" won't disturb us before the middle Sincerely yours, 2 C, C. CAMBRELENG." 10 customs' duties HOYt's LETTEKS THE A11GU8. RIGH I quote the two last cases, and that which next follows — not approvingly — but as evidence of the senf-o in whiei- parties of wliom this volume has much to say, view ;he publication of ci'iifidontial papers. Mr. Wood, an importer in IJew York, paid (I tliink to Mr. Swartwout) duties on largre invoices of woollens, which, on a careful examination, the appraisers for the U. S. declared to be fairly valued. A Mr. George R. Ives, of Brooklyn, was the confidential correspondent of Wood's father, wno failed in England, and his prop- erty went to assignees, to whom this Mr. Ives was the agent and attorney. " Lender ll.e spcious pretext," .say the Commissioners for the U. S., *' of bein^ called on hy Mr Hoyt, for the correspondence, he delivereJ them up, and testified to them in court, books, private letters, a:id invoices," and was thereby enabled to hold on to$ 12,000 of the elder Wood's money, his (Ives's) evidence alone having induced tiie jury to give a $ 13,000 verdict ag:?inst the son for a violation of the revenue laws. The Commissioners add, that " the manner in which the disclosures were made by Ivp«, and his subsequent testimor,y in court, liear strong marks of collusion betvvf ;n hiin and the collector, founded or. the mutual hope of pecuniary gain." This is the Ives wliose invoices were entered below value, w.iose fraudu- lent entries produced no seizure, whose checks on lime, before his iaiiure, were taken by Hoyt as cash for duties, who hind assistant cashiers, and of whom Mr. Taylor swore that he had tohi him of a), offer made him of $2,000, to act as a spy on the merchants. Mr. Hoyt thinks it fair to go thus far at leiist, to put down fraud in another's case, but when his own papers are taken by the Comrnissioners for a like purpose, he speedily changes his mind. Mr. Hoyt left in the Custom House fifteen volumes of letters, which were de- livered to the U. S. Com'rs, by Mr, Curtis. "This correspondence discloses numerous valuable facts in relation to the mal-practiccs and defalcations of Mr. Hoyt," said Governor Poindexter. Mr. Hoyt prepared to quash inquiry, and obtain the letters by a writ of replevin, and might have destroyed them at little cost had they not been wisely scut olf to Washington. Had they been private letters they had nc business in the Custom House— an'<. when -. Collector leaves a public office, and (like a bad lodger who leaves his wallet, uecamps between two days, carrying off the family plate, and forgetting to pay his board bill,) slipping a fevv hundred thousand dollars in bank notes, into his vali..;, scatters the fif- teen volumes c." correspondence of his confederates, among its official records, justice to outraged society seems to require that the means of exposure thus be- queathed should be used as, perhaps, he intended they «b'juld be — to balance his accounts. A lazy fellow would sweep them into the street — one more active would copy, an J publish them. They had no business there. I think the Argus, at Albany, has always acted on a very lax code of morals about papers. I could give a hundred cases where it has published private letters that, Glentworth like, had got into its power. I remember, for instance, a very confidential one, from Mr. Ue Witt Bloodgood, to his friend in Illinois, that was published as containing a plot. Mr. Croswell will find in the Memoirs of his friends Hoyt and Butler, a supply of plots, sufficient for years to come. His friend Gov- ernor Throop professed to admire "the blessed spirit of anti-masonry," founded as it was on that innate love of justice to all which animates every faithful breast, and which had been outraged by the secret destruction of a citizen^ who had published certain private papers, which lew would have ever heard of, had not the bu'lies and rowdies of his day, urged or. by short-sighted fools, in the back ground, enrolleJ his name among the martyrs of the west, and awarded him a place in his country's annals. It will oe found by Mr. C, that I have not entirely forgotten Governor Throop. Papers are the depositories of our fortune — the trustees of our credit, character, and reputation — our closest confidents. Secrets that n.ay cost a man his life, or which niLU would rather die than have discovered, secrets of trade, viiis, setlle- inents, things on which the peace of famiUes, and the love and union of relatives may depend, are often to be found among a person's private papers, t7i his closet — ami all attempts to invade the sanctity of a private dwelling, on any other ground than treason against the state, or even then unless on information on oath, and in a legal way, to search for, seize, or pry into any man's confidential records, cannot be too severely condemned. The Rev. Mr. O'Coig'ey was sentenced and executed on the oath treasonable i the scaffold, never seen, reward. Pr examined, tors, and Dis from mine ; The writer, invades no refers to pan before him, i of the AmerJ In many c are taken. ] the work, ar before me. inencss of ar produce the - course whem called for by the United Si I may here ges of quoted The views ceeding chapt to believe the though he ass be known to private papers concordance v is said to hav( so high that t they real or fi( The conventic Men estimc Van Ness, the entry of the | seen such an e I would have ' not. So, in li New York in much of the p the political a Globe of Augu pendence of co 'state's evider SNu- spoke by once filled by from RUIN. The compile the maUirials f( tage from its p sibility therewi ever been inim and rapine, pre for example, u cherished as thi villages, town.s, under the bann other apparatus RIGHT OF SEARCH— LAWS NEVER WRITTEN— JUDGE VAN NESS. 11 on the oath of a police officer, who swore he found a printed proclamation of a hP scJIfr n "^""?T '" ^'^ ^''''' .^°^' P"^"^^*' ^ P^°elamation, which o"cW ey on never eei' '"tI olT '" ^'T''' ^'^"'' '^'^ ^°''' ^^"^'^ '>^^^^" ^° ^•i'"««« ^e^haS rZnJ V f ^^•^' '^ '" supposed, put it in his pocket, for the offered l2^Li "K^r^frt'^^^^^^ '""^ ^' «^'/.rf to,'those seized or fnrt i n- ^^'Yf of t^lentworth shows that Mayors, Recorders, Judges, Sena- tors, and District Attorneys, have defended and acfed on very diflLrent^pr inches The wrS wh let: '""i'' ''^"'r'^" "^"1'°'" ^'"^^'"'"-'^ ^^ especially tS invuln« n .' ^ condemns their procedure, invites them to examine his. He re'-ers ?o n.JT'^"'-^ "" conii.lence-circulates no secret record-hut before Z^n ,1, fT''=^'l '^e most happy to aid in such a call d f^r hTrr ''"''"''' ""r'^'^V- ^"'"'' °^ ^'^'^ clocumenK-ill, no doubt be tt'tued Stores wr " "^^'"''^"^^ °* ''• ^ -"''''' '"'^y «-^ ^'-^"^ -^y ^« ires Sm.ot'o 1 ''"'"' "'"' *^° ''"'"' ^"^^ CAPITALS used to mark particular passa- ges of quoted papers arc, in most cases, not so marked in the originals. ceedinVSer^'l^H '' ^1- "''"'""" ""^'^ P°''''"=^' opinions are adverted to in suc- ceeding cliapters, with relerence to that part of our adoplcd laws, wliich, if we are be k^own toX'L"n 'M! "'"''■ 'T '"^"™ «' P""*''''' ^"'1 therefore could no private nanprs^'^rPu!'' P'""''^'. ^'^^''^ ^"'^ ^'^ " °" '^"^ "g^t of s.arcA for foncordanoP wi,wT ""'f ''"°T '" ' "' community, as also (heir practice in strict IS Said to hnv^ ? th^f ""^"'"''J^ '«'«^. that I need only allude to them here. Nero fo Idl ?h f thpv"' 1 ,^^'.^::?"l^t.ons to be written in small characters, and posted thevfea orVo^f/ """^ difficulty be read. Mr. Morris's borrowed rules, be Sconvpn.in yf'iT "^""'^^ '^^" '^"^ ^^^''''^' f«' y°" ^=1" fi"d them nowhere ! Men S^^p"^^ i^ ^ ''.?'' J?'*'^^''": f '^"^^ of genuine " home manufacture." Va^Ness t^ Banf'nf"A^ "•''' °?J'^^ti°"« »» ^o-^^cty. In the case of Judge emTvo?L%S^nL^^ T-^^ the minute book that had the see7sSch an !ntrv S« i ^'^'T^' ^ad I been their most confidential servant, and T xvnnH V,r ^ "''•'^ ''^^^ P'°^"^ •'' '"'"'^ter of justice unworthy of his seat, I would have very soon made my country aware of it, whether it suited the bank o^ New&in nnnJ^T*'';,'''' ^ ''"""""''^ the conduct of the Bank of the State of mu^hof thp. Kr ''"^''^'^ ^'"""""t current of a man proved to have embezzled much of the public money, more especially when it is seen that its president was rLfnf r^ '"? rToT} ^r^"'' ""^ '''^ ''^^^"It^^- Mr. Blair told us^ hrough h s Gohe ot August 14, 1839, that the " independence of the judiciary " is " an inde- W^ p'rn r""™"" ''"'" ""^ ''"'""^°" J"«t'^^ "-=^"^ ^-hen such men as him Turn PNi nokP.w'n.\V'/'"°.' *™''" ^''^^'" considering of new safeguards? Mr onee filled bXlp^V^ t ' ^'''T'' ''^'^ ^^^ P'^^*^^ ^ P"!"'^^^! ^"ol «" the seat from RUIN ^ ^ ""^ '"' '" ^''° '"P"'""'' ^°"t, to preserve him, as he said, tl, Jmn '^'^I^P'f ""^ *1"^ ''°'""'5 "l^^P'y '^^'■^t^ that there are in this lovely country • 'e fr;:m i , Z r"'/' ^ '^''^ "^. A"'"^" <""'y- C^e derives no pecuniary advan^ libilitv tHnv^iS ""'."^r V^?"''^ ^' the last man in America to shun the\espo„- eve ie^ n m£iMo"?f '''-^ Ignorance, prejudice and extreme destitution, have aiXaninP rplpnV/. preservation ot freedom and peace. Ages of bloodshed f. r eSmolV .?nlpl ""i' i'"""^ '" ^Iie. history of the past, will prove unavailing cleds^^LTas'thP fivl°'J^'''"'° ^«T'^""y'''"" ^'^ thoroughly educated, sinceritf V h?Ps tnwnl n . '''"■'■""' ''"^ that violence of party spirit which divides our unilfthlZ' ""f""" ^"'' "n""'^' '"'° two oppoMug armies, as it weie, ranged otheTani)arr,r'f "/ ^^'T'" ''"'^!' "^''^^ ^^ ^''''''^ orators,' electioneer^rs, and other apparatus of dissimulation and sordid selfishness, annihilated. Much can be 12 SYBNEY — BURDETT — MILITARY RULE — THE CONVENTION. achieved, if the people will value nrifi-ht ihe ineslimahle advantage they enjoy, in the freedom with wliicli a state convention may be elected and held in the inidst of peace and tranquility at home and abroad. Un|)ublisbc'(l writings, in evil times, have sent good men to the scaffold — but the precedents of wicked judges are as beacons to warn their more faithful successors. The noi)le Algernon Sydney's blood w.is shed in the profligate days of the second Charles, after u luockery of atrial before Judge Jeffries. Conspiracy tbere was none. On the searcb, at niidnigbt, in the martyr's closet, an unpublished manuscript was found— a leaf or two of its contents read in court — and the noble author condemned. Posterity has done all the parties justice. England is a great and powerfid country — yet it is but little more than 25 years since Sir Francis Burdctt was tried, condemned, and immured in a prison ; though a member of parliament, a man of ancient family, and possessed of an annual in- come of $250,000 a year — because lie had dared to call cruelty and oppression by their right names, in the land of Hampden and Sydney. " It seems," said Sir Francis, alluding to the" massacre in 1819 at Manchester, that " our fathers were not such fools as some would make us believe, in o[)posing the cscablisliincnt of a standing army, and sending King William's Guards out of tlie country. Yet would to heaven they had been Dutclimen, or Switzers, or Hessians, or Hanoverians, or any thing rather than Englishmen, who have done such deeds I — What I kill men unarmed ! unresisting ! and, gracious God ! women too, disfigured, maimed, cut down and trampled upon by dragoons. Is this J'',ng- land 1 This a Christian land ! A land of freedom ! Will the genthmien of Eng- land support, or wink, at such proceedings? they have a great stake in the'ir country. They hold great estates, and they are bound in duty, and in honor, to con.siderthem as retaining fees on the part of their country, for upholding its rights and liberties." With such men as this volume drp.gs to the light of day, high in office, controlling the administration of the laws, t'le executive, and in a great degree commerce, and all upon purely selfish, mercenary principles, America would gradually slide down from her elevated situation among the nations. Revenge would fUl'some men's minds, despair would take possession of others. Some would take the course ascribed by Morris to Robinson with his creditor Suydam the banker— others would war on property, by increasing the number of those terrible fires which have deso- lated of late not a few of the fairest cities of America — the evil example of men above would demoralize thousands below them, and that confidence in. and depend- ence of man on man, which is the cement that binds society, would cease. A numerous standing army would come next — less to war on our weak frontier neigh- bors, than as a police to repeal at convenient seasons the scenes enacted at Man- chester in 181!). It is from such a stale of things that the people seek deliverance. Tlie Democratic Review (falsely so called,) told us, in April 1843, that the "virtue and intelligence of the people is all a humbug," and that " we must procure stronger guarantees than popular suffrage, and popular virtue and intelligence." In other words, we were informed that we must shift round to monarchy, or get a House of Peers, self-government being an idle tale. I very much fear, that if the men whom this volume too truly describes, can get the ujiper hand in the state convention, their united endeavor will be to get us AS LITIGIOUS A CONSTITIJTIOx^f AS POSSIBLE, as that would best ensure a continuance of those hurtful monoptdies and lucrative jobs which follow in the train of all such great convulsions and revolutions in currency, commerce, property, &c., as have of late years marred the prosperity of our country. If in the minority, I think their etlbrts will be directed towards embarrassing the capable and well disposed — and should my publication be found to have the effect of preventing the return of some of the worst of them, and arousing inquiry into their conduct, my exertions will be amplv repaid. That a patriot band— such as assembled in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, seventy years ago — may gladden the hearts of our true hearted citizens, when our state convention meets ; and that the wisdom of their deliberations may afford un- questionable evidence of the onward progress of intellectual and moral truth in our laud, and of the capacity of man for self-government, and the sustenance of free institutions, is the fervent prayer of the compiler. New York, Sept> 1, 1845. Mr. Butler's i Mr. Van Bi /aw with the a Bank. Benjamin F N. Y., on th( received by hii law office at L reside till his Lieut. Allen, ( His father, : served an appr at " the Land years. When the i French court, " D'aucune, JVl true nobility of Review, the p tector — to one Butler, who lai doubtful pcdig inscribed " Ad of Levi exhibit( under his am Levis." Thus Mr. Butler w and immediate his law busines the Democratic Van Buren to t In June, 1811 security of 22 a mortgage and 1 State another i The share of 1; early in 1819 Cashier, and (J W^arren, at Sar and Attorney i same place. Jesse Hoyt, 1 in life began b could not arrai Seculiar sort of lurcn as his sti license to practi When Mr. ai the Attorney G and Mechanics' both, make kno financial profes: and cannot fail i BUTLER S ANCESTRY — JESSE HOYT, 13 • ')■-■ CHAPTER II. Mr Butler's birth and parentage— Ms admission to the Bar, and partnership with Mr. ^(jnBurm. Mr HoyVs early pursuits— he abandons commerce, and studies a Bank "''^ ^^""■''' "^' ^'"^ ^''"'''- ^^''- ^'"^'''' "'''^/''^ ^''^ presidency of Benjamin Franklin Butler was born at Kinderhook Landing, Columbia County ^. \., on the 14tli ot December, 1T(J5. He was educated there, and in 1811 received by Ins iather s personal and political friend, Martin Van Buren, into his law office at Hudsoii^ as a student, and into his family, in which i,e continued to reside til his (Mr. Butler s^l marriage, in 1818, to Miss Harriet Allen, a sister of Lieut. Allen, of the U. S. ]\avy. His latlier, Medad Butler, who is still alive, was born in Connecticut, where he served an apprenticeship to a scythe-maker. He aiterwards kept store and tavern at the Landing, in which business his sou Benjamin assisted him in his earlier years. When the uncle of Horace Walpolc, Earl of Orford, was Ambassador at the irrench court the Queen asked his lady what family she was of. Her reply was • D aucune, Madame." She was a French stay-maker's daughter. It requires true nobihty of soul to be of the aucune family. In a memoir in the Democratic Review, the pedigree of the Butlers is traced to Oliver Cromwell, the lord pro- tector-to one of the judges whose iiat beheaded King Charles— and to Jonathan Butler, who landed in Connecticut in 1710. Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, ridiculed doubtful pedigrees by placing two old heads among the portraits of his ancestors, inscribed ^ Adam rfc Stanhope" and " Ere de Stanhope." A family of the name of Levi exhibited a picture in which Noah appears walking into the Ark, carrying under his arm a small trunk, on which is written " Papiers de la maison de Levis. ihus much for genealogy. Mr. Butler was admitted to the bar as an attorney in the State courts in 1817 and immediately entered into partnership with his "instructor, Mr. Van Buren, in his law business. The latter was at that time a Senator of New York, and (says the Democratic Re^view) " the connection subsisted till the appointment of Mr. Van Buren to the Senate of the United States, in December, 1621 " In June, 1818, Mr. Butler borrowed $550 from the State of New York on the security of 22 acres of land at Kinderhook Landing, and gave his father-s bond and mortgage and his own bond as a security. In 1810 his father had borrowed of the btate another $ 1000, which, with the interest, remained unpaid as late as 1824 Ihe share of law profits which he realized in 1818 fell short of his wishes, and early in 1819 he united the professions of lawyer and banker— as President, Cashier, and (I may add) Board of Directors of the Bank of Washington and Warren, at bandy Hill, a village on the Hudson, about 55 miles north of Albany and Attorney at Law, Solicitor in Chancery, and Attorney for the said Bank, at same place. ' ■ -".esse Hoyt, the friend of Benjamin Butler, is a native of Connecticut, and early in lite began business on his o^vn account as a store-keeper in Albany— failed— could not arrange his affairs so as to recommence— discovered that he had the peculiar sort of talent for a successful lawyer— indentured himself ^vith Mr Van Buren as his student— and in due time took the benefit of the insolvent laws, and a hcense to practise in the State courts. When Mr. and Mrs. Butler removed to Sandy Hill, Mr. Hoyt was a student in the Attorney General "s office and had previously served as a clerk in the Farmers and Mechanics Bank. Mr. B.'s letters to his friend will show the prospects of both, make known the fervent piety of the former, the condition of the legal and financial professions in Washington county, exhibit new views of State politics and cannot fail to be read with interest. 14 butler's love for the gospel. and W., to Jesse Hoyt, Student at Law, CHAPTER III. Interesting Correspondence. Mr. Butler's piety, politico, and kind feelings toivard Mr. Huyt. A proposal to huy the Buffalo Bank— Mr. HoyVs fitness for the office of a Cashier— Ins general character. A run on the Washington and Warren Bank — Ways and Means — Bu/ler vs. Olcott. President Butler, of the Bank of W. Albany. ^ Sandy Hill, March 27th, 1819. Dear I'riend, ***** You have really a fine state of political confusion at Albany. I thuik the situaiiun of the Governor [De Witt Clinton] is daily becoming more desperate. . I am more and more pleased with my duties. They require industry and atten- tion, but they pive me more leisure than I had while in Albany, and furnish me more easily with sufficient to provide for my household. The only difficulty lure is THE WANT" OF the stated PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL. Had we a faithful and respectable tninister, and were the people more anxious for and rttentive to religion, I should have nothing to ask for, but the continu- ance of health to take this place delightful. The contrast between Albany and Sandy Hill in this parli lar is great. You do not at all estimate as you ought, the pecu- liar privileges you enjoy. They are remarkably great * * * * The Gospel is either a " savour of life unto life," or of" death unto death." And how can those " escape who neglect so great salvation V What a bungling piece of work Mr. Loomis lias made in printing my speech. It has mortified me excessively to see so many stupid blunders issued to the world ivith my name prefixed. Pray tell my friends that I lay no claims to the bantling in its present dress. Yours truly, BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. which I think ; great deal in d( order — not of send by some j: Upon luhat g he has done it. What think Or have you nc your neck? How does th inent suits? A) wished after n and engage aga accustomed to tt public, private t but myself. M and I can attenc ejectments of t here, if I was d Jesse Hoyt, Est Dear Sir, I send b; as usual. I he; liave said), mad tary being othe: esiing epistle, in The same to the same. Sandy Hill, March 17, 1.819. Dear Friend, The stage to day was looked for with great anxiety by all the members of my household, as we entertained strong hopes the black damsel would make her appearance on the " Hill,"— as the citizens denominate this great metropolis. »#»*#! have been here a fortnight, and have not yet received a line frora you. Pray write me, if it is only to say that you are in esse. Yours truly, BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. The P. S. (in a different hand,) is as follows :— " Mr. Hoyt do try to get Pender, im tired to death of cookins.'^ I am The same to the same. ^ ,, Sandy Hill, May 4, 1819, Dear i riend, # # # # # Ti^g election returns are, so far, unfavorable to th ' .it^es of Mr. Clinton, and his friends, and / presume his destiny is fixed. * * *• ^ * * I voted for Senators, and offered to vote for members of Assembly, but after a long discussion oi' my and various arguments and o^jinions from" lawyers and eleciioneerers, the board very gravely decided that I was not vet naturaliz&l—m Mr. Preside Dear Sir, I have yo endeavor as soor do regret that I ( the Court of Cha * * I have not had a great deal much, and as sc Hitchcock. I he I would send by goes on a raft 1 knocked overboai / am unable to if Mr. B., [mean concern — but has But then he's A pose a claim for i to accept such a j in to take charg dcubie — toil and and Financial w( The Attorney Ct LAW — HOYT AND THE BUFFALO BANK. 15 which I think It probable they were right. The Chancellor has re^Wy assumed a great deal in deciding my cause against me. Please obtain a copy of fhe decretal order-not of his opinion, for I suppose that would take you a week to copy "and send by some person at your convenience. ^^ Upon what ground did he admit you-as of right, or ex gratia? I am glad that he has done it, and hope you may find it the harbinger of good fortune. What think you of the New Insolvent Law 1 Do you intend to proceed under it' yournrck?" " P^''«^^°P^y ^"""g*' ^o li^^ PO°r all your life, wilh a millstone on How does the business get along, and what is the state, generally, of vour eiect- meat suits? Are any of them to be tried at these Circuifs or no^t? I someSmea wished after my removal, that I could take a peep for a moment in the kS ters and engage again in the service of the Sovereign People-«,u/ ,-. long hadlbem accustomed to the management of the Attorney General [M. Van Buren] ^s offar^ pubhe, prwate and domestic, th^t I ofion thought that no\,ne could attend to them nyrZ u L'^'ll ''^°<^<'.t'r'^ however, have now become familiar and pleasant, and I can attend to them without troubling myself about the bonds, mortgages or ejectments of the State. * * * « * Thprp ici l,„t litti» i...., i, " ^ i • hprp ifT ,.,Tc ^„-„„„^„„/ „ .1 . T 1 ,,, ^ "6'^'^ 's Out little law business doing !,„.„ ;4'T J I . -, , ijicio lo uui jiiue law ous: here, if I was dependant on that, I should have had the horrors long aa„. B. F. BUTLER. The same to the same. Washington and Warren Bank, > Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Albany, ^^''^ ^^'''' ^^"^ ''^' ^«^»- $ Dear Sir, I send by Mr. Skinner a package and letter for Mr. Barker, which send as usual I hear that he has had a demonstration (as Packenham, & Co would have said), made upon him this week, which was manfully repelled My S- tary being otherwise engaged, deprives you of the plcasurl oi receiving us iSer- esling epistle, in her " own proper hand writing. " ^ Yours truly, B. F. BUTLER. ■'ires Mr. President Butler to Mr. Jesse Iloyt, Solicitor in Chancery, Albany, Dear Sir, ^^''"^ ^^'^^' *'""« ^^h' 1819. I have yours of the 31st ult., 1st inst., and also one by Mr. Gifford I shall endeavor as soon as possible to send you some papers in these Ciiai^en^ causes I do regret that I did not know that Mr. V. B. 4s about attendi. g 'e J^une term of the Court of Chancery. I might have had all my business in tram for it * S" » * 1 have not been in court but little, either Common Pleas, or Circuit— bavins had a great deal to do in the Bank, and in my Law Business. I wan a clerk vTr? much, and as soon as Charles' ***** T h„„P vm, m.; T„ i .^ Hitchcock. I have now $3000 in currc.u notes, rec^^^^re^H^LS^f ^hi J 1 would send by Col. Pitcher, who conveys this, but he starts from Eel^^n L and KScked" oveta^r /"^i ^1"'^ ^f '^^^'^ ^ '^°-- -" ^girbrrre'd^'^r ,rMrr"fl^"'''^?^f'!f r"',^^°F raE mAGARABANK-<,«/v//,„^ {^-buUias'"^? m V n ^"'^''^- '"'"'^ ^' ''''^ '^ ^'J''^ ''' ''''^d make it a projiabt Km,.! u ^ ^''V/^ .'?r7,''P""°"' "'""s enough in the fire, already, for one man IJu then he's A HOST himself. Jfhe gets the stock, you must staid ready to ^S pose a claim for the management of the busmess-V. J is-if y,,,. w(.uld be w ninir Joublp-^^on td'TronH- " . " ^ ^'T r "^'^ '^''' ^"^ ^^'" S^t 't- " Double, jcaoie To.l and trouble appears to be the order of the day in the Commercial and Pinancial world-where it will land us I am unable to say. * V^TT'^i iae Attorney C.neral [Mr. Van Buren], is never at home-and when he is, I am 1 i, 16 BUTLER WOULD MAKE HOYT A BANKER. BO far from him, that I cannot have that direct and constant communication which the interests ot our chmls demand. One thing I most earnestly desire of you, and that IS to forward me all notices, papers, &c., that may he screed an Mr. V. D. [\an JJuren] as my agent, lie would never think of it himself, and my clients iniL'ht be kicked out of court before I knew it. I shall make no more fomplamta about your bad writins, though your scrawls arc most infamous, after the capers I have cut in this epistle. Yours truly, B. F. BUTLER. [Sent per Mr. Thurman, from Sandy Hill,] T -LT T- A„ June 11, 1819. Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Albany, Dear Sir, MT A o i o r''^.>^A*'^nJ^'^ ^ ''^"^'' ^^""^ ^^^- ^"I^er, inentioninn; the subject of the oluijiL-o ^''^^^- ^"'^ requesting my opinion of a certain friend of mine, for LAblilhH, provided he should conclude to purchase the stock -io which 1 have replied as follows : — " I am happy to hear, by your letter, that in the event of your enjraginT in the Niagara Bank, you have thought of MY FRIEND HOYT, for Cashier. I know oj no person within the circle of my aa/vnintance irhom I could recommend with ecnial confidence for that situation. HIS INTEGRITY, ZEAL, AND INDUSTRY wou/ti I am confident, ensure him your a()probation, and esteem. There can be no doubt of his being amply qualified for the task. His acquaintance whh business is general, and extensive, and for perseverance and activity I know of no one who surpasses him. His experience in Mercantile business, would alone have qualified him for tiie place, but in addition to that he has the advantage of some considerable acquaintance xmth the business of hauling, from his cmploymuit last year in the Me- chanics and Farm/;rs' Bank. I have known him for several years ; intimately, for about three. After the unfortunate termination nf his Mercantile concerns, instead of spending his time in idleness, or gicing way to despair or dissipation, irhich is com- monly the case VI SUCH CIRCUMSTANiJES, he resolved forthwith to enter into employment of some kind or other; and, as nothing offered by which be could do better, he commenced the study of the law. All his friends, (and I amonc^st the rest,) thought this a very Jorlorn hope, for sucli had been his previous active life, and so long was his term oJ study, that I considered it absolutely impossible for him to confine himself to so irksome an employment as a clerkship in a law office, with- out any prospect of a speedy admission either to the practice or the profits of the profession. He was for nearly three years in my office, and for fidelity and atten- tion, perseverance and application, the very best clerk lever met with. I consider him perjectly competent to eiamine (A) into the affairs of the Bank at Buffalo, and give you an accurate and judicious account of every thing that relates to it. It is needless for me to say that I feel a deep interest in his prosperity, and that nothintr£. ; and lor that you will give them current bills. If you can obtain $600 It will answer the purpose, and if small money is not to be had any thinff else will answer. **•*# •' jb*" B. F. BUTLER. President Butler to Mr. Hoyt. -r, c Sandy Hill, June 21st, 1819. Dear Jsir, w J ?^ }^t enclosed (which please read, and after that wafer and send by Wednesday s boat, ) you will learn the situation of affairs here. If Commodore W reported any thing disadvantageous, please correct it. I did not oflfer, as before to Allen, to pay him one bill at a tune ; but on Saturday, offered him a large amount of specie, which he declined waiting for me to count. If you think that you can get the specie for my notes, which will be chiefly Troy, &c., please so inform Mr. Barker. Mr. Bacon is the person who brought the $ 706. Yours truly, B. F. BUTLER. • r i' f (Wednesday morning.) Washington and Warren Bank, Sandy Hill, June 23, 1819. Jacob Barker, Esq., New York. ^^o„ , . , Dear Sir, * # # # # j have redeemed in the whole f/80, during the two days past— all in large bills. I have now on hand, about $300 in small change, $900 in dollars and five francs, and $200 in gold. With this force I can with certainty sustain myself until Saturday morning, and by that time I^ have^no^doubt I shall have a further supply of specie from Mr. I enclose you a copy of Mr. Olcott's letter. This is a new proof of the wavering policy of that Bank, and of the little reliance to be placed on Mr. Olcott's profes- sions or engagements, for he offered of his own accord to me last spring, that I might at any time draw on you at a few days sight, if I chose so to do. * * * 1 ~* ^ ^^^^ *'''^ morning had two small sums of our notes presented—the one for $75— the other for $91— both from Albany; and both enclosed to Mr. Baird, with a request that he would present them immediately, a.nAthat the credit of the Bank was completely down, which um. the cause of their sending them up. I shall pay these, because the money ivill go down by the mail to-day and may quiet the apprehen- sion of some persons who icould othermse send up; but I shall request Mr. B to decline any further commission of the hind; and if anymore such calls appear, 1 SHALL PUT THEM ON THE SAME GROUND WITH THE OTHERS. As the calls this week have assumed the character of a run on the Bank, you will undoubtedly see the necessity of giving me a supply of specie as soon as possible. Yours truly, B. F. BUTLER. P. S.— Since writing the above, Wiswall has shown me his money ; he has now 18 AN ANTI-RENT BANKER AND A VOUNO PATROON. $ 4800. Gilchrist has demanded his bills. / told him I was rmthi to fay in specie but rommencea paying Wiswall, he presenting his bills first. Gilchrist has resolved not to wait, and returns in the stage. B. F. B. The letter fronri Mr. Olcott, referred to above, was dated " Mechanics' and i^armcrs Bank, June 21, 18li)," and informed President Butler, that they had sent for redemption, $5300 of W. and W. bills, by Mr. Gilchrist, to whom they expected that every facility would be given. Mr. Olcott says—" You are proba- bly aware of the determination of the Banks in this city to take no drafts from country banks, on the city of New York. # # # * # Our object is to prevent country banks from placing funda in N. Y. to speculate on their own depreciated paper. 1 hat they do operate in this way, we have good reason to suspect ; other- plfv^rMm n'^ ?}^''^J^'i^^ ^* ^"^ ^'■''^^ '-^ distance from the only spot where they PKHLND 10 llEDEEM, or give specie value, to their bills." CHAPTER IV. Ways and Means continued— How to grtaPvff from a Young Patroon—Mcanin.,<,/,orA although confident of ultimate success, very fairly assured 1 bfp !S\"Mt S:r; '' ^'^'i:' ^'^^^ '*"■ Washington and WarJ^en not'es wou d nelled^to suspend S T' 7''^"'''^ Promising that the bank would not be com- pe ed to suspend, for a short period, the payment of its notes. It was found hovvever, tha a course so unpleasant aud distressing was unnecessary, anS twTtkc tnuVT/'""^ '-'a "' ^'-T^ "^'■^''*"' '"f"'- "''' '■'-'P^'-^' brokers and oZr banks tr ank' nl '"^'rV^' F^',) ^"'^ '^''' ^°° ^^'^hout pressing those that owe ho bank. Jt has continued, and will continue its redemptions, and is abundantly able to pay all Us debts, to the ^UUtermost farthiniry The debts dl to the bank ZTILTZ n'T '"""'^ ''r "°^r" "^^^'-^ andtllTbtsV^pe^A TJ, T ^J^T """T^-'y """^ ^'1=^^ ^^'H ""t ultimately be collected Hov^ then can any one be a loser by the Bank ? v.uucuitu. now nrom,V.'ipnnl'!f l'^*? "'"^^ has not extended to speculators «nrf te^ „^enAs, that pompt accomnodation which, under flourishing circumstances, would probably h.ve been afforded ; and it is also true that it has been engaged, and ]J^tsnol SSwrvstr'^'l '^ rf '^T^^ '" P'^^^""^ °*" thaf de^criJtiS?^ biu U Zf i/ '••^"leml^ered lS M^aT"^ r '"''' "''"-""' '"""'"^ aristocraJes. Those too who fate poisoned the chaire,^ hare no reason to complain, if with retributive justice it luS ^^'' ""'■ '''"' '^' """J "^'^ '"^P'"'^ '" "^''^ « PortCofUs President Butler to Mr. Hoyt. n^ IT . „ Sandy Hill, July 3d, 1819—11 A. M ment S.":7^ f'?"' on well. Caleb arrived last night with the reinforce- ment Your "extract" ivas well timed. I w sh you would keep the Albanv S'ufher'f • ^'Vf""' ""'' '"T'^^'^^P '' ^^^ °- '^•"^ toStfer and pos^ vnm it ' ^A^ ^^- •l^y«„«r"^' th^" th^y ^^'""Id otherwise come. At\he In raEVT)°^l^T.Vp^%^l^°^^t?:teei^^ 'V"" BEST. PLACE Jom Mr. 01co«r^: as'W^i^n^ "^^e^t^::^ L^^f!^, '^S ^^^ ""'" "• Yours truly, ^ •' B. F. BUTLER. 80 THE BANKER HOLDS UP ! — I,AW TERKOKS. (Sent per Mr. Hand. J D , , „ Sandv Hill, July 7, 1810, Private and Secret. To Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Alhiiny. 1 tr . " Hoyt,— I liavt- paid since the Run commenced $90fl(i M/'in"t'^^^Tr^X°" '^""^ ^"^ '""'''' ^ *"^'^ ^'"^^"- I HAVE A GREAT DEAL MUKl!. JNUW, anrf am m ecery respect better off. The reinforcement from Jacob nn^^ cf r"l^ T"\T"A«r''iT?f/;. .V^i''^ &'^ ''^'/ ''''"'""V ^^^^^•' IT ARRIVED, ?^? ^^"/o^^ ^9.^^?r9P ^^- The public have been paid over SfiOOO^thc Brokers $3000. OUGHT NOT THE PUBLIC TO WaIt A WHILE? We iiave l^XiUW I'A) full enough for the present, therefore had better vrtte no more for the papers. I sl,all add a note to " Equal Rights," which will sail the Mechanics and Farmers' Bank to the (/uick. Finished last Saturday night by trying tJ.e replevin, at Glen's FalKs— got home 10 clock, bunday mornmg. Jury equally divided, 6 and D—Sherilf in our favor. ^kmner and me both summed up ; suited myself and everybody else. Noticed anewlor luesday, 13— clear case ; shall certainly succeed— want the lease from Van Kensselaer to Caldwell, as they gave parol evidence of it. Send it up in time, Paid Saturday, the 3d, 901 \\ °" Monday, 379 ,/,„y /, ^/j,, jj^^^. ^.^ ^^^^ Tuesday, 817 Yours truly, B. F. BUTLER. from $ 700 t^ EJ{ calls. I yesterda obtained the time for the o'clock — Jur; bank hours, i —up till 2, / CLINTO^ no time for m Capt. Cofli Ihe account < during my ag (Sent by Jil When it be of the broken ren Bank, M taken out licet , „ T. Sandy Hjll, July 10th, 1819. Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Dear Sik,— My present business is chancery. The enclosed bill 1 drew m great haste last night and this morning. I want it presented on Monday, and the motion made and urged on the ground of the great injury to the Bank if those notes should be put in circulation. Whether Barker's assignment to this Hank IS good or not, we are entitled to the injunction. Whether the bills are his or ours, the l-armers' Bank have no right to use them ; and if they do, we suffer as wei as J. ij. [Jacob Barker.] I want the bill copied, and a copy sent to Mr. Barker^or Mr. Wells' examination. If you get the injunction, show it first to the State Bank, and tell they follow next— then serve it on Farmers' Bank— then show to Lansingburgh, and tell them they shall have the same, and had better keep the bills. That is, if you think it best to mtorm the others before I have made out bills against them. The M— business I have neglected, and never can attend to it. Serve the petition— give the notice— fill up the proper day— make the motion. You and the Attorney General [Mr. V. Buren,] draw the interrogatories and examine the wit- nesses. / cannot, and must rely wholly on you. mxTi^T,^?^*^ *^ ^*^®' ^^^ ^ '"®'^" to keep it so. I WILL RATHER SUFFER ?n?T^iI^?"^ ™ ^^^'J ^ ^ITTL^, than hazard the safety of T^im¥n. TUTIONby paymg out TOO FAST. I have paid this week $2500— $600 ot which was Walker. * w u. Yours truly, B. F. BUTLER. ^' 1^ jT^l^'^'?"^/^'^'® ""^'^ ^'■'^ payable here, I would take Washington and War- ren gladly, but by his own act he has made it payable in Albany. Now let him pay what ^.^ey will take, except I will take it in i Plattsburg and A current— i Burlington, i current. If he has our notes let him present them. If not paid, write Baird that it must be done forthwith, or he will be SUED— Baird will make him pay it. To Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Ill State street, Albany. Dear Sir, ^^'^■'^ «'^^' ^"^y ''' '^'^- Send the enclosed by the boat tomorrow— all goes well. The Chancellor's decision, m my opmion is disgraceful, partial, unjustifiable— (inter nos.) I pay To Jesse Hoy [Lorenzo Hoy this morning 1 IN A SLOW ance — and in laboring as I 1 the most labor reflection, thai been almost ri PARTIALLY event of stopp that I have doi of my employe Messrs. Butler Exchange B> Tlie truth toi Mr. Butler' posts he has c ii moralist, ant developed in tli found ignoranc arrogant monie exclusive, banl and which was penees and othi its paper, for v, Bank is able to will continue il uttermost farthi 1819. PAYING IN A SLOW WAY— PEOPLE SAVED FROM RUIN. 21 -chiefly in Bpecie—aaiisfi/ing all FAIR AND PROP- trom $ 700 to $ 1000 daily- EK ca//3. nJiJlTlf''^- *"^'^- ^^° "';l'!'^'" °^" =»'''"' ''"d »f'«r a pro.liginus hard conflict obtained he inquisition, this secures the estate. The lease did not amve in time fur the trial, as 1 had it at Lake George. Got through sulS up It U clock-Jury out till a ter 1, A. M.-tough business I can assure \fter -t^Ti'TV"y' """ Tl'"^' •." r'*^ George-.12 mile.-7riS he auL' f flNTnM' ic'^a'^u^At^' 1',*^''"^ 4-hom6 before bank hours. no^nnc^for^l^ ^^'^"^^ ^^^' ^^'%^LS^,^ *'^<^^- «"' ' »>- r » n n- , . ' 13. F. BUTLER. Capt. Loflin 8 letter contains cash. Let me know whether the Comptroller found the account ol public monies received by the Attorney General fM V Burenl during my agency, correct. I furnished it last mail ^ " ^ (bent by Mr. Bacon.) oflh^P hr„L H l^'*'''^""*'^'^''- "'^'■'^e'^ would neither purchase the "good-will" rPn LnU M u " ^'''^"t' ?* ^^""■'*'"' ""^ «"«^'^*" "'« Washington and War- ,!kpnn.^ti ""^' '""''^''* *'^''"' Albany to New York to practfse law, havina taken out licences, as an attorney-at-law, and a solicitor-in-chancery. ^ To Jesse Hoyt, Esq., New York, ^''^''"°' ^"''^'''' ^"^^ ''^''' ^«»«- Dear Sir, ••###*##« Ynnr hrntho* IN A SL(fvV WAY, until Mr. B. [Barker] isltttiv^'fj omeSSatS: nce-and in the meant me I shall take it liow and easy for thcTutre wSt ife mUfiTh '"'' '^T l^'-the.two months past, which have been in eve?;^"spec the most laborious and perplexing of my life. I felicitate myself, however, with the eflection, that 1 have relieved MANY HUNDREDS ofplsons who wouTd have plRTrALT y' /'/ '' T. Yr^'' ^ ^'- ^^l^^' advisif me-^A«. U^oekXp t'AKllALLY the credit of the paper ID= m the vicinity of the Bank, which in the IhaT hlv?fP'"^7"''^^''^ '''''' ""^ '^ "^ ^"^ ^'' ''^"^ iscount-a ut hat n a5 that I have done, I have been actuated by a sincere desire to promote the interests of my employer, and the welfare and preservation of the community • '^'%^^^l In haste, your friend, B. F. BUTLER. CHAPTER V. Messrs Butler and Barker's management of the Washington and Warren, and the flrnftl fnld'^'' rr^M 'iJ'^'V'r'^"'*- '^"'^^ -«^''-- of these lltZi,^, L Iw t, uth told too late. Mr. HoyVs ,^ctent agency. Pvffs and puffers. nn!?"""! "f '^'^'^ P".''^''' career-his rapid advancement— the high and honorable posts he has occupied-the very lucrative situation he now fills-lus stan mfa^ ^ moralist, and professing christian-these are known-but of his Lm « / ^ developed in the preceding letters, his countrymen have hitherto remSedh pro- found Ignorance He denounces in the Sandy Hill Times, greedy sSatos and arrogant monied aristocracies, and this too from the shop counte^r ofTchartered exclusive banking monopoly, of which he was the richly endowed High Priest- nPnJ .""l' '^'" ^r't'"^ '^^ P-'^y"^^"* "f *'« J^^t debts, by countinf out six! Ss nan^ f °'^\'- Tf "^l"".^''- '° ^l''^'' '^"^^ ^^0 held thousands ot^dollars of Will continue its^ J^de;; tl^Strini;:^^^'^^^^:^^^^:^!;;:^^ tE^ uttermost fartlung,' -and this he solemnly affirms on his hoLr as a man, aSd in 89 BUTLER AND BARKER REVIKWKD, AS BANKERS. his oflirial capacity as the presiding oflicpr of the corporation. His " bulletin," all llit^ N. Y. EviMiiiiif I'ost, the Albany papers, and nil he calls it, was copied into over the state. 11 is fervent [)iety ffave weijrht to his asservations— the people believeil, were deeeiveil, and lie adinitM to Mr. Jloyt, in his letter of Nov. 16, that his character iind sutlered severely in consequence. If he told the truth, that the Hank was perfectly solvent, what are vvc to think of his abiding Iriendship for .Jacob Barker, who had allowed its notes to fall to 40 cents, cash! Mr. Hutlcr reniaiiu'd as President of tlu' bankrupt i-oncf^n uiilil it was intimated that his i)rincely income was to be taken away, next year in Feb- ruary. ()n the !»th of February, 18-J(), the notes of the \V. and W^ rlank were quoted in the I'lveniufr Post, as worth :i7i cent.s— ami on the -Ith of Mar<'li, at only 35 cents per dollar, while Barker's Ivxchanije Hank notes had found their level at 20 cents. Still we find President Hutler at his desk in Sandy Hill ! On the 17th of Seiuember, IH21, Heers and UunncU, ((uote VV. and VV. notes at 45 to 50 cents ; and in October the Evenimr Post has VV. and W. at 45 cents, and Barker's Exchange notes i)iiyablo in N. Y, at, onlv 12i cents per dollar. Next year they were sold at 10 cents for ;■ dollar note. Jn June, 1824, after the VV. and VV. Hank notes— fnuu $ 150,000 to * 300,000— perhaps twice as much (for there is no believincj any thinj? that such person . as Barker may assert)— after its notes were boufjht in at 50 to 75 per cent discount, then— but not till then— did this fraudulent concern, recominri,,(- again " cash payments," which Mr. Harker or his instruments kept up lor some years — but the Exchange Bank was a dead failure, of which its owner got rid by taking the benefit of the state insolvent law. In August, 1810, Mr. Jacob liarkcr issued a pamphlet, dat.d at his Exchange Bank, a bundle of which he sent to Mr. Butler, at Sandy Hill, for general circula- tion — one of these is now be'bn! me. It states. That he (Mr. Barker,) began his Exchange Bank, in New York, with a sub- stantial capital of $250,000 ; that it tlourished till May, 1810— that tlio average or usual circulation of its notes was over half a million of dollar.s — that in that month he ceased to pay out Exchange notes, substituting Washington and Warren, (which occasioned the run on his President, at Sandy Hill ;)— that from the Isi of August, 1818, to the 1st of May, 181'J, he had redeemed a/ par $582,115 of VV. and VV. not('s, " while others were purchasing them at a discount," — that from April 2(ith to June lOth, there was not one thousand dollars of the W. and VV. bills returned for redem|)tiou — and that he cunsidrml Ihr \V. diul W. Bunk " FROM THE KNOWLEDGE HE HAD OF ITS CONCERNS, AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER, IF NOT THE BEST IN AMERICA." Mr. Barker further said, in this pamphlet of his— " because I know the paper lo he good, 1 recoinincnd to every man whose good opinion I wish to preserve, to take the notes of the Washington and Warren Bank, and also the notes of the Edchange Bank for any property he wishes to sell." Again — " The notes of the W. and W., payable in N. Y., will, from this date be punc- tually redeemed at this (Exchange) Bank ; and the others will continue to be redeemed at the Bank at Sandy Hill." " I confidently calculate that no man will approach the polls at the next spring election, with a bill [of the Exchange Bank] in his pocket, which he caimot then conv. ,1 iPto money, at par, if he chooses to do so." Time 'hewrii that all thi'= was a deception of the most unprincipled, reprehen- siblp chirr!i:;ttr at it did nw. diminish the close intimacy then subsisting between Jer Hoyi, Jacob Barker, and Martin Van Buren ! After stating to his friend Hoyt, (23d of June,) that he had paid in cash two sums amounting to $ 166, Mr. Butler threatens that if any more such calls should appear, he would place them in their turn among the bank creditors lie was then tantalizing with sixpencies and other " small change." When i\Ir. Olcott complains of Banks which speculate in their own depreciated paper, and place their funds far from " the only spot where they pretend to redeem" their bills, (which was the case with the VV. and VV.) the meek sabbath keeping Mr. Butler, threatens to write for the papers, what would gall his (Olcott's) " hank to the quick." And when he (Butler) appiuhended that his notes would be demanded when due, by banks holding quantities, he sent Jesse Hoyt to terrify them I Chancery. The locatio business, and chosen as a n. .ittorney, the Hirts of law, i " llie Young i take back the to " fall in ^v| i:idl " the D would pray of over the eredu his worthless y If such a ma Altoiney, at > the Senate, she and temper of In his " sec means to pay awhile!" Lei and proper call in a slow wa through the \ " uttermost far for B. F. But!. (his lOth of Ju the law, if lie ^ and Barker had Ca.ses are on of their bills to receiving, as it that recorded ol class, but it is both with ca.sh a smaller sum ti of its business. Among those relief law of If iienjamin Frank Mr. Hoyt got extract was well Messrs. Webs " Sandy Hill, Ji; to community, yi "The run upo is wholly subside us, salisfml the pt Iw his temporary i Mr. Butler, the F his own hands, h( were more than a bills, to lay them retire to give roor CAN MR. BUTLER CONTINUE TO HOLD OFFICE? j|8 ^n^^"" '^ '"■"'*''"'"» ^°'"^' '^"•^ ^^y'"*^ "^''"s ^vith .cxatious proceedings in Altoincy, at N. Y with ««J(»nnn,>»' „ i 't^- i""i''">'< "np» oi ij. b District til.' ShkUc, sho .k Lis name be int o tS Vh.?"'"' ? L^''" ' ""^' "^ '■•'"«™^'d by ^nul t..u.p..r „(• this ,rr, 'a r 'public ' ^ '""'" '""'"''"" ^^^^^ ■"'"'*' ""= ^^'^W^ :n.tJ';;',^:t;t"r :.^!j- ,!^;7V.a ;;;■:; -^ii (l;:s.;'rt^ rv^'-^y "^ :i wliilc !" Let " the Dubiic (Vet a littln " Til," ,.. mi, !\ ''^ ''"'''"' *" ^^"'t ''utt^inostluShiJ ' VLu'lXw uS' .r'll' "'' 7""'! P^y '« ^h« and Barivor had dociarcd to bo ir? " the best in An.ericlil "^ * "'""'' ^^ class, but it is evident, b7 Mr C"''s olnZluH '^l^^u"^ ^'"^ "^ ^^at both with cash nndth^bniso-o e bLkrinMartun^nn^^^ redemptions, a smaller sum than a nal bank i.avs i -u. bo r nr^Iv li i"'^' ''"counted to of its business. ' ^ '" ''""' "' ^''" '" ^''« ordinary transaction benjamin Franklin Butler re to ,L room .or o^f ^j;-j;^tll--- ^^l^^ -n b.,.^a ■ f-'l-i 9i BUTLER AND VAN BUREN ACTING IN CHARACTER. gol,l and .Jlver, and -went away satisfied that all was well, and that Sandy Hill was not without its ' grains of gold.' You may tell your Albany banks that they had better be a little more sparing of their denunciations, for their own vaults may have to atone for the oins of their keepers. Sell all the goods you can for these notes. But you had better not send up until the alarm has proved groundless, as you may be trod on in tlie cnj.vd. When you do send, however, you will always have the jueference over brokers in being waited upon, for we do not much admire those leeches upon the ' body politic' in this part of the country." Another pulf is given in the New York Evening Post, as an extract of a letter from Jacob Barker^ dated 28th June. " I left Sandy Hill yesterday The bank has not stopped pfiymeiit — U icill not stop payment; which please promulgate," &c. CHAPTER VI. Dp Witt C/uiton hlainei, in life, hvt praisid uftcrivards. Party spirit degenerating into faction. Hints for the Convention of 184G. " Clinton is raving mad, beside being a fool," says Mr. Butler, in one of his private letters to Mr. Hoyt. " I think the situation of the Governor is daily becoming more desperati ," saj's he again. Expressions like these are not unfre- quent in his correspondence, but it would appear, on rtference to his remarks and the resolutions which he moved in the House of Assembly, at the time of Mr. Clinton's death, that he had about that time changed his opinion. He there spoke of " the illustrious dead," whose name was more likely to be perpetuated in history than that of any other son of New York since its first settlement — said there never had been aught personal in his (Mr. B.'s) opposition, save respect for the character and admiration of the talents of a man " whose ambition it was to be distinguished as the friend of learning and morals, and as the advocate and patron of every measure, calculated to promote the welfare, or increase the glory of the State." " Let the statesmen of the present day, those who are now engaged in the career of ambition, learn wisdom from his example. The grave of Clinton will soon cover the recollections of his political honors, and in it will be buried the triumphs and reverses of the hour. But his fame as tlie patron of schools and seminaries of learn- ing, as tlie fr'end of morals and benevolence, and as the ardent champion of every great public improvement, will flourish while time shall lo ,t. Need I remind you of his eflbrts to call out and to foster the latent genius of our people .' Need I speak of his labors in aid of that gre^t work which has conferred so much glory on his native State, and so largely contributed to the happiness of its inhabitants? By connecting his fortunes with the success of that stupendous project, and by devoting to it the best energies of his mind, what an unfading wreath did he secure ! So long as the waters of the great lakes shall flow, through this new channel to the Atlantic, so long shall history record his name ! 1 have quoted Mr. B.'s remarks fnmi the New York Statesman of February 15, 1828. Mr. A'an Buren's, in a meeting of members of Congress from New York State, held in the Capitol at Washington, February 19, are taken from Genera! Green's Telegraph : " The high order of his talents, the untiring zeal and great success with whieli those talents liav(?, through a series of years, been devoted *o the prosecution ol' plans of greai public utility, are also known to you'' * # * * " the greatest improvenuMit of the a!T(' iu which we live was commenced under the guidance of his councils, aiul S])leudidly accomplished under his immediate auspices" * * * » " the triumph of his talents ami patriotism, cannot fail to become monuments of high and etuluring fame."' INIr. \ . B. then moved i resohition declaring Mr Clinton the " proudest ornament'' of New York State, and " a distinguished public benefiictor.'' Why it was ('linton an al Fiagg, and thi dental majorit where ho ha( eulogies will ( the House of j [Po.st mark, New York th;i know without seen the Gover nominations, a People~h\n he People. He will rccd but, if possible The Pepuhlin (/uestion; and, CLINTON LS IF IT 18 TH( WILL GO T'( Was Cardina tinuance of goo Extract from December 24th, full operation, : notorious politic despairing of be( meetings, and w will not acknow who composed tl to its political ca Townsends, P. ( mist that Repu popular measure measure itself I n from which it spr. ^fr. Butler feels Hoyt to keep t heeomes an activ benefit of the In Jesse Hoyt, Esq., poor wight ever ] ]nd)Ue censure and 'lad comparatively law labor. You are right ir A A SPECIMEN OP PARTY SPIRIT WORTH REMEMBERING. 25 FIa.?,andthn party eSrunlT ffv^rTr^^^/^''"" Y"^'"' ^""'^"'ih C. .Inntal majority in the loS UuJrmnoVll n^n'^f"' 'f '"" ^^l^^"*^?*^ «f an acci- where he, ha.l sat without S-; TeXer Mr v"" f ^^^^^^ ^^ the canal board, culofrics will explain-b„ the llllnv^n,^ fvt ; V" ""^"^ """^ ^'- Sutler's .he House of A^mhly, S^^.JIlrSirS l^^^T^Z::^ ^'^^ "'^ £r/,TO;v/ i/:««ir.-V««, Al/mm/, toJrsselloyt, New York. [Post mark, Albany Dec »! 1 ihoq u t? i i i\ew York that I was m.lor'yi Bu^w 'S''^''^ ''"' \''^ ^^''^-^^ '" ^circulation „, know without my teliinnm, -.t hn ' '"""'^"'^^ "'="'« ^^ «Peech, &e., but you seen the Governo^rS^ieh^^^^^^^^^ * * I have nominations, an,l LfS,hSTmntJ^T^f '' '^f"'?'"-^ '" ^'''"'' "^ ^^"«"« /;^..-..n he says tiat ... S.S:[:i;^/:r^ t Tl^ ^.^'^ ^ J .".|>if:T=^.:t^s=i; iLH rsre^- ' — - — CLINTON IS tERY D\NGEROT S THFvV^^^ '^"' "''^'•- IF DeSmbe £r 823 -~A mo". "nJ^* ' '" f^i^*^^ Jesse-dated at Albany, full operation 'in rdation to the iCsiden'tH^ '"'^ '^ """' *^'^ '"•^•"•^"^ "^ notorious political reneaales o wi W fIp l''^T^ ^'J""' '''''''^ ''^ ^^™ despairing of becomin.. Seat b'v anv nthi',? 1 and Jacob Lansing-men who, meetings: and who have become miSnth V^^'' '^'r?'^ ^^^ "^^'i"™ °f such will ncl acknowledge ;L!r:u"eriorr;td^gTeat^^^^ t Tme ^"^^ '%''TP'^ who composed the meeting wil/ superclle thf nTcessit nJlf.^^Jl^i^^J;;;"- .0 its political cas:^?'¥^j^;^-l^egI.^on^ssity of any fUJZ 'n„o .[^? .,^'"^^^"' ^^illiam James, J. Alexander thp ransevoort. tho r"i=owi,r„ r? tr 1 r^ ^"5 •'•^^j-iLA.inaer, me u™. that Republican, a„V,tXt'm„S'';vite;^*^^^^^ CHAPTER VH. Jesse Hoyt, Esq., New York. ^"^^"^ ^''^^' ^«^- !«' 1819. Mv Dkau Sir, — ****-*#t™ 26 BANKING RELIGION — LAW — POLITICS. that drama) in iIip Exchange Bank, is a common misfortune. To me especially it is a great one. / hud clteurfvlly .tiiJj'iTccI the drprcciotion of OUR PAPER, that Mr. B. [Barker] mifrlil in the meantimo bend all hi.s efforts to the Exchange Bank, and in the resiimption of payment there, hoped for the most anspicious results. The matter is past mending, and no doubt it is all for the best. Wc continue paying daily jn a smnll iray, iiiorr to nlwvr the syj}'(rings of roin/nunilij than for any other purpose. The credit of the paper is very low in this country — hardly any one takes it at par — and were it not for the small payments of which I spoke, no one of my neighbors would have any confidence in the ultimate solvency of the institution. Some few, inferrin? from what has been done and what is now dointr, that the intention is TO PRESERVE THE BAJS'K, are rulhir disposed to think favorably of the concern. * * * # # By the bye, my character is so depreciated at Albany (according to report) that but few of my old acquaintances would acknowledge or receive me. Some of them, I hear, have the kindness and condescension to compassionate and pity me, while others consider ine full as bad as Jacob Barhcr, which in these days is con- sidered a pretty severe specimen of invective and reproiich. So be it. They raiiiicit rob nin iif freo nature's irace, They cimniit slim tlie winildws (if llio sky, They ciiniiiit har my coiisiaiil feel to truce 'I'lic Wddda and lawns, by liviii!;slre:iin at eve, Of fancy, reason, cirtiie, noui-'lit can me bereave. I am sorry to observe that you are obliged to turn casuist in order to reconcile your Sunday labors to your own sense of duty. * * * * » ]\*o true conso- lation can ever be derived from any thing that requires the neglect of a religious duty. The ways of wisdom, and of wisdom only, " are ways of pleasantness" — her paths, and hers only, " are paths of peace." Mrs. Butler joins in affectionate remembrance. Truly yours, B. F. B. BUTL prefer remaini certainly won] lowed, I have do not rcnret t cate myself in Cccs'ir's, i/iat i IS a fair cxprrs to he even the ^ sumptuous to a have it known not already he fearful that Mt pects you indu Since my re: before the pubi preserved with some warmth. Education, 1 TAIL. I hav object but the ivc self within the me." I have receiv pay me the sal; compelled to loui gloomy. Sandy Hill, Dec. 17. 1819. Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Albany. My Dear Sir, — We have been much troubled by visitors at the Bank for the 10 days past. The Court of Common Pleas, which sat in the village a part of two weeks, has just adjourned. You can hardly conceive how much 1 was vexed and molested. Every man who owned a dollar of our paper made a point of bringing it along. I made my (h^bllt as an attorney — was employed in two causes which I tried audi argued, and had very good success. There is but little law business doing in this county. Such complaints you never heard from law- yers, of the dullness of the times and the scarcity of money. Most truly yours, B. F. BUTLER. [Mailed, Hudson, Feb. 9.] Hudson, Feb. 7th, 1820. Jssse Hoyt, Esq., Attorney at Law, New York. Dear Friend, — The release for Mr. Youle is enclosed. Wc have no Commissioner at our village, {the men ft for it being chiefly Buchtails,) and I therefore brought it with me. * * * *'* * * * You are THE ONLY PERSON to irhom I ever write caxept on business topics, and perhaps I should write less frequently than I now do were it not for the occasional necessity of the correspondence. Not that 1 dislike the employment, or have forgotten the friend — neither is the case. I have a tolerable prospect of getting a livelihood liy my profession at Sandy Hill, the appointment of Mr. Skinner and his con.-"' t^'nepast, and which will render my prospects rather B. F. BUTLER. F. B. CHAPTER VIII. Mr. Van Burcn and the Washington and Barker's Conviction and Letters. Warren Bank Charter. Mr. Butkr to Mr. Hoyt. My dear friend, ***** it i. hnf . n ^^^^Ny ^ h ^^^ ^^^^ jny son of t inS;;r j'r ';hJ'\^;:iSe St :Sir;^;S/ ^-^ t >^" h etr Ter; -S '".;;' F r "r ''^- '^^" ^'^^"'^ ex ecations, nor do I be- versati;;nt;S 'Sin tff s.^ ■ ct t'h^ iLS T^^o^^^^jY' ^""^^ ^""- ^.^.«. th^at he .^u,dM,n acLect;on .JZT t^a ^^^/^Ij. '"^' "T T^'t ___ Ihe *Committee ot Inquiry intended to report next week, but as clwrce against the Jii.lee, a n.eniher of riieAss^mlvn' v^v^ ,,''''' '^; ^ ^'"erican made a si^ecific •hey ha,l shared S20,0no of a bhhe from the haXoi^^ an Attorney of Coh.mbia Co', that er, .„ 1S13. General Root moved fin- a C m lefon he a^.h , '''"? '" "^ P"''^'"^'' '^'"''^ ^rccial cliar- V; lY had accepted S5(I00 for his Jervkes ™ X k in ,h'^ r '" "t^^T^ "'■^''^^'" " "'^^ "-"e that Judge ■111 the circumstance, of briherv a, ,7cormpt o that tnarLd th^n""'' "^ '^f ?'""• ?"'• lemarked, - that^if "Peiland unraveled, it would take the c Z h el f lon^^hl^ proeress of that charter were to be rievel- was a|,poir,ted. The Jtidsre, instc'n I of Sn" n/^nf ilV f r^v^" T'T" ^^"' ''"'■^■" ^ c^^i'tee of nine lowed the aid of nM,rdistin.A,i,she lawyer e^hS ''r '" '""""'' "'""• "'^''^ '" '« '''• ^vore also lawyer., and their chairman w s't e mi! ur ol^ the fn '? '"' "''" ''■''""',■ ''A" '"""^^ comnniiee •here were in abundance, but, say niess sC ar s Ki ,^ the Jiuk-e's senior c(,nn.^el. Quirks and quibbles Ameriran, of imil I3ihl--Mndp; ' ,i '""^"^'.'^ '^'i'?- J- A. Hamilton, and Johnston Vornlai'ick in Tho , 1. The BoardWr tor," f' 1 e'' a rof'^^^^^ ff "'' '"""^ '"''''l^ T" ^' war«hown"tha^t! 1'^ seen by the Committee as contained the e, irv fo/,hl „ ' Permit so much of their book of minutes to ;«s it was to be put to, and ihTmu vea for 1 7ptmtt'^TonlVn^ ^^""'',?' "^ ^^O.OCK), with the the riueslion. ""idcs lur ine pajmont, though that entry would probably have settled 28 BANKiiKS AND JUDOES IN TUOUHLi;. Judge Vail Ness has not yet returned, 1 do not believe tli(>y will bo ready. Thai concern looks very dark for his Honor. If he is innocent he iias been very unwise in the course he has ndojited. If he shall be convicted, uliiniately, what a degrad- ing circumstance it will be for the judicial character of our State ! It was ojicc our pride and ornament — but how are the confnlence and respect of the public to be preserved when its members are suspected, iimch less when they are arraigned for '* high crimes and misdemeanors ! '' — In truth your very sincere friend, J3. F. BUTLER. The reader may have j)erhaps had an impression tiiat, in IHl'J, Mr. Butler was in some degree, the dupe of his cunning relative, Jacob Barker. 8uch was in no re- spect the case. Between these financiers and their I'riend Mr. M. Van Buren the very best understanding continued to prevail, and j)revails to this very hour. Mr. Butler acted as Mr. Barker's agent long after he left Sandy Ilill — did business for the W. & W. bank, when, 'ifler " getting in its notes,'' it opened shop again — was Mr. ]3arker's advocate vhen, in 18'2{J-7 he was thrice tried, never acquitted but again and again declared io be guilty of enormous frauds, by upright and in- telligent juries, in the New York Circuit Court — and pleaded liard with the jury not to convict, aiding also other " hnanciers" then tliere placed in some trouble, to appease a pillaged and insulted community, and escape the penitentiary and pillory, a doom which some of them very richly merited.* a. Tlic ri'ciipt which i\Ir. liiirrall took I'nuii Williain.-i fur ihiil swn, whicli ho handed tu his successor and asked him to lirini; it to Alhany, Uio latter refn.sed, sayiji? it wunld not lie necessary, and when at Alhany denied all recnllectiun of il. ii. ^Messrs. Jiihn Dmr and Kudiilph Bunncr swear positively that Jndic Van Ness twice confessed to each of them, se|)arately, tliat he was entitled to one third of the 620, (Kill received hy Williams— that he feared that Williaais meant to defraud him. and only L'ive himSotHIU — that the money was a !.'raluily to him (the Judge) from the hank of America— and that Williams claimed a part of the casli for Urosvenor, of Coluinhia Co., on the express L'roimds that he had been as useful in getting' the hill through the l.eu'islature as either of them. This was the bank which Governor 'i'ompkins pi\>ro;,'ucd the Legislaiure rather than agree to iis incorporaiion in I>I2. ■t. It was shown th.it JudL'e V. N. had L'iven contradictory accounts of the way he became entitled to this '• gratuity." — that 3Ir. AViliiams had done Ihe . per cent instead of H — to prove which he jiroduced the original proposal of even dale with the bond. The Judge got the ».JO(JU, it is true, but Cieneral itoot's inquiry alfecled his health— he died .some years after. What a dangerous thing, in a country where every one depeiiils on the law as a protector, is it to have judges ready to lioldout tlie hand for " u eratuity," while with the tongue and [len they sit iu the (laid min- isters ol the law. perverting .ju.^tico ! With .^Ir. Van Ness, bank gratuities were not new, When, in March, tSOr), a faithful committee of ibi; A.-^.sembly of that ilay a.sked leave to report tlie evidence of whole- .sale bribery in the matter of the Merchants' Hank charter. It'ave Wiis refused, and si.v members implicated in the charge added, to delay ot crii.--!i investiL'ation ; of these i\Ir. Van \e.ss was the first named, and he ap- J)ear3 in unenviable preeminence on the memorials of legislative frailty in those early times of bank fraiiil. f he pre.ss had e.vposijd the legislature — I\Ir. \ an Ness voted for a motioji to prosecute the editor of the Cit- izen for libel, which was agreed to, and against another to permit him on the trial to givi\ the truth in evi- dence, and il was rejecli'd. Judae Van Ness and lOlislia Williams were old collea^'ues. gentlemen of talent, perhapa, but seemingly regardless of the institutions .■ind morals ol their couuliy. I tliink il was (jovernor Lewis who .■^elected this corrupt II ;islaior as a iSupreme (jourt judge, in Itid'J. * The extraordinary failures, indictments, and trials of l>'iG-7, and the parts played in them by Messrs. Butler and Barker ought to receive a brief notice here. [I is the interest of the land owner and sleady-goin;; business-man and capitalist, to have the currency, ihe money in circulation, by wliicli hou.ses. lands, manufaclures, labor A:c. are measured, of one real substantial, uniform value. When gandilers in the legislature are allowed to t.inipc^r with the money cur- rent in the country, they pursue their private interests at tlie expense of the slate, which they speedily throw into confusion, create innumerable profitable jobs at every turn of the dice, cbamie liieir ideal paper shekels into the more solid substance of laud, and l:iiii:h at the (iilly of its ancient possessors, in .allowing them to do all this, Mr, Barker, havin;r, as Itu havs, nothing more to lose, entered Wall street as a dealer in stocks and funds, scrip and hocus jiociis : and in September l^-^'^O was indicted by a New York grand jury, alom; \.'ith Afessr.-.. Mark Spencer (who hail figured in \>'Si, in the Chemical Bank atl'airs,) Ci W, Brown, and others, (iir conspiring together to swindle or defraud the Morris Onal, Tradesmen's, and Fulton lianks, and the Life and Fire i;o,, all of that city. .After a trial of twenly-tive days the jury dis .igreed, a loltery-ollice broker, having, .is it is stated, stood out for Barker. They were tried again in llie Circuit Court, before Juili-'e l-Alwards. in November, anil found guilty. Barker applied to the Supivnio Court, got a new trial, and was mi the I'-ilh of July, lS2r, a .-ecoi.d time lound guilty, Mr, ^laxwell. District Attorney, did liis duty nobly, in behalf of the country — but what will not money, parly influence, and a bos',, of intluenlial and learned counsel eti'ect for a partisan stock-jobber, when cauglit as Barker was ! The indictments, trials, verdicts, and the expense, vast as that must have been, ended in a heavier lax on honest citizens, and Jacob escaped llie State Prison, through the aid of such a judiciary as Van Bureu, Hoyl, Blair, Butler, and O'SuUivaii describe, I hope the Convention, in b'Mt;, will purify it a little. It was ,-lated on Barker's iri.-ils that be bad lent tlu' Life ,ind Fire Co. SKill.lHIO lo prevent it from step- On the 7lh business wouli aticcessor of ] sumption of p took place fo: expense of th In 1823, th: Vork auclionei tiie bank begai ping payment— an which induced the with tivo broken In iii.^ debts? Barki Very little by liim- was for a long limi tal and enormous i llieiniwi solemn ai liaiit. Then comes lionest corporalior Barker hire the mt tin: privileire, denii would not do. During his secoii man of large propi lie docs nut pay tlu large contracts— an in August, I.'i-il, From that day to i Jiiiirnal, or Ledger- each to till thein up assistant, and two ( and during these si: fail, Vcrimlyea, a d ties .''or debt's i.\\m tl dune ,so ! This ,assi lent, when he boiigli tioas of the bankru] W'liild have gone pen lies would be delive; making the most ol consideration in the They also appoint this very like Beers The company hat lion of dollars, ruin, by lire ; ditto, risks inere jack-o-lantern i direclors cashiered, ( debts contracted, tlu nvx insiiiution was i In M.iy, \Ai)j, ,6^5(l,( ("iiial stock, this agi the 3Iercanlile Comi -"1 within the gripe two of the Fullon ( i'radesnien's Bank st -mi shares. Why hi -Mr, Leavitt. now t I'-ini very insiiilin^'ri peached himself. "Fi jurors, was tried for i the Commissioners h cent on his shares, c< wt-re convicted with privileges." I have been thus |); In Ilia knoirkilgc, a; iliat his Conduct and pired. i\lr. Barker f -peech. to which I sh that bdliinies the Iito lijet, or boiiiid to the I the solemnities of till newspapers sjieakin!,' the hall -it was publi Mr. Butler next liii; A-;, " if you wished' iliicroscope; but wile laruer insirument. U ileteudhim withacle, •-i'W to !J(U. I THE NEW VORK FINANCIAL FRAUDS OF 1826. 29 On tJie 7lh of May, 1821, the Sandy Hill Times announced, that the bankin.r successor ol li. t. ijutler, as cashier, had arrived, and was nreparinff lor the rp ZkT/"^""""' "'."''"' P^*^^'""^ '"'-''=^'-" No such esurS however cxlLl'^f'heSl'"^ announcement was, itself, a new speLlatlon ItTe Vork-uiciionee'r ^^is-n^hf 7' m. Nantucket, making interest to be a New .^^ankbiga'to paVagain"^ra^Sne""° '^^^^"'^'^ '''' " ^ '^^ '^^"^^ ^^ ''«"-' With twu l.ruk,.,. iKtnk. lie, lo' s .k n^ lomi ^ v >e '^'riinifK, '/"'if ."'l^' T",'''' '"■■ "" '"■^"'^''^ ''•='""'• v.ry little by lm„-thai hi. ( i ke V) o " ,,u cm ' I v us «• ^( I'l";; ' t"!' A'"', "", '"^ ■^^'>'-^ '"' '"^^ "ut >^-l aii'l o„nm,.,u.s .'im.H hen; (lls,,la v,'l ef e h > Ah .1 \tZ ' '',' i]"V"" "! "»r™isli the vast capi- ll..Mnu..t .„le,„„ ami apparently sin ..eollcto^^^ Kark.r j,„ue.l, in Ati^'u^t, 1819, in il.iul. Tlieii COMICS poverty-then si K mi n,^,^^^^ r , '^'' '" ''''^ ''" '''''"•'' *^'^ '•""■« '""J "'JUn- l."..e.t r,orporation-fran,r .ay u I e I o e,^ ,lf " o I f ^''>'« «^^'-'""l "« I""' '" proj. a di.s- Hiirker hinl the moat eniii.enl lawyeri of the i. ^ iJff '.^'^ ."';'''' "'", '■""■','" '"'""I" ^"' ""'y 'H'' ll"' pnvil..e, denied to pooreriS/of .°,L ^or^^^^^^^^^ "n "'"" "I'l'"-";'' ''-V Hie jud.e will, would not do. ' ■^I"''"'"'=' "T niniaelf US ifhe had been undelujided by others— hiit all ,.^"11^!^ ':^:;ii^':^ "!^l!I:;^:^:^U«'^j:^^^^,!J^^-l-^.r^-f • Jo^op,. n. Beer.--^ U m. Barker a / ""■"^«" 'g«"'"^' ^2^ iL^sistaiit, aod two clerks. 31r 13 L'r vas'ai t le oVro lln,^^^ '''"r '' f "'.•'"'•>' "t S-^-^^^'" '""re, also his ;•";! .lurin, the..e six tnonths tl.e ,li -t ol vfre ever Vuc 1'' Wir"' T"'^'" ""'"'■" ^'"^ ^'''^"''' liiil, Verinilvea, a director and one or two nfihn , '.-i- •'»»' ml led I V. hen the concern was ready to ti.s for debts due the con , y t tl^' t no , of «G Wm' f'-lf' '''" ',''"" ''■'"^'' "'"' 'V""'''^' '" ^■'''^" ''''^'"■ 'lone .so ! Thi., a.ssign.ne, t wLid 1 ave SledAI. : k i. "' f "" ''T>' "-"m''? ''""''' "'^' "'«>' had lent, when he bo.,?!,? the bon.ls at a ' real I i c, , 1 -.m^ '! .?;' '!""^^'-'" ",' '/'" ''7 '^'e .noney he had tarns of the bankrupt concern, to use a. a set ',:.', H ''' '""■.?'",».''l/'^'- ."'I'er worthless obliga- WH.dd have ijoiie pe.liiiless. If by oV, der n ,1 n' 'w I , . X"^ ,'" '"''^ ''""';■:■ ^^'''''' "^''or creditors lies ^yo^Ild be del vered to bin at t e f i r ,^ V, , l" '" ''^'■'' ''" ^yp'" "'■^' SGl-.lttXI valno in securi- niakin-' the n.ost of the prefr en 7 I i ^th5 Jicers „ .^i^^^^ "< ''•"" '^i'"'^'"''.!'"" '" I'^^'P'-'^e for cousideralion in the case/ lielieve that wh, Venn ' '" ""'''"''' '^e spoil. Was there no ^^^;^^^fnl^'^o:^^^:^!A'^r:^^^^ ^-Sent to wi.u. .p tiie concern. I. not li.m oV doKl^ulnlnr:;^*:^' ]Z^;;ZZ ''"f ^--vith a capital of ^lOtVKK), when it (aile.l for a mil- l.y lire ; tlitto.'risks bj "e vcW'a es ■ tn is s we ' ";■"■"■ 1 ^'''"'.''^■';- '"'^'^^^^ ' 'li"". I"'"*-. Iron, danger mere jack-oda uern or will oVll-wisn to d veiv, ,h, , ? "'' i'""""^ '';'""?'=' ''""'■ "'"' '"« "'I'"''-- was a ilireclors cashiered, "Ifice . fra uh le 1 • J yal n" m b^^ 7 n ''',' "f l>'''""''"^'-" Books in confusion, debts contracted, tiie pulilic |ZI' i ^ „ J, 'j'^u'o K^ k^^^ ^ I'J-bts bad vanished, enormous ill- institution was always borr w in at ^ , r^ . ,n^ ""'^ ?ii.i.-i;-Im., who kimwiin,- that a lend- Canal stock, his a^aiu wa. exc mid fo^^ rii' ■?,• n/'l'>'nv'<><'My e.xchan;;ed for 25t)U shares of ^lorris the 3Iercanlile Conniany that si e°,hv wfs^,^^ Hilton Bank stock, which weal into the hands of .■"t within the srip of fo ;'s/ Jac b fe ^a', I ^-miV'r''^"''"^'-'''^^"'''''' ^^'"^"'' ''"'- ""-• ^''^'^'^ ""^'ly two of the Fultoi'i .lireciors,;' 1^ luceine f ,; n^?"^ "","' ''' ^V-'^y' i"'" Brown, IVailesnien'sBankstockw-eritra "ferr d to \ It I, ,f I'f "'/^'; '"-^ >:''■';";«• ■»--i'!il.OU(l value oi" NMsl„ares. Why had he the^n 'i '\V|;;\'|i;;\;^J;!;,/,^;',\l\';;';;;f"i- ^"e and tire bonds, of which Barker had iKMChed himself For Ihu.s callii ■ ill • V^.v iV/;!!- , Li 'V'' ? ""l"'"cli 'n'"- and that he had ini- .lurors, was tried for so I oi i.^ f , d i iiv 1 , «, ^''h'' '" ''''1 ",'""' «'""-li'' "eM lilK^llcl two of the the Commissioners had In en' ,? i e^n L"'^ tr.^o, 11' on ' ""' '", '"'?,' ■^'"[■^■"i '" ""^ ^•"""^"' «''""' eeut on his shares, contmlled the e lee iirwdiici n '^■' "' ""';-,"'"'',','"'"'^'-'' '"^ '''" ' l"i'l """ were ._ted with bimseii; tor ^'^:::::'.:^'^:^^r;;L;:^icz^^^^ io'i/i^i^:;;;;j^£:f !;^^he"!;tur\;^":t^.oo,i"^ t^*;;;^ r^^ f<=^ ""^ '^'i'"- "^ ^ '-'^ "^ '-■ -1-11. iliid his conduct and BIr I k "f Ian -naC ntis^ ^. 'Vl ''," '^^V'^ be.^l in America." in order lured. Mr, Barker pubii.shed (G ,u Id , inlei i 1^^7 ,'' '^ ,1. f "''"' ^■'"',"' '""' ''"■"■, '■'-'' "'='y ''" '"'"'■ ■peech. to which I shall now rell-r utier r n 1 1. T :. '" "'"' volume, with his Iriend Butler'.s iliat bdlames the ferociou^av' 'e wl I e , ,1, ^ %' '" 'V'^''^''^""; " *-'"venied by ihe same spirit leet. or bound to the blazini,. ii',f h;" d r I , v o .^, ' , '""""' '? '''" ""'" "^ " ^"''- ^'"'"'^'''^'' "" ^i'- ,V.: ' "if • o \^^ I 7/ "'■''""• "ii'l «'.vs ■■yon (vill join with me in snppilratin" the Father of I irdos •> l^iruerinitruinent U v^V'^mT^j^ rk ilH^^^ relations of a planet, you will select a clefeiidbimw-ithaclearcoiscience * * # T ***** jeau ••^■'Wtoau. ^'<-ai coiLsci. nc... » » « .f. # H« lias (.yer been loimd faithful to bis trui.t," p. 30 HOW THE WASHINGTON AND WARREN BANK WAS CHARTERED. In a letter, from New York, Marrh 1-2, 1823, Mr. Jacob Riirkor writes to Mr. Jesse Hoyt, " I have no now.s to tell you— airi poor, out of Imsiness, with bad prospects, yet cannot but smib^ :it, the freaks of fortune — money very scarce, stocks fallmtr. . . . VVhat think yon of th(! application for M'j T/Wftsmr-rt'.s /7rz«A-.? I feel an interest in its f ivor on account of Mr. Worth — yet I cannot helicve it will Pi'ss. . . . If sIk; [Ross's ship] iiocs the ronnd.'s well, she will probably make him a preat voyase while I a poor (levari am not makinei decl.iiniio!.' and vot Four days alter, 1 then 27 inemhers. (ihHi)icc wonid liav rtliy did he ilenv it I'kl Ruir.Uo liiink ! Cmiine of the Ar; course of the f mr d "ilhhold, which in (jiie-i, reader — giies '■ Of all inventior latino of we.allh. tl coiiipiiiies are IJA.N ■■ Tlii;ir Holes are Govennnent has ihi '■ II is wi'il knowi to Iviiikiiis iocorpnr it was. d.inblless. til rienioiihenes caui He ciiuld 11(1 lon^'(M-" Alheiiiiii orator, fall have always beon (i| to add, •• anil theivli iiitiinalely." said Se of a niitioiial cnrre.n Barker's \V. and W. iwrtuer. ."Mr. nmler. lioji— and when it h; tioii of a new bank ianuenre of the inoi leii— but he oniilied loc.ited up at S'andv : The '■ resior.iiio'ii' bill p.is.^ed the Senali favor. Next came tl aa'iinsl it. sent it n Biiren below the bar Mon- tliev wheeled ii, The \V. and W. I);i it.' capacious vaidls 1 were to be carried on llie ilcjcriptive e|ii.--t J'^^r^.O',!;), were in the from that source iilon Mr. Barker dolled monger. After his i tried, coavicied, and liav,! luit heard. •■ I another, to shoot liiii prove that Iboii.rh lie ."^Ir. Barker. Hazan Coiiiress (in- a Bank - pamphlet with the s; federates write in sect distributed." VAN BUREN, BARKER, BUTLER AND THE BANK. 31 will give Alderman Gideon Lee and John R. Hcdley, Esqs., as securitv-thev are highly respectab e and responsible men. Aldernmn Lee is ^ery rich ^Ihe names of some stoekholders have been mentione.l, but as a question o^' liab litv u '1?'^ fr.m the peculiar phrascoloj^y of the act of incorporation, I tim.k it wo4 be verv unwise to appoint any party interested, therefore I hope that Mr. Lath op or Mr bhorman will be appointed, or both of them. -i-ainrop or Mr. Yours sincerely, .JACOB BARKER. CHAPTER LY. ■I Able Mr. Buthr abandons Sandy Hill. Ho)jt. Albany. Officr only fo, Ifrmzo Uoyl'a morals. Poverty of the brothers IhirUaih. War fo be avoided. The Convention I think it IS Do Relzvvho tells us that "those thut are jruilty of in-ratitude _elom perceive it, because the same inclination that leads them t^o h, Kiem jir^lU. lessen in their thoughts, the obligations they have received from thdr bene. Kepon, iiml iiiMlnubl inilv i' ,i--'> '- l-.th.T.in.law Buren both thea'ir'Iilemhl'r';''' Tr'u,'-'' [ff """■^''' '" '^'■*'"''- tl,<« IjiH-this roq„iro,l tw„.thi,-,l. oftho Senate wl.ich h-.d "W Bmlaln liai.li ; Are nrit IS w , hi, f -^7- v- ' 1 ?""'' ";''','/>«,''f "/IV" voted hut for the C:nuiae of the Arjos. another.' \ Vi lor of ,n- / » Vt .^^^^^ 1 " "r ""-" ^V ^y-""" '"" '>'*• '■'^lal'^e. nHirse of the lour .lay. with a coo, e f , ,0 ey 1, -h^ w.^ ':" L nv!'i'' f''''''" "' ^''-'f ''''"'' "-^'-''' '" '^^ i. -H. .I„,,hth..' the .eaeral .eoth.;;:,ai;a!;^';,e,n!,cra,-v of ri;;:'!^;^!''!:^'''^ l^^" '" ^"" -'"''-"'. -'^ ;?r;:S;;;;:;rr:?S"^.;f;;:.;'Sr 5 r^: " Jffr^^ Barker'. W, and W. Bank^ receivi "a uew |,'l v i l ^i .^ ,'''' "'""';.'"" "'^^'»-<' t" I'fe Jacob i^o;:-a]\^h!^rirL:;H:£;ri-LfH : r hinpa.:e;uhrseiK;;:;:^.;':L''with;!„t'^n'o;;L '^"™,'^- ^i-oop-. Aub„r„ Bank fi>vor. Next ca.ne tlte «na m;^ ™ 1 e u' ' J V Or^^'il tT^^llTh "«" "I'" A""^'f tf '^'''"= '" "« M-v thry wheeled ioto line and vot, ,1 ,,' np t^ni ' '"'' '"'^^ '^ •""^•" "^ ""■"• ''-■''''«'"=' bidding on tlie 24th; i.s';^;p:)cio;;stanit^u;'::ll,i'o;:;t\i'^;;^onH;:;^ ?,""•■"•" •"" ^'-i^t-'".'- had paid mto m' ™r '^'f^f'h!^''lnsol^!';:^S:f^V:i;ii'';y'';, ""i 'r" ";"! ^"'" ^'^^ '''^^i''"' ""• i" l^^^, and mmed a,nd. i:^:-;!^n;;n;S-''i?f'''f"^^"'-'^ llr ii.,,.1. . 11 i'"_..t.„ K3 noi i.M ..n.i.in.i. P. n- :i.!hfi'rt lit the L'hadow." pamphlet with the satne proposal-only the stock t. he roClio",' He lavs nuhUciv wh.V hh"'" ^ d^ft"Ced""' '" """-" "^^ "^"' '^ ^ «°^«^'""-' ^ e-=' Paper^nk" th;"toc']c"';'i1,^ .^^''u'^ p';^p^erly 32 TJIK YOIJNO JKSUIT — THE I,AW — ALHANV. Ijohmizo Ildyt, wlmm tlit! |ii(iu« Mr. Uiillcr IkkI instructoil in tlio niystories of law, rnlifridii, and (in:iric(!, was a law pupil of tlii! firm of Van MiiriMi and Hiitlor, and, as till! latter Icll.s iis, " a very line yontli." 'I'lie priiiciplo ho avows to his lirotlicr .lcsK(\ withoiii any apcdoyy, in liis letter of Marrli 7, IH:,'|, that any lliinn he eoujd do to liie |)rejiidice of liin l)enefa('tor, Mr. Ijivin^slon, and Ins own henelit, was jiisti- liaMe, provided lii.s treaeiiery was not found otit, is as had as any Ihinj; wo have heard ascrilurd to the daiiireroiis order of .lesuit.s. Ili.s tf^aeln^rs must have hcen Moniewhal ncM^leetful of his morals. Mr. \,. had no idea that younjf Jloyt was Iry- inp to supplant him. On tin; ;id of .lamiary 1H02, ho thus wrote his hrotlier ; — " Sutherland in caneus says that when lie, t(dd liorenzo that I had tlio nomination, fof ('lerk of Asse,mhly,| ili.it Lorenzo jumiied up two fi'ei at least. 'I'liis hespeaks aiiimaiioii. I am miieli pleased with l,oren/o, and his situation will improve very imicdi under the tuition of Scorer the Deputy." 'I'lie situation of the lirolliers jioyt at this time, was unenviahly poor, and jierhapa it would have heeii heller for society th;il it had remained so. Mr. lloyt's cruel, vioi(Mis, prolliffato, and perseciitinir career as Collector of the ('usloms for the port of N(!W Vork, wa.s at this pi^riod of his life not even dreanil of. ilo was a mere adviMituror, who was ready to i)erform tin; services Mr. A'an ihiron rciiiiircd, in the lio])e of olitainiiii; otliei' and its einolumenls ihrou^ih his inlhionce, and his career was for a time successful. Mr. l,ivinc;stoirs unsuccessful c^tliirt to make Mr. H. U. Ward, the law |)artner of .li'ssc; lloyt, a master in chaiicory, hecauso he had not been lonjj; ciiougli a hucktail, will show how allairs went at Albany, better than a labored essay. Mr. Ihitlrr lo Mr. Iloyl. Aldany, July 10, 1820. Dkaii FiiiUNii, # « # ♦ * \y^, .^,.(, l)oardiiirr at Mr. Jones,' directly oppo- site our ollice, ((iilberl Stewart's house,) where wo have very ])leasant lodgings Our departure, from Sandy Hill was so sudden, that we left all our furniture in tlio house, and for the present shall conlinue to board out. As to husiness, 1 have enough to kee|) ine, very busy — chiefly in Chancery — old and new. It would be well enough w(!re it not so long before the cash was realized. Hut it must come some day or other. I think my expectations will not be disap- jiomled. At all events, as I lold you before, I am for the Law and nothing else — and [ regret now that Mv. A an Huron ever thought of leaving his profession, which you know was what put it into my head to leave him. 1 think I siiall make my »lt>biit at .Vugust term in tlie argument of some motions and cases. Though as to the last I am rather sipieamish. I\lr. \ . H. is certainly very desirous lo assist me. Jle has sev(n"il heavy causes in wiiieh he insists on my speaking. I liki! Alhany aliout as little as yon do — and, villi the rxrcpt on, of n few ■prrsom ir/io an- iror/hi/ of i-s/niii, have very little to say to the goodlv iniiahilants of this renowned metropolis. I think the eastern junto tlu^ most disagreeable jiart of them. 'I'liey are generally bigots in politics, imd rrry full of prijuduc and run/. jjorenzo is a very fine youth. I have got him at the Latin Grammar, in which he makes uderablo progress. I shall pay ])avticular attention to him. 1 have paid $ l.'Jo f(U- the order to the Register, so that you owe me 25 cents. My compli- iiienls to Mr. Harker, iVi-. Yours truly, 15. F. BUTLER. Post mark, Albany, Mar. 8. Mr. r.onnto ffoi/f /o lu.t /irotlur Jr.tsr, at \0 Wall .ftrrrt, Nrw Yorli. Alranv, March 7, 1824, Sunday evening. Deau HiuiriiKU : — Yours of the Itli came duly to hand. The substance of it 1 had anticipated, as I saw a letter that Mr. Tboiniison received from you while here, in which you spoke very discouragingly as to the result of your application to the (\irpovatiou. luu as T had not heard iVoiii you since, 1 had not eiilirelv despaired until 1 received your last. It is now, I suppose, known to a certainty that you cannot succeed in getting the oJlice you sought. If a person has nothing else to drpeiid upon atioiis of pari //()(//■ ,'^irrirr.^ siiiiir li/Zli: ofl'i jiears that the variance. VV long as wo n in till! next III a little, vvliich us I should n( 1 understoo be up again h /////( (ihnii/ flid I'm nil.1, nii/sil) DICK OF LI FKKFKCTJ. Jli') DOES JV i think, and Legislature ad where else aiK order of tin- di nientioii I'ticii and iinproveiiii lioiisi.'s at the th(! summer 2( is dec'idedly fo feel very muef going somewli give me ;iiiy in lie is constant!' The Senate' THR POOK Tin: been almost vc as often as pos Extracts froi 21th, 182:!.—" siller beyond ( ofcvrry prinrip thi' that a man If hy any ens ohidin a sihi(i/io I'Lxtract of a dated Albany, i company you t(_ than once, 1 be shall linrc a cas jauiii of plcasim Jesse Iloyt, Esr ;in Examiner in iJI.CKTAIL T, '■■ivur ; I thereA * Slraiiffp (Jortrine hr.cj in CaldL-r Qiiiip MORALS OF h. HOYT— N-0 HUCKTAFL NO BERTH ! 33 =. ;^vr "*'■'- ""'-:-■' "=^^^ s:* E" ^ I understood Mr. TluiiiiDKon ' 'lilnl- Wit, iiiifpfiiiiii i tim.k, and hiivo thouffl.t till winter, that it wonld l.c best lor mo .,ri,.r ,l,„ am iiiiDrdvi'Kwii.i M,. I 1 1 ^'<-'u oi'n (. ift J iidvc m \i('\v, ceoiKunv mmmmmm po.nrr .son.ouhoro in th.. Wostorn conntrV to sell, n ml 1 IT^ ' ""*' ''' jr.ve me any instrwlion ,n „,v ^tndieri f I^t ,v m!- ,,le, iT- •'f'"" '° li.;;s eonstantly en^a^ed in Ins own bJliJcS^' ^" ^^"^'" ''""""' ''^ ''' '"'^'^"^'^ TH ^oo'THive'lUSve: 'I'T' 'f *""7'-""; ^"'^ "" '^-'" -i" '-a, it as been,alnl™:^d S"mr;or^. 'is: ro^lle^^^^vL^ r"'/;" ^ ''=^^^ as often as possible. 'My love to all ^ """''^ '''''''' '"^ lours affectionately, L. HOYT Lxtraet ol a letter, Lorenzo I Toy t, at Albany, to Jesse liis brother in N York r IT . -r, JPostmark Albany, March 26, 182— .1 Jesse Iloyt, Esq 40 Wall street, New' York. Mo'nday evening. in Vx-orv,- • < .f ^'' •'^"yt'— I ^^''S unable to procure the annointment of W-ird a SLll'lllillg I Albany Even " The peop Jes.-e Moyf as till! advice of Win ocprwhd, ri'sp msi'ile tn, for till! otficp, de.'iciiuKaes of wim iiliiiosi an exercise (f his In the same Explosion," ' " It in:iy 1)0 !li:i( It uo'nld I a niiiKid sp'ii' th 111 .Iks.sk H( IJiit the Adii ill lino. Tlie \ D(!|iosilcd to tl Ml. .lesse Hoy liiilled lo kee'p ill di'posiie lo \ Wi; .iiiid his: Iif'iird ol' prol'i: i<.r. wlioii el ,se that llie iiionev Olloiul liril, Slo, of till! moiiey piMidcil (oiiii|ti lii'iirlit, mid \s (; Jil'H K.\ li;i(l I)C( ' fud would h u liii! w lii'c by too iimcli .iliiu Viin Hinenisin f^iili'niiiity of a Hoyt jio (Hit Id the vitjtiiii of llu Mr. Van Bur as early as 182" not quite so cer Washington, DORSEMENT rrinrnn So, f Hj C'A.SE, HOW] you all sorts of RODBEBS IK THE STROM BOX— TIIRin SLEEPfSO PABTSEBS. 35 U Mjl porvc,_,hrir8 pmvcr .n,l pi.|f_|,(,iri„,i,m, il,,, ,v,.||arc „f li.e million, iFm ch,„u,w ,h. p„bi» „.„_„,,,„,,; h:;;^';1;;S :;;;,=^^^^^^ .1 111 iiiuH burpris". 1 he lollowing corrcsnoiw (>iicp viill ..v.,i.,ir. ..Ti , " ^"'""y Evenin? Journnl, Wednosdav, Mnv 1, 1843 :t: .";v:/:'::rl;;rL^^;w; r ::s "^,:;;'pii"V':r ^^'■'' '^t '^" "'""^^^ for th.i otH.:o. wlii,h in Mr V,. IW, C .• . • I'^'d one poculiiir .|m;.I,H, Hii„a uv,, ,,/.,as7 .„,/■,/ 77. .V '• KoW- / 1"""''' "'"' "''"t;''''^' '"'''■"''"' "'"""-''■. /'« ti^;;'; «:n;ld\::'::t;,';;;!^:;;:!:'i';:: ^;[:;i;;y::- -p'-r'^v - -nn.red to p,edict i.'d of;tn;-i^:^::'u::,';^:,l,"z?K:S';;:: :rn f"i:""v^r^'^^ - tii.t the money «l,i..|. V,n. liuieni.n. sc,-nt,.„., lino,, 'd, r U r I , r'"'' """' ol the money witlih.^ld l)v Mr IIoyt „.> n 'Vf "•• '"'"'^^ "'"t " '•".i:" P'opoMioii V..n H.,renisM, flirkers in L soclu-t, e,," U,e H 'p ol^ ' ' l'','''' ^^"V"'"'"' -l-rnnity of., Ren,ovnl,is en.u.e, i.H„V be Pen e ' r -i 'v"" 'W "'" "'"''j tho vi.:,iu. of ll,e~fornieV:" ' ^- '••""'"^'"'—tl.e luuer, in our jud.M.euf. Senator Van Burnn to Mr. Jrssc Ilovt, at N. Y CASE,- HC^WEVEkr'K^ nSJ ^^^,^t S^'^i/J^-- - '^'". V()KU you all sorts ol' happ.ness, I remain yoursincere InL" ^ ^""^ ' ^^ "'""^ M. V. BUREN. 36 VAN BUnEN S I,ETTEUS — MILLER VS. NOAH. WaMhinalon, FpI). 3, 18'J7.— My l>ar 8ir.— This will be liniulcd to you by Mr. Davis, iiiTfiil ot' lilt! rdiKir dl' tin- National 'i'clfyra|ili, who visiin our (Slate to ob- tain subscribers lor llial painr. Any as.si«tauco you cuii uivr liini in promoting his object will bu gratefully renienibered I y lliv nlilur, and oblijre Your Irierul M. V. IM'IIEN. Albany, Juno 2d, 18-22. Dear Sir — I wish you would pay my o/(/ /V(n(^/ Mr. Caller what I owe lum, tiiiil fis/. luni to --'l, eliarginjc p:iriy, lor .•§; 7( Cliiitoirs frieiu! ;iiid called wiln Dr. Secor t( him — said he s Cliiildii, that tl lliMt be wished uhi'ii he applie Mr. CliiiltMi's f I'Mses — put his Cliiiloii, would .Noah's [iroposa |i:iper returned Dr. Secor, and \ at another time. and active politi Mr. Noah wa As far back well understood liiMi in all the his superior in t tcr of a ciu-rupt iiis wages and r to limi what cou Miv always in th lor money or foi aide to oiler an t of veracity, havi l)e^rs to Mr. Noti Mr. Van Buniii 'oirdon Ueunett, i':ir to oblige his .Mr. N'oah is a U'lio now is, and iriiise of an Inspi character we tak( the hand of Coj (jeiieral Jackson. "The paper cal (ho atfaiis of Peni ,'i"' corrnptiiis- put iloes not feel'di.-pf himself to the unj reiisons which lie i to bestow on hiiii . _ Mr. Van Burci !ollowers, with th 'Wilt, the people : Under the editi stated, that the S( "out suit,) says, ?ate the affairs o NOAH's manual EXERCrSE— NAPHTAM PHir.MrS. 37 P^iiy. (or $7»lO(), almiul..,, his pres-s and m ii \. 1 V l '"""•< l"'>onian Cliiitoirs fri.mls roifetcl his ( (liT Mr M •7*'^^- ^/"k, an.i Hiain^r that Mr, ni.Uon.that the ali:, Ir ^^ '"'^''''y r.-sp.cto.l Gov. uh- h.. appiH.,1 ,;!r a:o£'„.lw ;;.;,'; 1 li"";'.! '"?' '"■"•"'"'' ^"'" i::-'s-,.ut in. propoj:ri;: i""Jt!.::',r";t;i ;;:'.''; '"'^ •i7'r';''"r ' liiiloii, would make no r.led.r,. I,,:, ,n, •'•■"1 \\li..t lir could do tor Mr. X.Kd,',s proposal wi. h, I r .;, • . "!'.v """" " '""■•^' '»• •^•"'' '•"«'• Mr. I''-. Seror, an.! Noal. tncd o Jh w '^ ,' '" '•""•"'•"rat.on of ,he evidence of ^" ='""""■'• tiiu... 1- . iur a r o d H , , m '',"•' ^^'^•'■''/^"''"'" representation linn in all the prolli.ratT Ir oener I v ' . 'T''"''','" ''"''' ^^"=''' "^^^i^ l)i« superior in the va7 i j nt .n i ' "^ ' «I'-'R« •"' a pohtieal adventurer. He is f- of'a eorrnpt and ^.r;:';;;;';;;: ^'"^^^ '"^'"^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ -»-- -^^J eharac. ins waireH and must e-irn tlw.i,. i> .".'.' i- '•■, " * ^'^'^ '"'■'* received tn hi... what eo e Inn ,r s, I,,. m " "' P"',"?''"' '^ '' P"'''^«">' """'^'terial -••■ ^.Iway. in the Jillr" vtui d S "'h e'i ^"r"' ^'^'""« l- possesses, l"r iii.Miey or tor olliee With 7.n .1 '.''"' '"'1'"^ '"^ ''i' ,'^. '"' '« «'vcr ready to work ■Mv to oi Ir an aSuate rev r^ n J 1 , ■' '""• ^'.^"■^'"•■l"'" ^''' «''rves all who are of veracity, have hSlj ; , u ^ (I'T , T ''"'";'"' '•"""l>^i^"'. ='"•' want li'-ars to Mr x\oah's oo tr-.i ^ t 1 ^ l";i-liaps the stron^r resendilanee ho Mr. Van Hum" ol 't^ ; £' ,' 'iri' ' ^''"V""'"^'* "•'"' ^^' ""^ ""•«'«-'"-'ts to '^"- to ol.l.oe hi.Vriend.s iTAIr nLi, '"'" ^'''' '"^''"'^ ^" ^" "^''^'-V "« w,t-.n^;!',.J.l!"^"/ >,';*''^'' lia-s been, a p,.nsioncr on the pnhiic, under the WllO :iii-^e ot" an Inspector in the id '•liaraeter we take from the P iilid'.'.lnhir'x" '"" 7Z ^T ' '"'""" ^'•'"^'-^- ^''^ '!"■ hand of Col. Uuanc /u pJ .^^ ^"rch, 1817, as portrayed hy Cfeneral Jackson ' ^" ^ '''""^' '^'-■"•i^tary of the Treasury under .l.o'a£,.^Tp:;:;;:f,;!::if t^;?'^r;*^- York, "^^7- ^-^ ^-^ip/il„li re:...o„s which ho asii r ed „ r, .cars 'n "'"'"''"' '""'' '^•^^'"''''^ ''""' "''^ ■''^•"'« to beato. on hin, in tha^ palul^di^K^^^'^^^^^I^^J'' ^^' «" '^'"' '"'^"- - -nu, the' people have ieenthri'.t'ers"' '' " ''' "^^^ °' "" ""^'^ ^"^ «-- " staSi^lll^S^hTSS^JS^l^^Vl^^^ii^r' J^^^^^^ ^ ^''- ''''- ''''^ *^ - "out suit,) savs that after 'f,V''-/^"'^>' "' his Repi.rt to Congress, (on the Swart- 3S A $600,000 CHARACTER — NOAh's INSTRUCTIONS. 21st of Auffiist, IHll, for llic stun of $000,000, apainst Joshua Phillips, who had l)i>nn assistant cashier, under Mr. Hwartwout. The suit is still pendinfr." Tho Holieilor thinks that althonijh S. " miy-ht lie, liable for intmii's received hy his casliier, lh(^ cashier himself was also liaiile for this large sum, [$(!()(), 000,] never liavinij paid it over."' I fear that as the laws here are powerless for the ])iinishinent of i.'-crv?/ rei;^7(r,t when convieied, it will i)e just as well to contin\u' the jiension of \aplitali, the falhcr, and to lei his son .loshua l \iseful to vou and serviceable to the revenue, and that TIUIY MHIUT BY TJlKlll JNTFG- RJTY YOUR ENTIRE CONFlDKiNCE. Truly yours, " IM. M. NOAII. New York, March 31, 182'J. Mr. Noah's standinjj, and connection with Messrs. Van Burcn, Butler, Bownc, Allen, llovt, and iheir associates, will more fully appear in tlie course of the fol- lowing correspiuideuce : Jesse Hoyl, I''sq., Counsellor at Law, 10 Wall Street, New York. Albany, Jan'y 20, 1801. Mv Dear fiieud — The l^lector;il Law was to have been taken up in the Assein- blv to-dav There is no doubt whatever that a iiui'tu'ity think it inexix'diciil to pass ilu> bill, and yet they are so hampered by iiremature cemuiit- meiils. (Iik/ iiiiiini of ihtin so i^tuuhd 1 1/ ihiir consti/iK ii/s, as to render it almost mev- ally certain that they pass it in some»sliape or otluM'. Our reliance is on the Senate, and we still entertain strong hopes that it will be rejected there in whin- over t'orm it may come. Still, this is by no means certain, and the greatest caii- linii and prudence, as well as the irreatoi linniu-ss. are reiiuired in jiresenting the suliiect to \\w Senators. \Ve have not been, and are not. idle; on the contrary, if ever miMi labored incessantly, the • Conspirators" and the ' Regency." iS:c.. deserve that praise Mak(> a suggestion to .Mr. Noah, which I trust will not be impropcM'ly ri'ceived by liim. It is simply to suggest that, tuv tho present, the Advoaiti- should not press the claims iu)r descant on the merits nf Mr. Crawford. We have in tho two hranclu-s ol' the Legisl. about lOo nienibers who are thcu-oiigh-going Caucus men. (">!' these a majority, hcyoi'd all doulit, would prel'er the nomination of INIr. Crawford, tin- remainder are for Mr. Clay or Mr. Adams, the sinnlK-st nnnibcr beiiirr for lli(> latter. W l,ili t/usc nun err irii.'ini; /,. ff/.((/r A;/,M':0NCRF,SS10NAL NOMINATION, it is eselets to advocate the claims of Mr. Crawlord to such a iioniinaiicin, it Liui^ naiTAiN' IhrJ if am/ is ii./idc it iiiiiff l'(f! on htm. Besides, by pressing the claims ol' that aentlenian you inciiv tho risk of alarming the feelums and encountering the o]iposiii(in of those firm ami honest men who have gone with us nobly so far. and are williiiff to go with us to tho end. but who are yet unaccountably wedded to Mr. Clay or Mr. Adams. Aiui thoutrh I do not believe they ccmld he driven from the resolutions they have con- curred in. in favor of a Caucus at Washiuatiui. thev mav yet be induced to given warm support to the Electoral Line, if they become satisfied, cii'ier that their caii- liiilates have ik the claims of A mi,'' lo ///' iit(/ ft ri'mliiiess lo kii hiiii' eiiouyii (il III' llie siiccessfi iintiii^s tin IliK II s.w/// wiin/(/ Or li'i/ uuliitiinai^f I liiinrii, AND '! niilhiiiir of lliat If llie meetin will 1).', it will till' voice, not e Ills cdlleao-iies, iiislead of injiii li.r/ard hy givin, bill as .Mr. Bow cuiifer with him ' iiiniitril \i\ II talk iiiiieh of ]i (■'■i>si ,s ;ir(^ here II liii Icr, are as oiIkts iu the A Iluiise. I liave nut wri It lias been merit it, and if iln-y h which on rellecli I opened this 1 To J a,, jir. ]i,„vMc. „ ' ,t , , V , . t ;.'.'■ i'',^'- ",■'" "' " '";i;"'" 'i'»'»'-i«'- II "a; ,t'riz:i,r:,™r',',r',',;;i'4 " "■ I'-v';"'"' ■y"™- "-"i .;:d ;;:;-; ° ---^-:»:™"'«« ":^-;i';,,-7:;sJ-;- - te! .rtii-i. o„ ,„„>,';;;„ I :i;i,r„:',ii'„::,';', :';',';„:'''''™""""'° °' ■" '■"'"■■■'' '» "■«-- T I .1 • , Yours tiulv, B F HT'TT FP I opened llus Jetter to show Judge S. "• i • -UL illk. iiliiiia mmMmmsm he cofit -n-v I P,., fn ' ' "'\'^^'^,l''*' "ill"'"" or rather the feeling of all ; on :'h n iu, h fir '"""• "''r"'*^^ '"= '«' '^''^- "'"''- on'ter some s t f soas, they must excuse me from not wri.ingTs often -Is iSdIvish '""' '''■ ^""rfaend, M. V. BUREN. M. M. Noah to Jesse Hoyt, at Aihanv. 40 NOAH GRUMBLING — VAN BUREN TOO SANGUINE. mi/si'lf as iinhnnd.wmrh/ f rented by those from whom I Itad a riff lit to expect a (HJferent coxirs-i ; und ;im jioKiiivo tli:i1 on thn de'Uth of Mr. Cuiitine there wiis but one voice ill tny fiivoiir. W /iiniififfeiiient and inlriffTir could liiivc been so successfully exerted as to wean UAvay uiy friends or iiiipiiir luy cbiiins, tlien there is notbiiinr to expect from the Jus/ice nf the Ri^pubiic;iM ]);irty. 1 cimiiot hbiiuc Mr. Miiel in wisliiiiir to be secured in the ]);iynients due bini, hut cotisidiri riff the dijjkvlly ice labored und'sr in briiiffinff the Argus in the republican from the Clinionian ranl;s — considi rinff ahu the fortune icliich Mr. Buel has made out of it — I tjiiiik that op])osilion does not come Willi :i pood p;race from him, and that any further svrvielhince over the State Pniiliiij,'- should cease. No oik; knows better than ymnself that there was but one opinion expressed ihrouirhout the Union in r(?lation to the perfidious course of sonic oi'my friends in this ciiy, and but one hope expressed that the (iovernor or Le^jis- ialure would by some public expression of opinion pive those persons to undersiiiiui that my services i(» the ])arty were ajjpreciated, and mv future usefulness reirarded wiih a lavouraldo eye. This disposition certainly existed when I arrived at Albany, but great exertions are and have been made to check this favourable course. I do not concur in opinion that 1 should not run unless certain of being chosen Stale Printer. I am not so certain that I can be defeated — but if so, I am willincr to !;■ zavd a defeat, reserving to myself tin; rio-hi ol' spreading the facis bel'ove the world, and ciliihil the si/slem of peddlinff airay the patronoffc of the State, and above all ascertaining who are my friends ; it is necessary to know who are my friends, for ulterior objects. This course will bring me in collision with the Arffvs, and probably with many warm I'riends of mine who are equally friendly to that estah- iishment, but it will enlighten the minds and ])repare the feelings of the next legis- lature, and they may so act as to do justice to my claims, without reference to shilliiifrs and ])enc(^ calculations — and if it is deemed the policy of the friends of ilini establishment to unite in their attempts to injure me or check my fair and proper views, yon will concur in the uecessity of standing on the defensive and attackiiiff them in return, which though it may do me no immediate good, cannot rcmotelv benefit them. In short, J have been the faithful and zealous servant of T]IE PARTY, and have served that party successfully. If men whom ] have had to contend aff.iinst are now to pronounce on my claims there is an end of further silence — it does not comport with character or conduct to submit to it. Mr. Phillips goes up to get a secii(Mi, authorising legal notices to be published in the Advocate— a patronage to which the ))aper is entitled, and which it ought to receive. There should be but one voice in fivor of it, in a democratic legislature — and H is neccssiin in relation to the President ied i/ucstion. I am persuaded you and the delegation will do the best to carry it through ; and I have only to say that if nothing can be done for me — if I have so grievously sinned as to be spoken of as a candidate for State printer, I hope the friends of the Argus will not visit my sins upon him. At all events, he has full powers from mc to enter into any arranffcment, or come to any understandins, which ?nai/ tend to keep thinffs harmoniously and comfortahh/ afloat and prevent schism and division in our ranks — this on/t/ can be done by acting justly and fairly towards \\Zr <"'wh other. Always, Dear Hoyt, truly yours, M. M. NOx\H. "Old Beeswax" says that the Adjutant General must live in Albany. Will General Hatheway do so ! I ! Should a Senator accept tlie office? Washington, March 6, 1824. Jesse Iloyt, Esq. Drar Sir, — I have received yours this moment. I cannot help what Messrs. Lynch and King may choose to infer from my looks, but the truth is that 1 have at no time doubted of our complete succe.ss. The great influence which was exercised here to prevent members from attending the caucus, and the subserviency iiiid iniiratitude of some who have partaken largely of the favor of the party, were calculated to excite strong feeliufis, which were doubtless sometimes manifest, bu! despondency is a weakness with which 1 am but little annoyed. On the assump- tion that New York will be firm and promptly explicit, we here consider the question of the election substantially settled. Neither Mr. Adams or Mr. Clay nau keep in the f information on whu ill a letter. I will i never were in bette our friends. Dear Sir — The i mcnt. The course coursG not the slight is the " gentleman the chest. My qu Webster ; and whe carried advices froi against mo that I \ sions, and requestec morning after they nothing of this as c( Mr. Jesse Hoi/t elect Stone. Mr. Van fulfor bets. Noa In 1823, though ; wire-pullers of Tan of the city of New serviceable partisan eloquence is not his attorney of New Yoi Xew York, and his for the presidency, , Extract of a lettc " You will have wai sembly] ticket you v friends. They aske a cause in Rhode 'The store keeper !' FjXtracts from a h York— dated .lune 5 Mercantile. Charlei commencement of th office of attorney to 1 may succeed — but I with powerful oppom make a grand .sally u From the same to are not very strongly inelFicient man, and v hy the presiding offici the precincts of those to keep aloof. Our c and are anxiously wa * John C. Calhoun. 6 JESSE HOYT IN THE LEGISLATURE. 41 ^nu keep in the field after the course of New York is possitively known. Vie mjMion nn whuh th,s opinion rr./s, and thr rrnsons in its support cannot be given III a filer. 1 will myself bo easy oi. the subject, and so will our friends here, who never were in bettor spirits or felt strouffer confidence. Make my best respects to o"''f™'"^«- Yours cordially, ^ M. V. BUREN. Senator Van IJurcn to Mr. Jesse Hoyt. Uear |5ir— The attack on the Vice-President* has produced '. Ihc course pursued will cause it to recoil with severity!' ''fhen ie not the slightest pretence for the allejration. Mr. Satterlee Clark of yo I gentleman from New York." My friend Judge Rowan is 45 inches ment rourse IS the tlie chest. very great excite- '" ere is of your city ,, , .. , , --J o- ".. ..^^» ....^■les round wj u . >^ quondam (riend John A. King, whilst here, stayed with Mr. U ebster ; and when he parterl from me I was so sensible from his manner that he carried advices from here which would induce the administration folks to come out against mo that 1 wrote confidentially to Campbell by the same mail my iinures- sions, and requester (reneral Van Rensselaer to look out for it in the Anuriran the mnrning after they left us. The result has I think verified my conjectures. Say 111 haste, your friend, M. VAN 13UREN. Washington, Dec. 30, 1826. nothing of this as coming from me. CHAPTER XI. Mr Jes^e Ho,,t ehcted to the Lesrislature. His brother reports for the Press. Col !^tone. Mr. Van Burcn on the victory of 1828. Anti-masonry. Majorities use- Juljor bets. I\oah s defeat, and opinions of his patron. In 1823, though a stranger in New York, party organization, controlled by the wire-pullers of I ammany Hall, sent Mr. Hoyt back to Albany as a representative ot the city of New York, where he proved a thorougli-going instrument and most serviceable partisan. He made some speeches but they were dull and heavy e oquence IS not his f-orte. In i«24, he made an efTort to obtain the office of district atiorncy of New York, but failed . In Nov. 1828 his patron became Governor elect of .New York, and his party had by this time come round to the popular candidate lor the presidency, Andrew Jackson. Extract of a letter— E. Living.ston to Jesse Hoyt, Albany, Ju'.y 18, 1822.— You will have warm work this fall in New York. If you can get on the FAs- sfiral) yj ticket you will (frankly) disappoint me as much as you have your Albany trieuds. riiey asked here, ' Who is this Hoyt of New York that was engaged in a cause in Rhode Island, with Webster, &c^' 'The store keeper,' said I. Ihe store keeper !' said they—' well, what's this world a coming to !' " iYtracts from a letter— Lorenzo Hoyt, at Albany, to his brother Jesse at New \ork-dated June 20, 1824.-" I have commenced reporting regularly for the mercantile, (.harles and me do it together, as we formed a partnership before the commencement of the session You say you are making a push for the otlice of attorney to the corporation, and I think your claims are good, I hope you mav succeed— but I presume it is doubtful, as vou undoubtedly have to contend «ith powerful opponents, I shall not be much disappointed if you fail-but I would make a grand sa/hj to carry my point this time." Iroin the same to the same— Feb'y. 1.5, 1824.—" The Federalists of your city are not very strong y represented in Col. St„n, of the Commercial. He is rather an inehcient man, and very little notice is taken of him, except when he is cautioned nv the presiding officer of both Houses to beware how he obtrudes himself within ine precincts of those walls, from which he was once ordered by competent authority ■^ keep alool. Our eyes in this quarter are at present turned towards Washington, andUre anxiously waiting to get the result of the caucus. " * John C. Calhoun. 6 42 VAN HI'KKN TO riOYT ON Tfll. VICTORY OK NOV. 1828. i^cnalor C. Hurra Id Mr. Jissi Um/I, X in VorL. Pos^t murk, " Alhy. Nov. H, IHJH. Fnr, ]\1. V. IJuirn." My Di'nr Sir : I tliiink yoii Kiiiccrcly Cor your ncvcriil (•(iiiiinimicMtiotis. Tliry liMvc hiTii ;i sdiircc (il Imili |i:iiii mikI |i|r;isiirc tii iiK — llic liiltcr (in accoiintor llicir confciils, iiikI ihc (oiiiin- (in iiccdiiiil oT the cxtn'mc (lililciilly 1 have liiid to umko out whiil llirir conlfiils wcit'. Voii would cntiiiiily concct this, if you knew how cxlrciiu'ly |i:inirul i» is to your friends. I would have written to ytui Ixlore, Itut have had no lime t it my meals. My house has I n run down hy my iVieiids, atone moment flushed with victory, and the ne\t t'riyhte I out (d' "their senses, and IVeijuenlly without cause for either. i.ayiuM ijie ellorts u\' Anti-masonrv out of view, ami of which we have as yet luil uiuch iieymul ruuuuir, the (declion has heeu a real old fashioned riiiu'ty-ei is the sliirjitest douht of this County. Ascer- laiiied. Cay.iira 1 ascertained. — ('henaiifxo and HnKUui' 1 do. — Tompkins ami ('ourlhmdt 1, not ascertained, hut without the slightest douht. — 17. Now, i have niU time to speak of the chances in the other districts ; you must make them out from thi' papers. For myself, 1 sluuild think irood l,i(.|< idone ivmild {jive us a few more, and I shall he eijreiriously disappointed it we do not, jret -JO iit the very loiist. You need not helieve their storii :i, for they have not the sliirhtcst respect for truth in imtst cases. \Xv shall therefore have votes tMiouirh to iiut .lackson's (declion out (d' all (|uestioii, and WHAT IS ()VKI{ IS ONLY IM- PORTANT ON TiiK scom-; of ufts. Our (ioverui'i- and LiiMit. (iovernor majority will hr iiiiDirnsr. 'J"he (Uily 4 luwiis in Uroome (A ('HAZY COrNTV) have result. 1 SOHFLY HFGHKT THl'l LOSS OF NOAIFS FLKCTION. AS WELL AS ON HIS OAVN AtTOFNT, AS ON ACCOFN'I' OF THF, COST HIS I'U-FCTION HAS 13KKN TO THE PAHTY; hut one point is jiained, viz.: he must he satisfied tliat lust frirmh have, inlh thrir rt/rs oprii, siiafniiKd a arrnt s/rui^^nlr, and run iniirh liazanl on his arrovnl. I hope thrrr will yrt hr sonic irai/ found out of doing sonii tiling for him. T shall he down on Tuesday. In the mean time show tliis to my friends Bownc. Yorplanok, Hamilton, and ramhrelontr. Tell A'orplanck t have no douht von wa« as much frirrhtened as he says, and am (luite certain that yon have, as "much pluck as you claim. Hemcinber me to Mrs. Hoyt, and helirve me to be, Yours cordially, M. V. BUREN. Having, thus, jfiyen theGovornor elect's confidential statement, in the moment n/ a victory which laid the foundation of his power-, so lonsr exerted in the Union fnr evil ; and remindinp the reader of his and Jlr. Butler's opinion of Mr. Noah, know- ing /ii«i as they did— I select this as tiie uppropriatc place in which to record tlieif friend's sentim Noah !— th(! II (ii'ii(!ral .lacks Surveyor of tl uithoul study- never trusted I jirus.soH, and el v. Buren luinc Talk of Aiiro WI13 a broad, b i)y per.Honal cou Biucn'a petty i s(;llish spcciiliit atock-jobhinjj ( riuin I'uvrinj;, sk spirit, purity, ai minds — basking market — plouirj citi/ens — pullin< till of this anibil way to the pres. And arrain — To-day he i;o whose existence rcMcy, to piciise lie enrolls in hia ties of interest > hopes and fears obtain catholic {jovernruent, is t of the Kitchen C When we lool' ancc, his industr and perturbed tl: travels from cou body, comforts t The world wil to benefit this c( W'o answer, no, own advanccmen hi in self ; the spl priate to himaelf lias im place in li pliiudd have hop( great nation .' A Every paper al for the Prcsidone vast machine of i the Union ; they (lent witliout reih to every oilice In ecs.«ion ; they dc fjmund ; the ]>ilo another to breati pnblic opinion, hi jjood opinion of unbiased suffrage fpiirs of men, he lenders, and mak( 1834. noah's picture of van buren. 43 friond s sontimonts rerrardinrf tlmm. Make room, frenlleiiie.i, for the witness, Major iVoah !— till' l{..(T(.„cy-H ( •oiuipil of Appointment made him Hi.'h Sherifl" of N Y — (;rm.ral Jaekson, Mr. Van UnnMi, and liir Senate of the Union appointed him Purveyor of th.^ I ..rl of N.-w Vork-the Supnun., Conrt made him a CounseUor uuh<.nistndy— an.! Ihe whiirs dnbhcd him a. Indue at the Tombs— but the people never trusted hnri— wlien .'n; appealed to their suHVaaes, money, orjranization, hired presses, a.i.l (dec^tioneerintf— all failed. TIk; Iriahman (Shaw) succeeded, and Mr. V . Uuren lainentud " the cost " to the party. From the N. Y. Evening Star, June 23, 1834. Talk of Aaron Burr in comparison with Van Buren ! ! Why, Aaron Burr's ambition W113 a broad, bold, enterpnsnis (he ,00. •''' """ '"'*'**''' '*""' aecotmtnhlo for the rank and file— .iVf. M. Miah. Star, Oct. 44 CHARACTERS OK VAN BUREN BY NOAH AND OTHERS. MARC The same M. M. Nonh ihat wrntH the above on the one side, imblished on the 20th of Fuh. 1H^>8, iiH foUdvvs, on t'otlicr : " Tho nldicans of the old school." When shall America cease to encouraye, sanction and a]i|ihiiid the Noiihs, i3en- m.'tls, l$nih'rs, ^ an Ihirens, lloyls, and (,'roswells, who thus make sport of the dean st interests of a lovely country ? " Solomon says somewhere or other, I think it is in Castlcvetro's, or Castleniiovo'.s edition — is not there such a one '. — that the infatuation of a nation for a foolish minister is like that of a lover for an uply woman : when once he opens his eves, he wonders what the devil bewitched him." The quotation is ft om Horace Wal- pole, and althouph it is well understood that Mr. Tan Buren is determined to leave no stone tmturned lhat may be in the way of his serving out another four years, yet we would fain hojie that " the magician" will be no more able to bewitch Columbia. I was rather astonished, in 1841, to see the following description admitted as a communication under the editorial head of the N. Y. Evening Post : " Mr. Van Buren has little moral faith of any kind; barely enough to need no arti- ficial e.vcitation of body or mind. This deliciency drives him into an artificial code of political practice, in which lie refers all social actions to individual interests, and all political actions to combinations of those interests. He believes fiinily in the force of maiuigement, or the cool, considerate, artful application of general propositions to the e.xisting temper and opinions of the masses, as far as these can be ascertained, and without any leading reference to their propiiety or durability. His generalization of social phenomena never reaches so far as to a moral power, or necessary truth in public opinion; but he simply deals with the collective opinions of men, as manifested by the representatives, or otherwise conspicuous individuals fiom or aniong the peo- ple, by tneans of certain easy rules anahigous to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in aiiilimetic He belongs wholly to the present time, and may be said to represent /corfini,'- or business politics. He is the very impersonation of party in its strictest features of formal discipline and exclusive combination. He is ceremo- nious, polite, reserved in manner, very small, and extremely neat in pcrsoi " CHAPTER XII. Letters, by Gov. Van Biircn, and Messrs. Camhrekng, Coddivgton, J. A. Ham- illon, Inshnm, Dndlcy, L. Hoyt and Bitthr. Tit Hcallh Offici — Drs. Western It, Havens, Mauley, Mci\er(n. " The party'' saved by a doitor. Mr. V B. afraid of Col. Pitrher. Jes.^e Hoyt and the IJist. Attorniy's plaee. Coddivgton ojjke hunting. He is ready to abandon Jeichson and the party, if, <^e. Hoyt, Bvthr and V. B. on office. John Dvir in danger. On plighting faith to Mr. V. B. V. B.'s friendship for W. A. Duer. ["2 sheets, charge M. V. B." Post mark, " Albany, Feb. 8."] Private. Albany, Feb. 1, 1829. Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Counsellor at Law, New York. My Dear Sir, — I am distressed by Lorenzo's accounts pf your affairs in New York. When will the Republican Party be made sensible of the indispensah they succeed tl ill a decree pla iilijirtion that i C/i Illon Bill, a except Charles your city vote, Uis, and Mr. A upon you not i Make it a poin him thett 1 havt imnts, and hop of Dr. Westerv and much was especially from State, i shonl tribute to his m^ Family, and a 1 live years Depu mentality of Di uiuvearied and i the station but a I could do for 1 myself that Dr. station. I cann admitted ; and 1 which he broun pathy for him w Mr. Clinton was officer, and was removal if made Jackson man at Butler feels le I had promisee Jesse Hoyt Esq. Dear Sir- ground. Some \ by letter requesK bation, replied, tl interfere. Brons .MARfJY WAS RIMN HIM. 'i tion. which it bee Hutler of th3 imp My friend Campl have Manley rei advice, therefore. Federalists who i young man who, times— who has : A r THE HERf prompt stand tab WOl'LD UNDC very doubtful wht with the oppositio rejected. About ^vi!i fail. If so, ] and have done al part) in his press MAUcy SAVED FROM RUIN— WESTERVELT DEFEATS PITCHER. 45 the indispensable necessity of nominating none but true and tried men, so that when they succeed thoy pam somethu.jj ? The same game that is playingVhl yj, S u, a degree phiyed here on the nomination of Attorney Genera . 'll on I "XS .™ f- 1 '^"I'.l.^"'''"'^^ 'Y T'^ <'li"tonian in both hous.s voted aga , i /m except Chales Livingston of whose vote 1 am advised. Mr. Ji. depended mZ' your city vote and wouh have succeeded if he had got it. ( 'argiil Ar o d A bur tus, and Mr. AlkMi, voted for him-beyond that uothmg is kntv, . must insisl l?r/r. TT'°"'"^; '"y "'"^^ *" connection with ^this subject i. any brm MakcH apouit ,/ ^ou phase to src my goo,1 frund CODDINGTON and sa^ m nibate to his memory. W estervelt is a genUeman and a man of tabu of a V i^ Family, ami a Democrat from his craclle."^ He was three years n t e lio phal' 3 live years Deputy Health Ollicer, until he was cruelly removed 1 r ugh t rinst'u mentality of Dr. Harrison, who, to my knowledge, owed his a . ,o mme t to X unwearied and incessant perseverance of Governor Tompkins. H vens h s been S he station but a year and has never seen a case of yellow lever in i s hfe AlTtha . . f ih°, {^^ w" ^'"^ ,^' ^'r "°^ ^ ^•^"•^^ *"^''d in the world ) was to ati.?J m>^elf that Dr. Westervelt and the Board of Health would retain him in his present Sled • a'n^l "b Z'''"''! ^'^ ^^'"'^-^- "'^ extraordinary capacity is i hS y u ^r^h hp h, M .P?'^'"'y' ^"'1 misfortune in regard to the new Medical College u Inch he brought into existence but failed to get a place in it, has excited a svin P hv or him with medical men in all parts of the State of unprecedented extenT Mr. Clinton was so sensible of it that he once actually nominated hfm for aSa #ce,', and was upon the point of doing it again the very week when iTd ed His removal tf made cou/d only he placed on poMcal grovlds, andasVu-asa-zcalo^^^ iJutler teels less than anv of his friends. ""it/. T L 1 Yours truly, M V RT'RTTVr I had promised not to interfere and did not. ' ' •"^"•^^^• Jesse Hoyt Esq. Dear Sir— Tt is impossible to judge correct! v without a view of the wbnl« pround. Some two or three weeks belbre the meetinrr of the Le^i^h^ure S?l^ lion whi.L ; K '° circumstances gave color to the clamour about Albany dicta- on. which it became necessary to respect. No one was better satisfied than Mr liutler of the impolicy and positive impropriety of my interference as maUers stood »,ce,ed. Ab.„. one .hircl of thj Senate are .tJ^TZ't irSS L° fS,'",™ •J k,™ 1 •« t"" °°' """""I" Havens. I have been very Iriendl, to him »nl ill,-™' '" *",""" MC's^y 10 secure him (with good eonduct oi, Ss m) m his present plaee, and I ean never lend my»lf tolromotoSe views of 40 AIJ, AROIIT THE 'LOAVES AND KIRHES.' .1. I. those who cnalesco with our cnnmics to siiPrilico Republicans who stay at homo, aud trust to thi'ir triciids ihiil llit-y ">'iy tfi't their ]:' "ea. / sluni/d not hare tiiirn Manlii/ the offiir orii^innl/i/ if I could litirr found i coinpcfint Rrjmlilicdn to take tt. IJut l)einu |iu]c()ni|)etent iiud poor I eould not thiuk it propi-r to remove o,.e (Iliu- touian .);iciiH(iu niiiu to put in ;inotlier. Dr. MrSrrrn was Ins oirn only coniyditor. 'I'arjree iuis had as little to do with the mutter as you have, aud less than Mr. Hloodirood, i>r about as much. I ref^nM. the state of atliiirs with you. It will work itself (de:ir iu the end. The ireueral remedy is aii alteration of lli(Mim(M)f your charter eleelious. Helieve nu' to i)e, very sineerelv your friend, M. V. r.lIllKN. Aihauv, Fel). H, IHOi). JJarluM' yesterday jiresenled his lormal eomplaiut ajruiust tiie Uecorder. Jlo be- haved with ,',freat propriety, yiui must say nothitii,' of my views iu regard to Havens. (Post mark Washinfjtou.) Washintrton, 7 Feb., lH-2!}. Dear II. — I have your lettt>r for the Major [Noah,] who has not yet arrived— when he does he shall have it. Whin thr trnir nunrs to Ktrilic theni is no man for whom 1 would do more tiiau for luir frieiul Mr. C |(Joddini,niui,] U(uie deserves more, than he does. Yo\i are mistaken — Ohio is for itself. 1 exptM't soon to hear the result of your balloliuus. Very truly yours, ('.(;. CAM lUlKLKXG . New York, Feb. i:Jth, 1829. Dear Hoyt — I havi" seen Al. ('oe, ho has siirned in your favor, makiu>r five ; and he informs mo then? is no doubt of y(Uir fretlinfj the eight that voted for you in caueus — and in addition 1 havi; no donbt you will get Jjce, which is all that is reipiired. You no doidil remember what I told you three weeks before the election of Mayor, 'I'hot liou^nr must and should hr the Mayor — that I srldoni failal in what I undcrlook in nirnrst (i)articularly for other people — how it will be with myself I know not) in thr win/ oj' iiolitirs. 'The result will be tiiis in the end. You'll be District Attorney and Sherman Clerk. Noah's having gone to \Yashiugton, several of those who voted for him in caucus have let't him, under the impression he will get something there. His claims are certainly far greater than Sherman's and 1 have not the least doubt he would have suceeediHl l)ut for this impression. You may rest assured I siiall leave nothing undone that can be done fairly and honorably to promote your interest. ticneral Dull' tJnnMi was elected Printer to the House on Trusday by a majority of two votes, and tieueral Jaeksmi was in the neighbourhood and expected in Washington on \Yediu>sday. I observe that our frimd Silas Wriiyht, Jr. Esq., has reached Albany. I want ymi to go with Cargill and Arnold to the Chancellor, to Judge Marcy, the ('om[)ir(dler, and Secretary of State. If they do not liki; to sign my naked application, you'll please draw up a joint letter /'()/• //('w/ to sitxn in. my j'aror, addressed to our two Senators in Con^t^ress, stntinl: thei/ are ]>ersonally aciiuainted with nw, and reeonuni ndintr me as a suitable person to Jill the oljiee of Sum i/or and Ins/urtor of the Port of Xew York. This I want you to attend to without delay, as they may get committed. Recollect that T. L. Smith (the Calhoun man,) is a candidate — don't let him or his friends know that I am an applicant until after we get all the signers we can. If any thinsx of interest occurs I will write you again. Yours truly, " Jesse Hoyt, Esq." ' J. I. CODDINGTON. We had uud see in this niorr Alderman Ce liiin, and is will ( '(donel J{obe from \V asliingtc Van Uuren's be I have availed iinur (iideon Tu 12ic. P'm'k. Hoyt, Esq., J Dear Sir — T ai Irarn that Mr. 'I impropriety of y wlii!tlier liom 'l\ It is not a now other stales, by | I remeinb(;r sij I was at Albany, Members was no ollurs from gcttii I shall be perft |)r(i|)er to adopt. IJefon! tlie rec( (liiy. Ho asserte He cannot nor I calliul to day per, and informec (would to-day bi morning,) and en getting that numl I observ(^ you Washington. — W As I have got Al two Senators frc Miiir (General) t( ImU as yon say no If be has not si I have one mon prohiibly leave Al in a long letter fiiiifidential letter .'nekson Cabintit i \ . B. — he then w " I have to renc as near as you car " P. S. 1 open \ Km was that Gen. Address, " Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Albany." Per G. Tucker, Esq. '• SUNDAY morning. ^ New York, Feb. 10, 1829. *• Dear Hoyt, — We had a full meeting THIS morning al Head Quarters — Al- derman C. of the first was there — also Judge 0. (1 mean his brother Jesse,) Capt. Coffin, &c. &e. Per Mail— "Jessi eents, red ink. " Confidential. My dear Sir— My interview wi .1. I. CODDINOTON— DKMOCRACY AS HE UNDERSTOOD IT. 47 V\ela,l und.r ccnsideration the Major's letter from Washington, which vou'll .n. m tin. n.orn.n^. .s K„.,u,n.r-al.o yo,.r n..minati„„ for District Attor^ev Air f/,rjh,>u/s of several of the (.'ountry Membe Sthe winter ,.r!,;'"ll.';:d,!;f '^''^ ''^^"''"' "''^' =^"y ^"-- y^- --^ ^^y other fnends may think .l;i"'''lIc'ten.Hi'l.l,lirtl\'=.''' ''^'r. ^ ^^^ ^'- ^'- "f ">« 1«^ «" Change yester- (u\ lie asstrted boldly that he would support you for District Attorney lie cannot nor dare not back out -«^'»uiti .luorney. W^,sllimnn;/"vVh'^' '' ^'P' ^ '""'•^■^ ^''^^^ ""f <'"''"d the Governor is going to Uasluugton— VVhy even our opponents know it here. . ^ ^ As 1 have got Allen and Hopardus, would it not be well enough to aet"on'r c^lh^Y If be has not signed should like you to get him. Your friend J. I. CODDINGTON. ^"!SdcSJSS;^;m'^l'M''';t'r'V",:"'''' '■ '■ ^^"'^'""^ton says he has had a ."J;,. r'.u.-. ".'''"" -l^^-' ••* <^-' ^-ish "' announcmff who the members of the Codd'n bids Hoyt take the list to Gov< .|;irks()ii r'abint!t were (it was correct) t . n. — he then winds up — .n^J^y^rissuivrBu^^^^ ^",ftl!'l;i'Lir' ""-^'' ^^"'•' ^*''^">'-" Po^t-"-^!^-^ N. Y.. 89th M.arch 1?^ "^'"mhe^kw T. • . . New York, March 29th, 1829. My dear bir— I have received your favor of the 25th My mterview with Mr. Van Buren waa not quite as satisfactory as 1 could wish 4ft OFFICE HUNTING — COODINGTON READY TO REBEL ! or indnod h;ifl :i ri^ht to expect, after hearing what Silas Wriglit, Jr. said to Arnold I will cxpiaiii I'urlhc^r when 1 soi- y*'"- It 111(11/ (ill nil! riri/ irrll, lint J am prepared to hear ofNorili, nr Ilertnr Craig rcccie- iiil; the (ippointnient . You IK) d()iil)t li:iv(! iicard ere iliis that Major Svvartwout, of llolioken, ia to hn CoUi'cior of New ^ ork. Hi' l(dd iiii^ ho himself. TliL' (ti'iicral liad proiiUHcd ii to liiiii, |)rovi(ii'd he could maUe ci-rtaiii arranpc mciits, which he says he very aoon accouiphshed, and S(!Ut on — and uxpecis liis (^oinmis.'sion on 'I'M/sday morninir. Ihit notwithstanding all he says, Alley, Fish, and otiiurs donl helievc it, or rather wont Ijclieve it. Frank O^^den, it is said, will (fo to Liverpool. You well recollect that Catnbreleng exue.etx this iiiniointinent. Thus (if true) are TWO OF THE VERY PEST OFFICES in the gift of the Government GIVEN TO PERSONAL FRIENDS, and without even consulting his CaJiinef. There is considerable dissatisfaction here that Mr. Van Buren was not at Wasli- infrton sooner. Messrs. Haili^y, .Vlley, Bloodpood and Fish, and others, called on Governor Van Buren on Monday, and expressed to him what they deemed the wishes of the Party—- that Thoinj/soii, l)u' r, Jj-c. ought to lie removed. The Governor told tiiem that he had received a long letter from you rcspectine; removals — but parlieularly about the District Attorney. It IS said ('. I). CoMeu is a candidate forDuer's place. If so, there is another personal friend of the General's in your way. IF THE PRESIDENT P/.RSUES THIS COURSE THE PARTY IS RUINED, AND THE SOONER WE BEGIN TO BUILD UP A NEW THE BETTER.* Let mc hear from you again soon, and believe me to be yours truly, J. I. CODDINGTON.t James A Hamilton, Acting Secretary of State, Washington, to Jesse Hoyt, at New York. Department of State, March 10, 182!). Dear Sir — I have with pleasure received your letter. As to Mr. Duer, I will say to you, as I said to his Brother-in-law Mr. Bunner — " While 1 am not called upon to make an edbn to displace Duer, his conduct on an occasion of great feeling and delicacy, (the controversy with Mr. King about the ' Hamilton Papers") was not such as to occasion regret to me if he should loose his otficc, or to induce mc to turn a finger to retain him." I agree xcith you entirehj in the propruty ofmaking chnngn FOR THE REASON YOU SUGGEST. With very great regard, your friend and servant, JAMES A. HAMILTON. Franked, S. D. Ingham, Treasury I)e])arlment. "Jesse Hoyt, Esq., New York." Dear Sir — I have received yours. The District Attorneys have \isually been recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury— but often the applications have been made directly to the President. * Coililiiiirloii .iflrrwunls srol tlii' N'ov Yorls Posi-cillke. Il is evident llial pelf w:is Ilie nilint; principlf wilh lilin. Hiiil il iioi lec'ii, ho wmilil iicil. Iiuve lireaiiil of ili'Hei'liiii.' llinKe lie li^il acled willi. ami eiiilciiv onw'S to raise a mutiny in the repnhlioan camp, liecaiise (ieneral Jacksen had uiven away one or twn nut "I fid.l.Mil nllices. lie is fnnd el" intrimie and manaminenl, lienee hi.s friend.-iiip fur Van Hiiren. At the Slli nl Janiinry dinner, at Tamniany Hall, tliis year, his toast was "Governor Van I5tireu~/a'8 Jjdditij as a jiur (i,si//i— his talent and iuteitri'iy as a slalesnian. Iiave si'cnred liirn the chon'e (d'lhu people.'' t Thil .Alessrs. Coddniclonanil Swariwonl were upon as iulimale and friendly li'rins wilh each other as Messrs. Swart wont and Hoyt. at the time when ('oddin;;lo[i tlncalened to mnliny and huild up a new party to oppose Jackson's measui-es. is evident from the folUnviu'-' anions other private letteiM: Mr. J. I. Coddineton. to Collector Swartwoul. New York, May fjth. 1^'29. Dear Sir— Mr Isaac Warren is /Ac Old Demmratic RpimliHctni in whose favor I s|)nke to you someliim; since. He has been trying to zci an appoinlnicnl fmin Mr. 'i'lioiiipson. the last seven years— and !ii'|r iif may now succeed. Mr. White and ."Mr. IMcDeriuuti have also requested mo to speak to you in their favor for a situation. / hatt also to request that so ahle and cllicienl an oflicer as Mr. Nathaniel lUnit moy vol be removed. Yours most respectfully, J. I. CODDINOTON. As to the H'. com.'s us to sjjt stood — the forii E.\cu8? shori Washington, Jesse Hoyt, Es dated the !)th in cxcepli ig youit .Vtlorney. Mr. odii'c in quest io Buren will, of ( hive written. ,11 1 !asi from oil adjourn this dm no doubt, be an The ap|)ointir act on are of a i your faiihful ant P. S. I shal most probably. Mv Dear Br of District Alto Duller. It seen with her about t ever. What the come to no detei opinions and feel tcr sinc3 he saw conversation betv and Mr. Butler t li3 now says, wh Duer. He thinl sjoh arguiTients, feeling of resent IN THEM TC o')servcd, on the that morning, an( I further understi Before much had in. I am a good h". will not lend t John Duer. He 1)9 his real or pre interest ; Init stra iw'isure, is the on qffii'c within his di ought then to pre struggling for the benefit of our opp From the maimer inclined to think, Mr. Van Buren far as Kinderbgok OFFICE SEEKIXO THE DUERS— FOLLOWERS. 49 As to the sovonl particulars notiro.l in vour favor. I can only sav that it be- stood — Ihc tdrm'T camuit be. Excus? short letters— necessity compels me to be very brief. Washington, I, Marel, "2'.K ''"'" ""'""'^' '''• ^^ ^^'^'"•^^^• Jesse Iloyt, Esq., New York. Wa.sh.noto.v C;,tv, March 14, 182Q. in,,i .1 . n// nol l,r an,, nnwrals Jhu,, ofjlrr hrforv the S,nat, aclmv?n^, a 1,-asl Irom ofTiees in your city, as I am inlormed. Jt was expected that we sboild adjourn this day s,n, ,l,r .- ,„, we meet a..„n on .Mon.lav, when there will, I So no doubt, be an absidute a(l|onrnincnt. The appointmMits are all announced in the papers- '!.e few nominations left to act on are o a imlitary natnre-J}r..vets, &e. Wiii, .peat nvspect. I am. de.r Si your faiihlnl and ob.'d't serv'i, CirA.S. E. DUDLEY mosi probably."" '"'"" ^'"" '''""""■'' ^'*' ""''"" ^■"" '"^ ^'''■' ^""'^ "" '">':^'^3^ ''°"'=' Mr. Lorenzo Iloyt to his brother Jissc. \Tv. n^.„ Tj r, • , Albany, March 17, I62r>. of Ihstrut Attorney amonp the rest, and 1 have seen and read the one to A rv Dur/cr. It seems to me to have been labour lu.st, for at the last conversation I had wt2\ "" ^-V'^ f'"'^""" ^^'P'-'di''""- -I'e seemed as iirm in her opfcsitio as c\er. What they will ultimately conclude about it, I don't know ; thev will probably come to no determination at present. I also saw your letter to Mr. Butler. Hi's opimons and leelinjrs had undergone a great change r,/^out the District Attornn, r> d- tcr sinC3 he ^uv you. I met him in at Mr. V. Unren-s, Saturday afternoon, and iho Td Mr I'i^;', W r'" r ''^■■'l' 't' r''. '^'""^' =^^^'J«"tally turned upon that'sub eo ° and Mr. Butler hen observed , that he began to think quite differently about it ; and Ducr lie tl inks your last letter places the subject on a strong ground ; and t'Lt .uh arguments «r/,/,v..s-.„r/ foMr Van livrm, n-ould l,e rrr, apt 1o /.,nd a nrow L\ THEM TO BE HONEST AND TIUIE TO HIM. Mr. Van Buren a)served, on the occasion that I have mentioned, that he had had a letter from you hat morning, and that you had set about the matter with a very determined s, irit I further understood him to say, that he should not interfere, rsplcially to save Lcr liefore much had been said on the subject we were interrupted by persons ccmipa r;».;/Tf/'7 / «"n'rised that Mr. Van Buren can be neutral in this, and th!t '>' 'tl not kml the utmost weight of hs inflvencc to displace from office such mm as M Ihier. He ought to be satisfied by this time, that that class of men can never )9 his rea or pretended friends, any further than is neces.sary to promote their own I erest ; hn strange as it mm, seem, I do klieee that his fear of the effect of such a m-isiur is the on/y motn-elhat wo,,/d prevent his rorfrrring vpon \V A. Jhnr cm, office wihin his disposal. \ on will probably see him when in New York, and veil oiigtii lien to present your views to him in the plainest manner. If we have been s.ruggling for the success of Jackson and the aa/nisition of political power, for the J-nent of our opponents, I wish to know it, so that J may 'know how to act hereafter. 1 rom the manner in which the President has exercised his power thus far I am inclined ^to think, that he will go " the whole Hog." far^I^'Kinl'^K''T ^''\r'''f '"""''"? f^'^'^^' " o'<^i"^k. Mr. Builer went with him as' lar as Ivmderhgok or Hudson. W rite me. , . Yeius affdiuugnately L. n I i i I oO BROWNSON — SWARTWOVT — TO THE VICTORS BELONG THE SPOILS. [Aildrpsscd to N. York — poet murk Albany.] Jesse Iloyt. V.»-\. All)any, March KHh, 1821). Mv l)c;ir Sir— 1 have not hern riblo to furnish ninnrrilcT \V;il\vort!i with a eopy of 's iiiis'Ar in the (mi \1 :k • viMir suit (i:iin sliLrhtlv, a i:.\|)iM't any thiiir win'lil. havintr m new men ; the travel. I've so] iissiire you if I e I'arry any weisjli but the boast is i 111 New York. In seriousness Mr. Cs;i IN.mp m.iii.U a smart chance of going nomcwhcre, perhaps U) III.' pliici- villi liiivc iriinid or lo Ih- Ihnl. ' Voiir nmii. If you svuut a plaw. is Col. Hamilton. He being now the second ili(vr m the C.ovornmM.t ol the Lniou, atid in all probability, our ne.M l're«ideut \l;k- voiir suit to him, then, and you will pet uh;it vou vviiut. I know .Mr. Ii.e- tiim .•iiiirhth-, and wouM reeommend voii to Fl'SII LIKF, A DKVIL, if vou ox|.i'i.t any Ihinn from ihat (juarler. I can do vou no good in any quarler ol'llie wnrld. i.avin.r miu ity httle lulluence beyond Iloboken. The groat goers are the lU'w men ; the old troopers being :i'l spavimtd and riiiuboned from previous hard travel. 1 ve L'ot lh(; hots, the fet-loek. hip-joint, gravel, halt and founders: aiul I assure you it I e.m only keep inv own ienfi-s, 1 shall do well ; but Tin darned if I can |-:irry any weisrht with me. When I left home. I thouchi mv nag s..mid and airouff, but the beast is rather broken down here. Ill tell youinurc about it when 1 see vou Ml INew York. In s;-riousness, my dear Sir, your support must eome from Mr. Van Beurcn and -Mr. t-ol. llainiitoii; 1 eoiild not help you anv more than your ch'rk ; if 1 had the ability, restiLssured I would do it without prompting. Tell Uoherl Sands that i am ollended with hiinriie promised to write to me and Mr. 11. on business, and he has not done it. My best respects to him. ] shall bo home m two or three days. Till when, do all ybu can to im|)rovc your fortunes, and believe sincerely Yours SAM. SW \RTWOUT Mr. Jesse Iloyt to Hon. Martin Van Burcn. r, a . , Sainrday. 11 o'clock, A. M.. March 21, 1829. L)EAR S5IR,— I am under the necessity id' leaviuff this evening so as to be in Albany Mondav mormnir at the opening of the Court of Chancery, and I presume I shall not be able to see you. The man whom I had spoken to as your ra/r, has f<.illeion to exhibit that failing to vou, m ol tilts you arc to judge. As a genera! rule it is an objection to a servant. ' He IS married, but would leave his family here. This is all t have to say on domestic concerns, and what else I have to say is not upon subjects of lees importance, but whieh you may (and. as the world goes, perhaps justly.) consider as p.-.,-ta\m£r a little ot selfishness— but, as Mr. Richie said the other day in a letter to Mr. Noah, ■■ Mr. \ an i3eureu mus< tell the truth to General Jackson/' So I ought to tell the triitli to you, and T will do so, at tli;j hazard of torfeiting your confidence and good opinion ; lor, it I have it now I am under sc-rious apprehensions that I cannot retain It long without abaudoaing all political hon(>sty, consistency, and " .sVw/i-/,/ fonrard- ws.s my life I shall not spare my exertions to get him out of office, as well as all those who have betrayed their friends, their party, and their principles. In doing this, aowcver, I will not, as he and his friends hare done, vi.date the sanctity of private fuendsiiip and private confidence, but the me.uis I shall resort to will be free from concealment, but shall be open and manly, and upon the same principles th;it lias actuated me in opposing him during the late contest. I shall therefore, if driven to go to Wiishington to prefer my complaints sh:ill go, not as a candidate myself, for I should not then be listened to with us much consideraliim as I otherwise should liccius3 men in power are not prone to look upon office seekers in so favorable a liglit. I hive written this in the hurry of departure, and subject to the interruptions of office business. I have not time to read it over and prune it of any doubtful expres- sions, if any such there be. I therefore send it, subject to any explanations that may be proper to convey my true meaning. So far as I have taken a genera! or special view of the subject spoken of I am borne out by a vast mijority of your political friends in the city, all of whom feel this to be a critical point in your political fate. The tluory of your address to the Committee of the Legislature we all admire— the practice under it, if conformublo to the theory, is all that we require. In great haste, very truly, your friend, J. HOYT Hon'ble M. Van Buren, Wash'n. CHAPTER XIV. Secretary Van Bvrvn's rejdy—Ihyt rhanrcd with rudeness. Who had (he PresidenVs confi'tcnci:. Hoyt's rrjoindrr—he had no inherent lore of office— was no mercenary politician— had been educated hy the Secretary. Curious story of N. Y. office seek- l"f ■ /• '^'■''■■''''■' 1^'a1iti':s. .S^c'?/ Inshuin on Place hunters. Caiiihrekmr's efforts on behalf of Coddington. The Whigs pitied. V. B.'s young tribe. Secretarv Van Buren, Vl^ashington, to Jesse Hoyt, Esq., New York. (Private.) Free— M. \an Buren. ^ Dear Sir— I never expected to see the day when I should be constrained, as I now am, to address you in the language of complaint. Nothinir but my strono- con- viction of the extent and sincerity of vour friendship could sustain me in resistinrr tiic behel that you have a settled purpose to (luarrel with me. Here I am engaged 111 the UK St intricate and important atliiirs. which are new to me, and upon the suc- eesshi conduct of which my reputation as well as the interests of the country depend and which keep me occupied from early in the morning, until late at night, and can you think it kind or just to harrass me under such circumstances witli letters, which no man of common sensibility can read without pain' Your letter to me at New \ork contained many truths, for which I was thankful, and reflections which I thought just, but the whole were expressed in terms so harsh, not to say rude, as to distress me exceedingly. I have scarcely recovered from the effect of "so great m error in juduemeut, to say nothing el.^e, when I am favored with another cpistlo from you, si ill transcending its predecessor in its most obiectionable features I must be plain with you. I have all my life, (at least since I have known you), cherished the kindest solicitude for your welfare, and have manifested at least my i^ood will towards you, and should be extremely sorry to have occasion to chano© those feelings, but it is due to us both that I should say, that the terms upon which you have seen fit to place our intercourse are as inadmissable. It grieves me ex- ceedingly, more tlian you imagine, to be obliged to sav so. When I was favored with your epistle in New York, I had just returned "from an interview with Mr. uowne, in which I had made your immediate appointment as District Attorney, a point that could be no longer delayed. I have since had an increased desire to see It dooe, bav« lakea steps tg BlTecl it, and with the mad that brings your accusatory 54 'l HAVE NOT MADE POLITICS A MATTER OF DOLLARS AND CENTS.' letter, I have information that it shall be done ; but that you are hesitating whether you will accept it or not. Let mr advise you without girinsj; viy nason why, to do so. The story you tell [the word ill(s;ihlp,,] as coming Irom Mr. Hills (a man who it' I know him is without the slisrhtest consideration in society) about the Pres.deiUa ereat confidence in Mr. Berrien, and little in me, is the veriest stvill' that coi.ld bo conceived. The repetition of such idle possi]) constrains me to say, v hat I am almost ashamed to do, that 1 have found the President affectionate, confidential, and kind to the last dejjree ; and that I am entirely satisfied that there is no deprree of jTood feeling or confidence which he does not entertain for me. He has, however, his own wishes and favorite views upon points which it is not my province to attempt controul. Upon eve^-y matter he wishes to have the truth and respects it; and will in the end satisfy all of the purity of his views and intentions. I have not time to add another word. Your friend and humble servant in extreme haste, Washington, April 13, 1829. M. V. BUREN. Mr. Jesse Hoyt to Mr. Secretary Van Buren, at Washington. New York, April 24, 1829. Dear Sir, — I received your letter of the 13. on Monday morning last at Albany, and sufficient time has elaps-d I think to enable me to answer it without indulging ill those feelings its perusal naturally gave rise to. 1 have not now and at no time have 1 had any " siftled purpose to (/narrcl with you,'''' for I have too often quarrelled for you, to be at this time willing to quarrel with you. It would he extremely hvmU- iat'ing to me to be olile^'r/ged to admit, that in all my interco\irse wiih you 1 had not sufficieni sagacity to understand your character ; and it would be no less moriifying to have cause to uisay all I have said for the last 12 years, calculated to adcance your repu'ation as a riiati, and your INTEGRITY as a politician. When I first came to this city to live, your democratic adherents were not numerous — and with- out any vanity I may say that my exertions tended to i icrease the number— and until I have been found guilty of some overt act in derogation of my former conduct I question with great respect your right to make the insinuation your letter seems to co.ivey. As I am not favored with a bill of particulars of my " indiscretions " " error of iudgmeit," &c. &c , I am deprived of ihe power of explanation, but if the plain truth, spoken in a plain w.iy, re:iders " an intercourse inadmissable," then am I CO ite'itio be cut off fiom the world and the friends I have hiiherio been ardemly a;tached to. Eccrij idea I conveyed in the letter you received from me while here werr conveyed more in reference to your interest than my own. and the hingunge iti which they were clo'hed I supposed would hive beeti sutticieiilly softened by the reservation I made at the close of the letter — at least to such an extent as would have protected mo from the charge " of rudeness," which always detracts from the getitlemanly de- ponmeiit I am most anxious to preserve. The political seniimeitt of that letter I still tidhere to. My political priitciples I inherited from a '" lonir line of anrcslors " (such as th-v were,) MY POLITK^AL EDUCATION I AM MAINLY IN- DEBTED TO YOU FOR, and the principles I imhthed from hirlh ;ts well as educa- tio 1 eannnt be eradiated at this lime of life. I HAVE NOT IMADE POLITICS A MATTER OF DOLLARS AND CENTS, NOR HAVE I ADHERED TO PARTY WITH THE HOPE OF GAIN, but I h;tvc libored in them under your itTim?diiie auspicies for 12 ye:irs with tlw leading motive to serve you, but agiinsi the advice of mmy powerful bitsiness friends. During this time you have m3l wi'h occasio.ial reverses, and I believe my fidelity and faiihfulitcss, and even smi". degr"c of efllciency to vou. were never questioned by any one — nor ani I awan^ of having evinced any disposition to shrink from the consequeiici'S of adversity which attended you. If pr-rchance I should now fail to pour out heartless adulation hss copiously than scycophaiiis and intregers who have the good fortune to sur^ round your person at this time, it may be a just ground •' for letting me down ijio wind a prey to fortune." I hive no ambition to be in the train of great me;i. if I am to pa:'Ti!icp. my independence nr to be prohibited in expressing an honest opinion. I frviklv admit Iwrote the letter referr.'d to under some excitement. Iwasussuri'd by Mr Ducrs friends that you had promised to sustain him. My conversation with you at Albany led me to the same conclusion. I had that morning received informa- tion from Albaii l)ehalf of Judge deaiitig from on preni interest y / know the sense cri'et measure y i.ifiUence with tl As I wrote tli without reading purpose of enabi was all ritrht, ai expressed but th and I must the language 1 used moment consider surprised at the i one I wrote cove reason to be diss; !n March. I ma When I tell you lion to you, and you in relation t, 1 am perfectly a\ is no m.Mi living yourself with rep with Mr. Bownt kept out of it. and tells him he date tor the ofTice ttiat you would I man. and he gc wards, &c. & peculiar to that i young Hoffman, defeated. Duer voted for Butler, had become o'mox: old staunch demo surprising that m be as stron^7 as it ed on VVednesda Hoffman and told be removed, and i Mr. Duer had th olTice. He told subject he was " Monday, at Alhai motive it is not di I did state to xM of Attorney for th you, with "any dei in getting up a ea were perfect abort from the beiriiinin and I need not s thotight then and personal friLMid — u body here, of all | ilie infatnoub aitat their nam^s, and i decliae the proffs •l HAVE NO INHERENT LOVE OF OFFICE.' OO I'°"f™"?T ]^^7,t''^tyouhad spoken lo Governor Throop, at ihe request and in bohali oUudge Duer, for \ ice-Chaiicelldr. If ihis was not enough to jus: if v plair dealing from one who had given some pmofs of dcvoiion lo you, ai,d who fji the pr,,Mi ihUresl you_ had at siake. I am at a loss to know what would h:ivo bemi I laiow ihii sense of your parhzans inrehilion to these mm, and I know a more indis- creet measure you could noi iiave adopted, if you desired to vetiiin your power and Influence with tlit^ party to which you have acknowledg.'d obligauons. As I wrote that letter my confidential clerk copied the sheets (I kept a copy without reading over the original or even the copy before I got to Albany) for the purpose of enabling me to shew it to Mr. Uutler. 1 did so, and he remarked that it was ail rijrht, and he was glad I wrote it. lie said the ideas were very stronely expressed but the reservation 1 refer to rendered that harmless in point of laneua-re and 1 must therefore confess 1 was surprised to find that the character of Wo. language 1 used had found its way to your ■> Sensibility," or that you could for one moment consider me guilty of •• rudeness.-' As to the other letter. 1 am eoually surprised at the exception. If these were considered exceptionable, then I fear the one 1 wrote covering one to ^\v. Hamilton would be deemed still more so I had reason to be dissatisfied with Mr. Hamilton for having misled mc in his letter early m March. I may have written the last letter under the influence of that fecline When 1 tell you, however, that I meant nolhinir inconsistent with my former rela- tion to you, and that I shall not hmaftcr ohtnuk athir imj opinions 'or advice vron you in reation to any suhjcct, 1 should hope I had made satisfactory atonement 1 am perfectly aware of the responsil)ility of your situation, and God" knows there is no iTiMi living that would be more gratified than I should to have you acauit yourseJ with reputation I am very much ohkeilged to you for your interference wiih Mr. i3owne 1 shall not get that place, and I can tell you how I was kept out of It. Mr. Maxwell, when he got alarmed, goes to Judge Hoflman and tells him he was to be removed, and that his son, Ogden, had better be a candi- date for the o Tice. Mr. Bowne tells Riker, confidentially and he tells an Alderman, that you would be pleased to see me put there. This comes to the ear of HofT- man. and he goes to all the Clintonian Aldermen of the 4th and 8th ■uards, &c. &c., and insinuates this idea to them, and with all the adroitness peculiar to that family, rakes up old prejudices, enlists Duer, who is attached to young Holfman, with all the coodies, high minded, and tlintonians, and I was defeated. Duer was in the thickest of this. No (,'lintonian m the Legislature voted for butler, save one or two ; not one of the corporation voted for me We Had bcconK omo.rious Jor our srrrkcs in th>. cavse. of anothrr hmkr. There is not old slaunch democracy enough in the Common Council to elect me. It is not then surprising that my inveteracy to that concern, coodies, high minded and all, should be as s roiuT as it is Mr. Duer is now playine the same game that Maxwell play- ed on Wednesday (.lames Campbell authorised me to say so)— he went to .ludic iiollman and to d him that he had such information as satisfied him that he would be removed and that he did not know why his son Ogden should not be appointed .Mr. Uuer had then been informed that Mr. Hamilton had the option to take the office. He told me on I ucsday that Mr. Hamilton could not take it, for on that subject he was " Comiriitted on paper." Mr. Bunner told me the same thing on Monday at Albany. Alter this Mr. Duer goes to Judge Hoflman, and, with what motive It IS not dilficult to divine. uu waai I did state to Mr. Bowne that, as things now stood, I could not i^rcept the office ol Attorney for this County, nor can I if it could be given me, after what I write you, with any degree of honor. I informed the gentlemen who were instrumental in getting up a caucus here on Saturday and Wednesday la.st, (which, by tlie bye were perfect abortions.) that I had no expectations of Mr. Duers oflice for I knew irom the heffinmng if you were, not for me it ivas idle to say any thinff on the subject ■ and 1 need not say that I have not been promised any aid from yon. though I thought then and now think I had strong claims on you as a party man and a pcrsoual friL'nd— and such I undertake to say is the universal sentiment of every iiouy tiere, of all parties who have witnes.sed my exertions to sustain yon aL^ainst iiieiniamous attacks of your enemies. More than iiO leading men here tendered thsir namas, and among the rest Mr. J. C. Hamilton ; your silence induced me to decliae the proffer. I HAVE NO INHERENT LOVE OF OFFICE, wd I 56 HOYT PUSHING, &C. — INGHAM ON EMBEZZLING MONIES. have not therefore studied discretion or weighed pronouns and adverbs in my letters to " Consiitutional advisers" and advisers not constitutional at WashiuRton. / hnoiu THE EXACT EXTENT of lui/ jirctmsioits, my services, claims, CAPACITY, and POWER— they are small and inconsiderable — but when all or any of them— shall not i)i> properly respected by those whom I think ounfht to respect them, I should be unwilliiinr to submit in silence without beinpr alarmed at any fate that micht await me. Politiial Jiddity, iiniirin>; induntri/ and pcrscrirance will one day or other find their value iu the jjolilical market. These (/valitics 1 claim to possess, and which I deem important iu-« fripU'/in^n'.ir^ """ ^*i" >?"■ ^'>"t ""<- f'f our best, and T had almost said, ablest fnonds in Baltimore, left h(;re on the .Jth March, leaving his imprecation behind H'not '!.^n ruT'?f'"*'^'" ^" "<^^^^'""^ the,rvacam,!ind because we tlrnn, T'*^'^ ''' ' •' /^''""''"^tration Inspectors, not one of whom could have been known here, and o{ whom they have not vet accurately informed me are'^eUmg'^'ight^LTre'" '" """"^-''^ ''''''''''' "'' '•/.>/,...<,..., and matters ha^SeStJuvo'lllIltJ^.' '^'"'"'"'^^ °"^ ^'^"^^ ^^'^^^ -..•.«^, that they Providence, too has had a ferment, where we had 72 votes, all told. There has also been the same at Little Egg Harbour, where we had^f. votes ! »inL. Too ^ rP'°'^r'^ from the morbid parts of our systcm-but uothing can sink deep which is not founded in something rational and substantial Are you not wearied with my long letter ' I am rloL'f ^^f T.'* ^°."^'^-'' ""P'"'^ ^ ^''"'''^ '^•'■'»'^"' «'"''« I ^^-as dubbed Secretary-and despair of getting time to write such another, for this year at least. Yours truly, S. D. INGHAM. Mr. Cambreleng to Mr. Jesse Hoyt. ^''"""''" Washington, 10th Jan'y, 1833. Innp"hp?;r^7'\^ r"/° '^°'' ^^^ ^"•''"''^'^ '^"" *o M'-- Jackson. Mr. Mc Lane, besides which that letter contains (which is a true statement) had other rZ sons whch cannot be explained on paper. There was no deceptioi-l vvant of influence about it— the question rested on other grounds altogether mnrnL"n°r' '"l'""''. C. [Coddin-ou] in answer to his enrn.jries, that I had this mo miner a Trank and full conversation with Mr. Barry, who tells me that he never . onzed Mr. .Smith to believe that he woul.l appoint him, and that he had no idea of omg any such thing. Mr. Smiths going on to New York has done him njury_/». roill not get the office. It is well understood by the President, Mr. Marry am by all who have any influence here, that when a change takes place Mr. u! li undoubtedly be the man. Although I cannot and will not be insirumenial in h removal of Mr. Gouverneur, I will take care that our republican fnends sl.aU not be d sappointed f^or the last tune. \Vh,n a change takes place, Mr. Coddut'Uon mil be the choice of the President and the P. M. G. ^ouain^ion Sincerely yours, C. 0. CAMDREI.ENG. K? Yovr letter is destroyed— do the like ivith this— Gow Throop and Mr Cra^ir were nominated to-day. ^ ^'a'. v..ia.g Jesse Hoyt, Esq., New York. Frce-M. Van Burcn. ,.„ , . r ^.■' ^f^*" ^"'.—f send j^ou^rth the greatest pleasure Ihe t-tler ou desire for our friend Phelps. I have been here for a few days where .he i^y is using very desperate efforts. I almost begin to pity the poor \\ixigl • U. 8. Oiitrltt Attorney, So. Dii. N. V s g 58 GEORGE P. BARKER AND JOHN VAN BUREN. WHO CA^ Their next copnornen w ill l)c Dmiorrats — remember what I say. I think you ought at some of your meetings, to call upon tlx^m, as our friends have done in Philadel- phia, to {rive notice hy what name they mean to pass next year. In haste, very truly yours, Kinderhook, Get. 5il, 1h;54. M. VAN BUREN. Extract of a hitter — Edward Tiivingston to Jesse IToyt — dated Albany, Feb. 24, 1821. — '• Peter R. told mn that if the collisions which "have taken place since had hapjipucd before the Now York appoiiitnienls. that he would he d d if 1 should not have had my appointment. Sutherland did not want any .hmjr for himself, but went away ipiitc in a iii'kf. Van Uuren's vounQ- tribe, thai he has been trainiri for the last. Irt months, ihoupht they could rule tlic ."State, but he is too cunnini; lor them. 'I'lie party is in au unsettled state ; we want a firm leader. We inust pn;!' up some of our elan into a {rreat man. J^owne is pressing the bill to divide the ^layoraliy as fast possible, to enable him to ;.nve us a mayor, &c. But who they will be he keeps to hiinself." CHAPTER XV. Eighteen Letters. John Van Bimn (Af/ornri/ General) to Jesse Hoyt. Speczilalion, bus, ivai^ers, saml/ling in the Stoe/;s,J'rain/iilint sales, prof one language, elramn>: out the deposits. '■• Bvi/ nn/ Stoek.^^ Bujiing on Marry' s Message. C. W'.Lan- rencc to "run lihe the Cholera.'' Prosper M. IIV/whj/t. Bits on Governor. P. C. P. C.Beanlshy. A fortune lost. Bits on Marey and Lneas. Is Leg git crazy? J. V. B. a lain/er, and ready to do '^ dirty work.'' Hoyt and Cuttin-: borrow. J. V. B. gets' half the projils. Bets safe on l'y,00O. A fallur arvi son's aehiowled gnivnts. Boston and Providence. Mohawk. Ilurlann, cjf. The office of Attorney General [)laces the distinfruishcd individual who fills it at the head of the 13ar of the city and State of New York. It is an ofliee of hipli h.onor, (jreat importance, and lartre emolument. "^I'lic Attorney General is the chut publie prosecutor. His opinion is required by the tiovernor, by the Leirislatuif, and by public functionaries tlirouirhout the State in eases of prave emergency and leifal embarrassment. With him rests the conduetini; of civil causes on behalf nf the people. The validity of frruat ])ublic contracts much depends on the clearnc;- with which they are drawn u]). Here ajrain, and in their enforcement, too, he is;i conspicuous oiTieer. l"^x officio, he is a Trustee of Union Collefre, and other edu- cational institutions, and outjht to be a man of pure eliaracter, unsullied fame, and great legal learning — a pattern to lawyers — and a terror to wrong-doers. The predecessor of Mr. .lolin Van Buren was the too notorious General George P. Barker, the jiarent, director, proseeuting-attorney, and whipper-in of that curious corporation, the City liank ol'Bufl'alo, concerning which, after it brokf down. Gov- ernor Marcy reported that the redemption of its notes by the State Treasury had exceeded $.'?00,000; and that " ?7 is supposed that a still larger amount of tk fraudulent issues of that bank than is already redeemed, is lurking yet in recesses onli known to its corrupt managers.'' Messrs. Flacg, Marcv, IJix, O'Sullivan, Varian. Corning, laulkner, Davev.ac, Holl'man, Chatfield, M. Van Buren, and the wire- pullers of the party, found among the learned men of New York but one man fit/' rejiresent tluir interests in the staticni of Attorney General, and that was the chifl manager of the guilty corporation whose fraudulent promises our country was then redeeming ! They did not choose Jesse Hoyt next — nor Benjamin Rathbun — their suU'rages ^\ere favorable to the author of the eiL'^hteen letters in this chapter, who. like Lorenzo and Jesse Hoyt and pious Mr. Butler, is a true pupil of M. Va;: Buren. Perhaps it is all for the best. G. P. Barker and J. Van Buren may have been lifted up into this high office, over the oldest, wisest, ])Uresl and most rcspectei' members of the profession, as a means of exhibiting in bolder relief the workings oi the vile machinery invented by Burr and improved by his law-student, by which disgrace is brought on the good cause of democracy, and the morals and manner.- ..| the country c suitable remedy lulls at the recol Dr. Charles C -lipport of the n •• on account of Rut, said he, '■ I (ihject to :\rr. V ; 1(1 115-iiiiist lliij liaii!; .■.■ni"il Ibr tliu iriiiTiii' !ji:iLliiiiery, wliicli ha i'lililic iiiraira, and u-i ..'i:,'iiiii£: iiliice-lmiitii ilio wniid. a.s ili(. fill ' ''/(IS.) arc lliu aim, fii'i.i iLiautlior.-j and j May his prayc Let us supposi actcr, for instam phantom corpora 1320 — to be arra ney General. 1 aiul ask the judff Can a profane, 1 forth coming cla] iher had ' made the candidate for 'if stocks — can hi his indigent, unp ;i cell in the pe bitches ' — ' God ( God ■ — ' d— d lit f'llice, Irom a leg (ii's blessing on i as a director of ; of the bank of I ncy General B. Washington and oral J. "\';ni Buret Bank in Albany, vaults, specuhiiin turn round to a ' the law in his n sin? Is it possi' when I only folh predecessor,' and Persons of the of S 100,000 of agency of the fit Clinton laid the n the present Atto occur in 1810 woi hi 18-26, Colonel ^ ork for fraud , ai who went to the j The U.S. Lomk less man; ^ ice pn WHO CAN EXPECT JUSTICE FROM ATTORNEY GEN'l VAN BUREN? 59 .,t the country corrupted. I hat the Convention of 1810 may unite to provide a Hiuable rem;i(ly will b. the fervent prayer of every American who -lows and glad- • IcMis at the recolleciiuu ot the deeds of liis fathers in the glorious days when " Freehorii milliniis rose anil sworn '. Ttieir hirlliri-iit.-i ii> maiiitiiin ; Re.-Jiilvoil IK) tlirciu'ii ynko In lirar, To tlrui; no lymiu's cliuiu." Dr. Charles Cooke, a Senator of Virginia, when he withdrew in i830 from the -lipport of the national administration, ohjcete.l to Messrs. Calhoun and Webster "liut" said h"'^ ^^"""^ discrepancy between their political principles " and his own. May his prayer soon l)e heard ! Let us suppose a protiirrate, fraudulent, bank president or director— such a char- acter, for instance, as some of the 'Life and Fire,' ' U. S. Lombard,' or other phantom corporations gave up to indictment or the penitentiary in the memorable l3^b-lo be arraigned at the bar of justice, Mr. John Van Buren acting as Attor- ney Lreneral. Ihe guilty creature might read to the court :\[r. Y. B's 18 letters ami ask the judge •• Why is he //urc and me /„ n'-h this a bind ol-ein.al iaws'-I tan a prolane betting profigate, who look advauluire of his kuowledrrc of the uiith coming elap-lrap, six-miilion loan message of Governor Marey, whom his fa- der liad made a ludgx; ' to keep from utter ruin, and which message was to make the camiidatc lor Mayor of New York, ' run like the cholera,' and affect the iirioc 'it stocks— can he, who used that message to enrieh himself, thro' the aircncv of ■us indigent unprincipled as.sociaK^cau be it went to. Was not Attor- ney General 13. F. Butler, President, Cashier, Director and Altornev fJr the U ashingion and Warren I Every body knows about it. Was iioi Altin-ney Gen- P 1 • ■'", "'''^" diiector and proseeutino- attorney fer the Farmers and Meehanies l^aiilv 111 Albany, wiieii it had borrowed millions of tlie public revenue and shut its vaults, speculating with Us specie and deeeivinir its creditors! Can John Van Buren ■urn round to a ' god-learing ' jury of professing christians, as the chief minisier of the law m Ins native State, and 'cast the first stone' at his ancient comrade in Mn. Js It possible, that, at /»,s- bidding, you will stamp i,nii/l ui on my forehead when I only followed the example of Attorney Generaf Barker, his ' illustiious predecessor, and when the records of our courts show, that ' they all do it " " .r I'fnn^.l""'- >\"'ne of Livingston and 'I'racy got hold, secretly and fraudulently, ot 3100,000 ot the funds of the !\Ierchanis' Bank of New York, throeeli the agency of the first teller, John W. Thorne. All three went to jail. Governor Uinlon laid the matter before the Senate, and they referred it— March, 1819— to the present Attorney GeneraFs father, Mr. Van Buren. Should a similar case T^'^L^o l?^,^ "?"J.'' '^ ^^ ''^'^^ '° '"^''^ '^ t" 1'"^ """""• "'' 'l>e eighteen letters? in W-2b, (.olonei Prosper ]\L Wetmore was indicted by the Grand Jury of New lork lor fraud, and afiprwards used bv ^ilaxwej! a?. States' evidence anamst Hyatt Tv!° Jr c ^T ^^'^ Pei'itentiary, and against Barker and others then they're convicted.' itie U, b. Lombard, of which Hyatt was president, and Wetmore (the active busi- ^css man; ^.ee president, had got a charter— Us officers had filed their oath that its 60 ATTOBNEY GENERAL VAN BUREN — A TRUE PICTURE. capital (hundreds of thousands of dolhirs) was paid up, hut they well knew that nol over five cents in the dollar iiad liciii mo ])aid, if as uiufh — tiiey pretended to he ill a llourishinir condition when on th(! (^ve ot l)ankru[)tcy, and divided profits though ihey had realized none. When the huhhle Inirsst the [)ul»lie was eiieated out of more than $()00,00(t. Are not laws for the piihlic heiiefit? What a farce it would he to entrust a case like that to a Hutler or a Xnn Ikiren ! By their politi- cal machinery, General Weimorc ap[)eared in the legislature of Mew York, 183G, to vote for Barker's Hufliilo Hank, and for other Banks hy which our honest, hard working people have heen defrauded out of millions of dollars. tJeneral Prosper, hy the like machinery, is now " Navy Agent at New York," one of the most lucrative and important offices in the Union ! [No. 1.] John Van Burin to Jesse HoyI, at iWio York. Why God D — n you, Jesse ! b\iy my stock and draw upon me at sight. You must he poor hi/clus down there, if you cannot raise this two penny sum. If the Stock lias gone up, let it go to H — //. The Bank will come up against the ?Safety Fund Banks, and depress stocks — the Governor's measure will eventually relieve the country. Yours truly, J. VAN BUREN. Albany, March 25th, 1834. [No. 2.] Address — Jesse Iloyt, Esq., Counsellor at Law, New York. Paid 12i— Pm k " Albanv March 22." My Dear Jksse — Please let Nevins and Townsend buy me 100 shares of Moh. and Hud. \i. R. for cash at 536, and Bost. and Prov., 100 shares at 92i cash; drawing (m me at 3 days sight for the ainount. If better terms can he had by taking the stocks two weeks hence (buying on time) 1 should like it belter. I fear stocks will rise after Monday, and therefore I vaiit these purchases made Monday, but leave it open after. L''t the bi'sxgars deal honestly hy me for I lose a deal of money any how. There will he something done here Monday that will charm you Yorkers. Lawrence will run like the Chohra. Please ask Bucknor to hand you the amount of differences at which my fifty shares Manhattan stock were settled, and send it to me. Yours very truly, and much better. J. VAN BUREN. Albany, March 22d, 1834. [No. 3.] Per mail, post mark, " Albany — Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Counsellor at Law, New York." My Deak Jesse — ^The purchase by N. and T. of 100 Mohawk at 96, is very good. I understand it to be payable in all next week. I shall be in N. Y. next Monday (31st inst.) and shall then arrange it. Please countermand the order for Boston and Providence : I should prefer not to buy it; and if it is purchased and can be resold without loss, let it be done — any how, as Lord Grey said, I shall stand by my ' order.' Y''ours verv truly, J. VAN BUREN. Albany, March 28th, 1834. [No. 4.] My Dear Jesse, — Nevins and Townsend write me that they have bought my Utica Stock. Please get the :noney for the enclosed and pay them. / do not wish to correspond with them directly. Let the certificate be made out in my name, and send it to me by some private conveyance, or keep it till I come down, which will be shortly. Yours very truly, J. VAN BUREN. Albany, April I7th, 1834. [No. 5.] My Dear Jesse, — With the slender assistance of the above [a draft for $780] fortified by the enclosed [a check for $31,10], you will, I think, be able, (if you will do me the favor,) to satisfy the following demands — Nevins & $ 100— Minth If it falls s most meet to s I intend to ) P. S. I th( Albany, Jur Per mail, Ji [No. 6.J Rl cloihes are al will send it to Can yon gei State that the Albany, Au< N. B. Our tall majority in majority. [No. 7.] : Patterson R. M of! at ihe boys. Keep the pui I shall go we in my absence t out and save mi Sept. 5, 1831 Jesse Hoyt, 1 Endorsed " c [No. 8.] P'i My Dear Ji know that / am that you have pu sum of mojiey, I see that on was when I aut^ I know nothir it had been risii forthwith. Perhaps it wii and if I own an If I get out of reports read. Avon Springs Alby. p. m'k- [No. 9.] My the Church,' anc REM. [removal] see but I must k My imprcssior If the poor Wf, (OOusida. &)••] GAMBLING, SWEARING AND STOCKJOBBING. 61 Ncvins & Townsend $391,46— Chester Jennings $230— "Younc" Wilson $100— Minthoriio Tompkins $70. ^ " If it (alls short, parcel it out to the Cormorants, in such bits as you may deem most meet to subserve their several necessities. I intend to walk into the Mohawk soon. J. VAN BUREN. '>-'! Albany, w\"t[,l8t."" '"''^' '' '''' "" " ""^- '^'^ '''''^' ^^^^ '''^- Per mail, June 14. [No. O.J M V Dka R Jksse,— For G— d's sake send me mv over coat— mv under- wUl sem? H o '''""' ""^' ^'"^ ^ '^"' '^ ^^°^'""' '^''^ " '"' "''''^" '" Wheeler's, who " P»rish crodil, perisli commerce BeariWej'." 62 BETTING AND nAMBLlNG BV ATt'y GEn'l VAN BUUEN. stocks would rise. New Jersey may tro lor them, and e^ive ihem a lilip — but Penna, will kiioekthem stilTiiext W( '.;k — ho will Ohio — and so will N. Y. It' you (;oul(l fret the ditlerence \wX on Marcy, I should say ' Sell hy all means' — and any how I don't know but you had belter sell. Do exaeily as you s.'e fit. I shall 1)1! down before ii I'alls liue |)robal)ly — meantime I sliould be most par/iculnrlij obliijed to von, if you ran i>it //c an even bet a^nmsl Many to (ini/ niiiount k.ss than. FIVE Tito US AM) DOLLARS. I think I would bet $ 10(1 on eaeh 1000 majority up to 5000. I wcudd bet .$ ITjOO aj^ainst !*i 1000 on an even eleelion. I eonsidcr Marcy's election, by from 7,500 to 15,000 majority, AS SURE AS COD. You know best how inucli the Patterson is worth, and you must do exactly as if it was your own, and I shall bo satisfied. Yours trulVi ^ J. V. B. Make me some bets if possible. Tuesday. P. S. The Whigs may gather pluck after some meetings or some things. Post mark, Albany — addressed j Mr. Hoyt at N. Y. [No. 10.] My Dear Jksse — I should think you right about selling the Patter- son, if it will not do to hold. By the looks of Webb's paper, {allho^ it is intrnt/cd no doubt to oprratn on New Jers'y,) the opposition gained confidence. Can you tmipt thciii with A WAGER on ;] — 1— and .')000 Majorities— S 200 on each— or $500 on 4000? If neither of these can he got tomorrow, bet them $500 on 5000 majority. There will ba no betting after toinorroiv. Save the order for Bust, and Prov. open — the Moh. is all right. We have nominated a strong ticket, iho' Livingston (Ned) is the Assembly man, contrary to all expectation. Yours ever truly, J. VAN BUREN. Albany, Oct. I2th 1834. Per. mail, post mark, Albany, paid. [No. 11.] Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Counsellor, &c. New York. Don't be ' uneasy ' Jesse — Go ahead. I wrote you by Sunday's boat : but I suppose as there was no mail the letter mis-carried. I think stocks will fall this week — Sell if you thiidc best. Can you irrt BET.S on thr.^e, four, and five thousand majority for Mavcy, two hundred dollars on each I — if not, 1 will bet five hundred dollars on four thousand — perhaps, if we lose New Jersey, you can get tliis. If you can't do better, I slwuld like a bet of three hundred dollars on five thousand majority for Marcy — unless we lose N. J. : in that event 1 will wait to get belter terms. Y''ouis trulv, .1. VAN BUREN. Albany, Oct. 14, 1834. P. S. — I WILL BP^iT on five thousand majority for Lucas in Ohio. [No. 12.] Mv Dear Hoyt — You have worked the Patterson Rail Road very well. I am shocked at the shares only being $50, having become reconciled to at least d(nible the loss. Tell Wilson that I have an impression that he promised to invest $500 or so, for me, provided I kept out of the ' betting ring," so as to encourage the enemy to give him a fair chance. If I am right, and even if I am not, I count upon his nobility to spare inc $500 even on Marcy, out of his big invistment. I shall be in New Y'ork the last of the month — let me know what W. says. Amours truly, J. V. B. Albany, Oct. 15, 18.11. P. S. I dont care to bet on 5000 majority for Marcy just now : if it is not too iatti tu back eut- [No. 13.] I deliverablt! in (! you send an on pair of neat wi shall eoiue to T» Albany, Dee Per mail and ,[\o. 14.J [. \ork — care of My ])|..au Jt i(p .stdl me 10(» slioiild iKit, jir< I'll'teted the sale pevate a .small ji Is Lungett w: Alhany, Dee. P. S. 1 have iitlend all the C( WORK.' ^ [No. 15] P' Siiijfle. .Mv Dear Je Id deposit, subje an-angenient of i you may choose hclcc'.iHl to loan All onr Bunks The Bank her yon will pay 7 p ir this meets ; If you agree i Mint, please send yon u-rite. Your note mi slionld pay it wl not be till ire sec , Albany, Aug'i [No. If,.] Ad P'lii'k, Aib'y, N ,My Dear Ho liavi,' stood the d- 1 hope the frig besides Register, lose one. Ill this State oi Bits on 15 are Fur G— d's sal, ''•night napping tl Albany, Nov. J [No. 17.] Alb ' My Dear' H check, for your co VAN HUREN, HOYT AND CUTTINg's PARTNERSHIP. 63 [No. 13.] My Dkak JFSSE-Please sell me 100 shares Bosior. & Providence deliv.rabl- m (,i days, at lOTi or lOT.j. I sl.all l.o in New York thm ™ < ari you send un order to and Kn.d.ail, \o. ;} Wall St., to n.ake n.e /)M/^l ,,a,ro nea ^^.nt..r Hoots u.t, heel, an ineh hi,!.; I ^vant them to VearwlaU t^hall eonie to New \ ork, and tiiat will he hy Tlmrsday. Yours truly, Albany. Dee. 7.h,IRr{l. ^- ^AN BIJREN. Per mail and steamboat, " eh. .1. V. ]}." , l''Ii ^*'-'^'' J'^^f':-^''';-'"^'^*! i« ,y"ur note. Jf the order to Nevins & Townsend w Ml me 100 .hares ...s,„,. &• Providenee at K.Tj to 5 at 00 days and Jn" rest ^ 0,; d no j^ronM/v, have been eountermanded in season, I „L it hey ave ' II. ' ed the sale : ,1 so, ha them close n at the present priees, so that 1 may recu- pevate a .small portion of my losses. ' ^ " Is Leogett wicked or crazy l Yours truly, Albany, Dec. .lOth, 18:m. J. VAX BUREN. ,„^;i^"ii .?''?'.'' ''"■"'"*■ "'' P^'nf^'sl'ip ^'1 linv with Col. McKoun: one of us will 1 nd .all the Courts and we shall be HAPPY TO DO ANY BODY'S 'iMlUT J. V. B. SnSe. '^^ ^'"' "' ''^"*'''' '^""^- ^'^' ""'^ =»l^'>-essed to J. Hoyt, Wall st., N. Y. t„ W^'n^f" .■^.''^'■'-"" '^"'1"''T 1 find that T can pet one of the Banks in this city to deposit, subjee t., their .,wn order, sneh sum as may he requisite to make the n..M,^en,eMt ol which we s; „ke, in any Pank m New York, (say the P Z , ) t ? m. n,ay Hioose : this will answer the purpose provided i can ge clia 1 ■scIcc.hI to loan you the moncif on your Note. b ^ ^a.ui. All onr Banks arc nearly up to their limit, and I canm.t borrow the money 11' this meets your views you will please advise me by return mail J yon n^rve to gtvc mc half the profit, of ihn rntcrpnze for malang this arrange- Zlcntc '" " '"I"""'"" '" "'"' ^'■"' "^"'^' ^V yoir.s.J/an/Cutling, rchrt Vour note miahf be made payable on deman.l, with an understanding that vou Albany, Au,-t::3rd, ,836. ' J- VAN BUREN. [No. ifij Addressed to .lesse Hoyt, Esq., Counsellor at Law, Wall st., N Y ' III ic, Alb y. JNov. 11. biutjle. Mv Dear Hovt-I'II do the justice to say, (and so does my father,) that you k c stood the d— -d lies Irom Pemra belter than most of our iriends in N Y I lope the frifTht fnm. this dictates the letters to us, saying that all of our tickets lose one ^^''''"■' ^^ """'' ""''" '''" ''''"^•^ ""'' '" ^'^"^'"'- ^ ^ou't believe we shall n' .*'''^ ^}''}^'^ ""'' "l=ij"''ity will range from 15 to 25,000. Bits on 15 arc perfect h/ sal'i . P-n!''"u^~''"^ ''4"' '"' "''!^ '""""'^ ^""' '^'^ "if^"' ••attention to New Jersey, and not be cuiglit napping there, as in Connecticut. My father a-isks me to say so to you. Yours truly, Albany, Nov. llth,183G. i. VAN BUREN. f m"" 't!'^ Albany P'm'k, Dec. 19. Postage double. M,cM ^ ■^''' ■^"''.'^ (""^ ^""^^ ^^^''''^ ^'"^''s t« ' Webb')— I enclose you your cneck, tor your comtort— it was deposited in the Bank for collection, and, of course 64 VAN BUREN. HOYT AND COLLECTOR LAWRENCE. is returned to you without incnnvenionce. As for money, I dont know that I shall be |)fC'ili(ir short (not physically hut jitruniarih/) uiMcwh Himton and Providence should po down to ;i inert' anaioiny. In th:it event 1 fiMr the ex-Danish Coiuinis- sioner and myself will he a ' hejow-jiar nohile' of fulftirers. Please to lei Willard of the City Hotel be apprized that I want two flannel shirts, and as many [)airs of drawers, to be had of Tryon for a trille, alias credit. I am not a ' ('ouneellor' and be d d to you — and if 1 were I should spell it with an 'S' in the middle. Yours 'to sarve,' J. VAN nUREN. Albany, Dee. lOth, 183:{. P. S. Since the forenoinf; oifusion was poured forth, 1 have enquired at the Bank, and find your cheek has been sent to New York. I suppose the easiest way ' lo work it' is to enclose you, as I do, my eheck on this bank for the same amount, pa\ able at the same time. J. V. B. Jesse lloyt, I'laq., &e. &c. &c. [No. IH.] Deah Sir — Ph iise pay (Jlover one hundred and fifty dollars and accommodate your recently much aiiuscd frund, J. VAN BUREN. At your office. Saturday, 2 P. M. (May, 1833.) Jesse Hoyt, Esq. CHAPTER XVI. Purity of Elections — Wri^^ht, Van Iiurrn,an(i Marcy, on bets, wagers, stochjoblnn^, and '"'■ j)rivileged associations.''' Isaac Hill on bets — ditto, Ritchie. John V. Duren and the 6 ntiltion loan. Pt i/ing; the Piper. Mr. Hoyt dunned — summoned to tk Mi'iy. '■'■ Somethim; Joyful."' Hoyt, Cutlins; and V. Burcn's partnership. Bvf- J'alo Bank Notes, yeiu Polosi. New Hope, Del. Bridge Co. — Leake, Hoyi, Beers, Marry and Delajield. Morris Canal Co. C. C. Cambrelcng. In October, 1810, Messrs. Butler, Hoyt, * C. W. Lawrence, Morris, Edmonds, Bowne, S. Alley, Stevenson, ^'arian, and others, exhibited a somewhat unubual anxiety to preserve what they called the purity ol elections. Mayors and Recorders visited private dwellings at midnight, as Sherifls' constables, with only this difi'er- ence, that they acted without law or warrant. The most private and secret jjapers of our citizens were seized, because " the constitution was in danger,"— the satety of the people being the supreme law, and their object, as they said, to punish treason against the republic, by " unmasking the traitors.'' M they then failed in so laudable a purpose, n-e, by means of this unpretending volume, may now have better success. Gov'r. Marcy, in 1830, in his annual message, endeavored to impress upon the * [Letter Mr. Hoyl to Hon. C. W. Lawrence. — Marked ' not sent.') New York, Nov. 'il, 1S3C. Dear Sir— As llie exrileiiieut of the clerlimi has in a iireat degree pa.sseil away, it is proper tlial I should pay aiteotiou to tlios,' iiii'iijc-nls in wliicli i am eoncerneil, connected with if, though perliapa I ouglu lo ap ilogize lo ycni it to bo mi ; "!'''l. CiUTi.'d to lll,> '■I'''. I>e,aliii£r in sloe :'M"lMCes mosi of the e ' '!>''ic^it>- lfthi.skii ■ 'Hily liiis been carried " 111"-" who h.'iil it r '■■' ' did not e.vprci a ili ' '■ >:"ck, ;ind !lie lo.is /'ii'ici. This i.^ nil II '■■ It is Worse than ' ' I'l iiiaiLmeiiMiil, and I V'';!''"'; 'I Lsiriie, oili '■'■lircd voiil. hill Ih,- I 11-^ n-|ir,>Mnialives; y,. ' "liich this spcci,.< ,, '^:i-' have embarked in CJiivernor Mare^ ■'"1'' uiFub. is-w'y] ruined. He wroK 'iiin. advising the VAN nrREM ON SAFETY FUND BANKS-MAUCY ON STOCK-JOBB.XO. 65 MMinll.T who »s,.. marke Ss in 1, "" .t, ,.ro,,-lauu, .1 t!uu. -The .'n.;.t,.ra,lva„tajrL-.s 11/?. ^w ^.L «;tw. .hnu-ho„.s.., du... not enjoy >T.y i.. Ih.. counfrv th,. Mikes ■ ' ^ """'' "''" ""^ «"'J«' ""^ '^l' '!'« prop- rin;;;:;';l? v:i:z t';i '^'^':- .^t':; !''••-'''- y- ^^"- <^^" i-'o li-. as a M.'. M..tl..r,i,s .som.> s' v c- n im.', r ""•"•^^'f-'' * ^vnttm for i,o..u.rity" (by I i.d.nu- Ihrrd.y " ti .mdu. , , , 1^ ^ '. '"'' "','' "'^'''"'"y ^'"'ivored hanks, IHfiilaiioii aiK oxtrava.riincc— to .w.iniu. ;,, ^*^'7'"''^»- "'^,J>"'5 foi' iho means of .'av.. di.n.lv lo h„...u, in. ' c a I, ,. '",!''"['■"••". '" ""•, '-'"ly virtues that ^v.lih. which ro. rs tho^^nl . J H , „ '"'' '"-^"'"".'^ '-njoym.MU u„d sudden |H'.v.l.....s ..oMlirrcl hy ;a;;!;;N;::!:J!;.:,:'-;""""->' ^""^*^'"' =^ ^i^^-' "»• ''-elusive -i.' m";;;:; l;o'":S;::.":.:;;:i;':;:;^;::i?;'r:'SI; """'^ -;'-\-i>i'='i. a-d .-hieh km.™ I, ,i„. 1 „„»„,,,„,,.,,,, ,,,„,,„,. i, i, '„';i;,',;;',;i.';!!"' "i' "« ■" ■•"' P^pie, U'l.:il «ns /„,, „„„l,„.i : " Wl,'„ ">■'": ll',, ,'■';, " '"^'■"' '" ""'"•"' ]"ivil<-s,vl l,;,„l,. '■■-: ';;;,'-'s;r;i:i';is;':j ™;;if y;; ^ii^t':; "??"• »;' r "'"•■<>■ '•""'i'l''nil(! llovt th-it Iwvnmin •!' l"-''''^, lie could not h,.|,, rciniiidincr his 'l-n,thanM M:;,..;f ^^J^^ ,1, ". ir, J'V.V''''''^'^''^' j'-"' '-^ "''-'re of H. 1.1=* message of 1830: ' '^^^"'"^'' ^^'^ '"'•"•'^•■" '<> Mr- Marey '■ '!";7 ^yUn |,,-„| it„„t, „„,l,,r ,1 (M.alract in , I :, ■'"""'.'■''■ 'I'l.-miti,... ..f sl.Tk liavo l4i, sold ::' < 'I'"'"' ''•"■I"''-' » 'l«liv,.ry of ii. The re-. IS of I ,r "".'■" '"""" •;""'"'• "'i'' l""-.-l..>.-'-l .'v W ;■ ;;^;;;k, :m,l ,l,. lo.s „,„! .^h, a.; M-.at:ri, •' J ,n ^; '^;:?'; ;;'';^,,:'^^,''!'.l"^t-l w,a!o„, ,„„ ,|,,iVn- -^ ■ ll H u-„rs. t!mn wautTs „|,o„ ,n'(l , rv on i Z, .-'l Pn.-I.nilar sind;. n„ a s; wiii,-,! m ire v^ -:^'^u^^;';;."t,^;dia^::— ^^^^^ G..vprnor Ararcy, as his urodrr-pssor tcH- iviv Tr --» TT,,. r ir -- t^. 66 O SULLIVAN ON THE JUDICIARY — HILL ON BETS. never raised. Mr. John Van Burrn, the reader will have perceived, was shown this messafre in advjince, and used it to speculate in the stocks, through Hovt. JViay not oz/frrs have had the same advantaye? Mr. Marcy liad heen saved t'n'm rum, and why not he grateful ? Look at his weak, fcehlc character, and say if the message that was to put dollars into his patron's son's purse, " charm you Yorkers,"' and make even old I\Ir Lawrence "run like the cholera,"' is not calculated to rouse suspicion, when taken into consideration with his whole official conduct' " Men who are opposed to " the IJanking sy.stem of N. Y. State, says Mr. But- ler, or Mr. O'Sullivan, in the number of the Democratic Bcview already quoted " may, indeed he elected to Congress, or to a State Legislature, but seldc m with- " out a severe struggle ; and, oJUr liny on tlatid, Ihiy urr (sjwscd to c/angirs of " corrvfilwn as great as any the iium/urs of the British VarlwmaU mre cjpostdto vi ^'^ the , lays of ^,r Robert Wulpok In the courts of justice, they [the I JJankiiig interct-t] have perhaps, a more decided ascendency than in the legisja- " tive halls; for most (f the prinripal juilges are immhers of this vrhihi'cd ordrr 11 AND TlfE GOVERNORS OF l\iAKY STATES, and the niunicipal author^ ities o( many of the principal towns, are mere instrmixnts for the vromoiion of " their pvriiosfs.'''' '' In the State of New York, privileged Bankers, Governors, our principal judges and iminicipal authorities have, generally speaking, heen the creation of the well organized party of which Mr. Van Buren is the chief. Is not, then, this party or faction, on the showing of its own public organs, dangerous to society? Governor llill of New Hampshire, like his friend Wright at Albany, may have denounced belting on elections, in his public messages, but he did not do so in his private ones. For example — [Franked, Concord, Oct. 18.—" Isaac Hill, S. U. S."] Concord, N. H. Oct. 15, 1832. My dear Sir— Yours of the 12th was last evening received. TO MEET THE ^l^4^1\'^A^'\";^.T^J' V^^ OPPOSITION I ADVISE MY FRIENDS THAT ANY SUM WILL BE SAFE ON THE ELECTORAL VOTE OF Pennsyl- vania and New i ork. In this State we are so strong, that should every other desert him, we maybe relied on as giving a decisive majoriiy for Andrew Jackson. Yet the Bank is scat- tering its thousands here to afl'ect us. I am. Sir, respectfully, Your friend and obedient Serv"t " ISAAC HILL Jesse Hoyt, Esq. N. York. Governor Hill and Mr. Stephen Allen were selected by Mr. Van Buren, as Receiv- ers General under the Sub Treasury Act, Mr. H. being then President of a chartered Bank, and also a Government Contractor. In the report on the post office and it« abuses, Senator Hill and partners, appear for $ 14,C€0 for blanks, rarer, twine, &c. Such patronage to a^rre press could ailord a bet with " the braggarts." Like Hill, ihe Van Burens, and Hoyt, their betting brother the venerable Ihomas Ritchie, went as far as he could aflord in "the sclf.sh and coriuptire practice " His letter we have not room for now. I think that Mr. J. Hoyt's bets, from 1831 to 1640, must have exceeded $ 120- 000, calculating from the evidence before me. And vet he, loo, was deeplv in- terested in preserving " the inirity of onr elections!" " Cash, clothes, boots hats, dollars— on week days and Sundays. There was no end to it. John C. Cruger to Jesse Hoyt. Charleston, Nov. 27, 1834. My Dear Sir— On my arrival here I wrote to my brother-in-law Mr Pell re- questing him to pay you three hundred dollars ICO for yourself and the same sum for Mr. Wilson. 1 send this letter by the steam packet and it will probably he in New ^ ork as soon as that. When you receive the $300, please pay the i:0 to Mr. W ilson whose bet is the same as yours. Although the result of this ele.iim mu^t be very agreeable to y(ui, ] cannot congratulate you, for 1 trust that you will look upon It as a source of regret before many years. rp. , • J , . J =™ ''"'-V y""^S' JOHN C. CRUGER. Ihe above was received of A. Pell, 3 Dec. 1834.— .A. Glover. " A genih Dollars, that over x\vi vote can liilate — p money to be to l)c [)aid to depo-sited by .Mr. Hoyt ( up Jan'y 17, Mark the g of Customs. hnce on this o stocks. Two Notes Dec. 27, 183 21st inst., a I ssttled?" " New Yor late firm, I fei unless S"ttled Thus stood he, his friend sioii iS to ex;i great fire in N Post mark, " New York. My Dear H( I have Just en confident of sin of some import I hand to those at Edward Liv the Southern L 1 will take half last time, and t If you conssnt something joyfu Mr. J. Van I they are who d best be made in ''.\notlisr pohit r bettmj upnn electio ele^iioii ii^ielf. The of our freemen, and are all controlling. moil, or reidon, or siiifrago. He mii.it i secn.iilary consirieral ealf from Kisa. and hi best .ierve Uieir conn ■'Tiie 3uj:;e.-illii,i,' !i pu llill I'lTecrlmln- "leut, a.id uiKin coir 111 fiJ costs of the nnmh alone, would. wiiM its corrupt and f'e^tive franchi:".^ : w aiiil to apply It, under mini and polili-al a such," GOV'r WRIGHT ON BETTING ON ELECTIONS. 67 , was shown rough Hovt. saved trutn nd say if the )u Yorkers, ■' •alculated to ial conduct! lys Mr. But- eady quoted, seldc m vvith- > dangirs of cjposid to ui :c, they [the 1 the legisla- ihgcd order, cipal aulhor- promolion of cipal judges of the well this party or y, may have liot do so in 15, 1832. EET THE DS THAT )F Pennsyi- , we maybe 3ank is scat- C HILL. , as Receiv- a chartered ffice, and its aper, twine, ■garls." e venerable 1 coriuptirg ided $ 120,- s deeply in- boots, hats, Mr. Pell re- mie sum for bahly lie in the' i:0 to his elei ti( n it that you RUGER- " A STRnilemrtn, throujrh Mr. J. Hoyt, bet and his friends, One Thousand ii 11 .u i /■' 11 "i ., ,^"}'-f '""■ 111" "IS inenas, une 1 housand Dollars, that General Jackson will have as iar^e a m.jonty at the e^suin-r election over th. vote opposed to him, as to be equal to the total n,te given to any om'osmi ,. ir 1 ... , . Iiicre tollows the sin-natiires 1 n^^Jf'Ii:^lS •"' "^''^ °" ^"^ ^'^"'^' P^y'^'^'^ '' ^-^-' wiuch wrgiJen Mark the rrenteel embarrassments of Mr. VanBuren's friend and future Collector of O.stoms. It ts presumed that the Vice President's convenient endorsen^n '1 sSr "''"""" "^ '^'' unfortunate dealer in wagers, politics and Jublfc Two Notes-John Warren, Broker, Wall street, to Jesse Hoyt. " New York Dec -27 1834.-Dear Hoyt-You will find by the inclosed account, made U|. to 21st jst., a balance due us of S2997.^4 cts. Will you do us the fav'or to have h "New York, Jan'y 12, 1833.-Sir-Not havinjr received the balance due our late firm, teel mvselt bouiul by the re;,n.lations of our Board to hand in your name unless s-ttled by lOi o'clock, to-morrow." ^ "^ Thus stood the successor of Swartwout in 1835. In a few months thereafter he, h,s friend Butler, and their comrade W. S. Coe, were the board of ( 'om S gSt fir^m N^Vr : ! M """^ ^" ^'^""^ ^^'"'^^ ^" '^""^^' ^^^ °- '^ ^1^ ^NewYo^k'.'^'"^"''""''" ^'- ^- L'""?«*o"t« Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Wall street, IlS^W ^n°^'~T*''rn &«^hnectady rail-road passed our House this mimm.. I have just enquire.1 of De Graff his opinion of its fate in the Senate-he is no confident of success, but thmks, with a full Senate, it may pass. As This isammTr of son., unportanceto yourself I ^oould aJcse that 'you JJ vp and end a SZ hand to those already engaged m carrying it through. Yours, ° C. L. L. Edward Livingston to Jesse Ployt, Dec. 5, 1823.-" I should like a ticket in he Sonhern Lottery that ha« a $ 100,000 Prize in its wheels. Now, as a fj or will take half of a ticket with you, if you will purchase one-but recolleS it is the as .me, and that If should draw a blank I will not venture any 1^,.^ it iM;». f "r / J'™''"''''"" '''' "''^ •'"^^ "'''■ """^b^"-' ^nd ^I'e.'i I shall have somet/iing joyful in antiapation. ' Mr. J. Van Buren's secret correspondence shows who and what class of persons they are who dare and brave the public with enormous bets. The comment had best be made in the language of Governor Wrighfs last annual message, as follows : X^VJv'f' ;ffi'tlf-""','f'''nl'''''''T''r ""■" ""^'^'^"i""'^ "I.".. .I>e free and pro'er exer. i-'nf -h^ 68 (-'I. JTING .V CM. — t;ui,0M':j, vvi;nii. Winca .•nniiiml cilsc ..„ h, i,„in, andAlr. .). \ :mi J5(iirii, u.s Atlon.oy Gfii criil, ])r()scciiiiriir lor the ,,(.|i|i||. I ^ in ivn.rmlM,- 'i-h, M,.. M \:,„ iliurn row.nlr.l il,,. F.nn.rs niul !\lcolKu.ipe' ..Mk o AllKu.y, and Messrs. Knowcr, Olcolt, ( '..niuiir &('„., it„ ,„i,i.an,.rs, «it|, !<■ CMsUMly „1 some nMllK.M.s of ,l„ll:,i.s „ul „r i!„. niilidniil tivi.suiy. Jlow some nf that nu.uoy was use, I shall liav.- ...raMun to trll in annti,, r mihliralion. n Mr. .inhu \an JJ.uvn's letfr to Mr. Jloyt. .latr.l A„i,r. -:!(!, IHIUI, he affTOcs t.. iMM-umo tin. partner o| M.'ssrs. J i,.yi a,„i lM;„,ns M. Cntln.ur tUv. iauv.-r.tna sp..,-nh.t,on ol lar^rn aun.nnl, r..,|niri,,_. a hravy a. a.s a reeo.npens... lol- owed m dne eonrse-and althonul, ,1,,,, puJdn- snilirrd hy lin' operalion, it ,,s beheyed thai Fresulent \ an JJure,, and his laniily had all halanees duly paid thu,,^ *^~*'*'**' N..;w YouK, Fel.y. 10, I8:n. 'rw,.lv. Tl '''"' V"n"i',' •"'"■'''';'"; ' l"'"""'^'= >" P"y San,„el (Hover, i'l.xeento,-, &c, luehe I iunisan.l D.dlars. will, u,t..,est at the ,-ate of live per cen per ann, i„ „, seeu,-e.he p;,y,.,ent ot whieh I pledge tluve lu.t.ircd Uu.,x4 of TradL^n.e.i's liU ^muv.iipi,. J j^jY-j, i."w.v,.r, ,„";;h. l,;,/,;' ;:^;; " v "'•:;: :::iw;::: ;'!:;;: ^nnur, 'i^'^T "iT-r'i'i-'j- '™". ;;::';;',N;.;:;i':'.;^::/,:i;'":i;,;;;,,ri-.^'r;v''-''^^^ i.ni ,!,:;, ;;;', -^.l' I n!iK .';;;: :1r;:,;;;i:;'r;'''';''^'l /i"- '""^ "■■'" ^" ■■ ^ '■"'■< 'H-""..., ja>l;v,..U.,.a,,,.n,auv..H,apl;a,llv^!;\;:;:,;^,:^;;^: 'l^;^^^^^^^ i^ali... 10 Ills lalil,. l,v a imi,. ii, |,is liand ui-i,i ;V „ i, , i , ^l'. " '''■'' ^' Hlt:iialiiiv liavm^ luvii iiivi-m' • l*'(d)y. 10 (jf 'rra,l,!.s|iii;ii ami „,y note i Tin; ,Si,)ck 1 ( ",■1. 15, 18 sail,! ,l,dlar.s. S 4000, '11,,; .\ew ] iiiir privik'jres tlitin t,j erect pciidi'd j)ayine Jii May, iMii-j, nil! I)a„kru))t J} tlii'ir tn'asurnr- I'liiii'cni in the Ocluber the hi ^ iH'li, throu;r|| uiili till! l;a,iil: (lliit. yot h,dd v. V. they h; .? 1(10,000 to ,•» Iv PL'iits per (1(1 '■oinitrv with n, lifld ei' the PI, !h,'ir St:it,', and IS. 'riie Ohio tollnw i„ duo se -Mr. JToyt an, :M'|ii"ii-i',I that I >;-Jl»,()00of Mil iviinoiids's hro 'ninpany's allir liad iriine to Ne\ Cliailcs IJiitler I III' til,' .\ortli All IkkI lent .[. I). J mli,M- $.1(l,.S88, 'lt^>fiSO, with"i I'-'U' r,iv,irit,'s .fi ; Irid I'xehaniTijd "llii-r notes iiavii 'lie (vli'iirated F Ilii3 inaiKifr(!rs ] j liien; has been f. Ill .\"ove,iiber 18 'ff'i'ald not lon;r ; 'I'lyi's pen. Its iiif'Miis (M- soiieito It will 1)0 seen ''""10 to statu Me ''Mem of Mr. II ^,'. may he true< Al^tyn,"\Vall str "osten and Prov. '" tlio nine itionth 'l''(H)Ullt but Witii He did iiuicli i Itcinicy (Jfii il .Mcoliiuiicg' iiaucrs, witli How some of I. f>, lie agrees l:nv_V('r, III a 'ondilioii thin .Vlliaiiy (was iiH'd ilint the en; to r(!]i:iy of ilH Idilll, Villi I5uren, iis a broken iivoys to liiiii ) Hecure his iii|)eii!5c, Idl- 'I'aiion, it IS y [laid iIilhi, 10, 1831. \eeiitor, &c. ?r aiimini, in •nienV iiniik . IIOYT. ill'ly I'ljiiil Iv'iik Hcy iiiliclr, .Mr. till! llill.S ill llli, I' ilie liili.s uniic ilircly ii'imniiit, 111 were ;it n ilis. !■ I'llii'l' (irHlinli: ■;■ <(M,i ilisniiim, I per ciMil stuck (1 (il'wiysaMKH) olilaiiK^ii ill ,'ii< II .sinck Will-Ill ;] mil liir a u'Vimioi illii'i'.-j. ■\Vlmi I'lii. -Ah-. Hi'Vis 111 mine :i' New ■i'«. iVc, in Npiv l''all.v- ami laiv iiiiiiiifi' III' [>i- illi.i lirliiri— ami "(Il'i'iI it ill ilif Ir liailli' I llfiT li' till- null' \\;h lol ill a iii.-!.iii' t'|)riiiciv>, |ii'rr?, a^i.-i|raii> nt ihi iti |ii-mi' Jiuli-r IT.-.. Aiiirrii'niij. I'liiint'i'liiinwiil! Ilii' (.'nliiiii'l'sor I'l'NS, ill lirislnl 'urk. liaii"!.' rest a man in ' his la|i|i'r;i!. I caiiit? his ixiih II? lU'lMI ilivi!"' he knew JiiJi:' soculion Wiisji ay.ms, novT, WAKcv and the new hope bank. 69 (Memor. aunoxed to the above with a wafer ) ";■': );'' »«;Jl — Hee'd. on the above n..te F A Triev'^ ,1 i /" !-'^*^'^'' Kind d(dl:ir,s. "'• ^ ■ ^* • J-U^y s check for lour thou- S 4000, SAMUEL GLOM^m. i'"i"l"'l I'iivnienl, and i„ lS2l ...iirnVd w I f>''Iauare. I„ Ifeo, „, in May, 1«^5, |.nnisi,; s w^^." S" , e t^Z^^ " "''"'"" !" ''''^ ""^•^ ^"''ts- '•""'■'■I'll 111 Iho Kvi!!! iifr I'o.st and oihnr \\ .. V I '*'^"^'-'' ^^p- He pulh-d the "••'"'"•'•""■ I'Hbldehad burst Mark SW^ '"• ^^'^^ IH-JO, but ia ViH-k, throunl, bank e.uporaiion Inc.s „o u , ,' ""' ""'''>',"' '"'"■'''""^^ '" ^^^ ""I' 'I'" l':i"^\V^^^ «'^ '/'«' •^ It^.fiSO, with liinev ple,|o,.s_,h in sE '^' •^"''" •^M""''^''' ''^"' 'l'"rrowed l-'U' favorites .* ;{:^J■V ( l-aud tb , Vl r ' *■' T*"'"^"'*' '" ^^''^^ ^''""v liad lent a II 1 . "•>-,. )n) — tiiKi mat tl (1 dneetors ot i><'?si :,, ,t i i- i ''^'-1 '■xHian.r,,! t|ie notes of IKhts 1) iSr .,1 ^■' '"•*;!'•« "'«>' went out, '"l'"|- '""OS haviuff 10, l-j and I mm I r "",■' '""^'■'''''' "" '''''»»rul, for 'l>e -•lebrated Fi^h an I Sp ^e ^^ "^ ,:;;;" ' , '^'"/Ve that ifoyt .inulo cnit lien, has been ffreat iraniblinn- ; ll > -2l"' '-^V "'"'':'''>' ''^ ''^'""'^ in which a Xovember 1811 tt w" s,'] ,bh 1 'mw ?"''''!>"' """^^ >''^"-^ »» ''^^'■•o- lierild n,.t]on.r since fllleVil.ir.-''^^^^'^^^^^^^ ^' "^' *^ columns of the N Y 'I'-'s pen. it;'Sc!;"s'u rt ,1"; '" ^"^^ "-i 7f"-'- ;/-V".'- ^'--'^i^^ ^.irjMMs or soiiei,of.s--p,-rhaps the chief one. ' ^ '''*'"* "'"' *'•'- '^ ""*^ "'' i'« ' '^tent of Mr. }[ov.,'.s opera "S him'eli' u" " '''v'^" ri^" '^'^"'^^ Co. The .Ve.maybe ffnessi^l, whe, [ So h iT^.U ' ^^'''''''- \'''^ f^uren, f'ambreleiia, ■ l^'yii. Wall sireet,\br I rlaem J' tiers' ^M"" "'J^. ""«"""««- Dykers & H"^ton and Prov., and Sar t ^Ra 1 lo, s^o^^^^^^ ^I'V'' •^"'' ^^'••'^■'*""' '" "'« "i-io months endincr i, 1 „ s KiJ "^ '" '^' '^""£^!'' 'l'"l s.dd on speculaiion, --"at but wuh one ho,;;e out oPn^my " """'""" "^ ^ '"'^'»»"- '^^his was his He did much of C. (". Cambreien^; business. On the I3tb Sept. ,8:i:MI,at 70 STEPHEN Allen's tammany hall bank. scntleman engaged to deliver him 200 shares of Saratole redeeming trait. Sor- did ill its origin, it is sordid in every thiny." " How should a petition for a bani{ ciiartor conehido? " said one. " And your memorialists will ever prey," was tlie answer. The following letter is from Mr. Stephen Allen, Receiver General for Mr. Van Buren's sub-treasury, " a hard-money man," formerly lottery dealer. Slate Senator, Mayor of N. Y., and who had been the builder of his own fortunes. To his honor be It recorded that he rose from being a poor sailor boy and sailmaker, by industry, -rohity, and great energy and perseverance, to a high place in the public esteem! low far he deserves his character of a hard money democrat, the following secret letter to Mr. Hoyt will lielp to discover : K Post m'd " Steam Boat— 12ic.," and addressed to Jesse Hoyt, Esq., N. York. Mr Stephen Allen to Mr. Hoyt. Albany, Nov. 28, 1832. Dear Sir— Nothing is more true than the observation made by Mr. Van Buren at the Democratic festival ; that the democratic party, in a great measure, owe their present and previous victories to Tammany Hall, the place of concentrated opinion and action, and a rallying point of the democracy of the city, or words to that effect. The-e cannot be a doubt bui that the building of that Hall, and thus far preserving it as a Parly Eslablishnu at , and a rallying place on all occasions for the Rejjublicans of the City and suiTouiiding Counties, has been one of the means of our tnumiilis. I was one of the Committee who purchased the ground— made the contracts for building — and raised the money to pay for it. Tli(^ opprrations of that Committee ardious and responsible, as during the progress of the work they were frequently compelled to raise considerable sums on there- sponsr/bility of their own names. The whole establishment cost about $55,000; all of which sum v.as subscribed by individuals of the party except $ 18,000 (if I recollect right), and for which last sum the premises are now under mortgage. If ///(• party properly cstiinaled the benefit it has received from the estabHshmeni, this debt would have been cleared off by subscription long since ; but such a result, perhaps, is not to be expected. A thought has therefore occurred to ime, and which it is the object of this letter to communicate ; whether the extincticm of this debt m.av not be effected by obtain- ing the CHARTER OF A BANK, by the name of THE TAMMANY BAKK. There cannot he a more favourable prriod than the present for such an application. The large majority we have in both Houses and the good feeling evinced by the Country towards US consequent on the large vote given by the City to the dem- ocratic candidates, together with the important object of relieving Old Tarnm^uiv from its embarrassments, WITH OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, I should pre sume would carry the bill through triumphantly. The follow Liijf plan of a Bank, I think would efl'ect the object. The capital LEA.ST. The Societj the Slock. The Hank t three per cent if the Banl THREE Tils lonii, which, ii In the mi.'an three or four clear gain of $ of S li».000, a My opinion ■ Moiinpolirs in WE must hare in a party poin one alluded to. If you think men — and if, o necessary that know may he pii I vish it to Im hy surli an insii 01(1 Tammany You will, of deemed inexpet Mr. Allen is ( to read the abov tastes, of dispoi with the real fri the millions ma He would get 1 Tanamany Hall son's second ek must not be kno at variance with capital, and " tl the slock," alil preserve equal much wealth an gave the lie to tl ment," the ciiiz to carry the dece 10 pay it off out favored few. and Stephen Allen, i On the 12th di Court of Spain, i lived, as he won tioii before the T It commenced " Brothers, wt "hose object is glory." It is very probi ihus poured foni bosom. A $500,000 MONOPOLY IN TAMMANY HALL. 71 mectady Rail ace the sluck were among 3 owned that ik. John T. oung. &m. can party'" ~ n Buren and racy," (says \ trait. Sor- n for a bank y," was the for Mr. Van late ksenator, To his honor by industry, ablic esteem. jwing secret ,, N. York, 28, 1832. ^an Buren at •e, owe their ;Ued opinion ords to liial and thus far sions for the he means of contracts for the progress as on the re- It $55,000; 18,000 (if I lortgage. itablishment, uch a result, f this letter id by obtain- S'Y BAKK ! application. inced by the to the dem- :d Tammiuiv should pre DOLLARS AT Jn the mean tirn.! the stock would advance in value and If ,»',/ nf .i . three or four years, would probably be worth ten nl.r cent -^bme t ,?"' ' of * li).000, a lund more than sufHcient to clear olF the incumbrance ^ Trri'!..a^^P''^^ ^° ^^ ^I^'E HUNDRED THOUSAND LI'.A.T> 1 . thp'S'ock"''''^ "^ '^''"'"'"^ '' ^' PRIVJLIDGED to subscribe for $ 100,000 of The Hank to be authorized to hand the amount on their bond, at an interest of thre.' per cent per annum, the loan to be for three or four years. H the Hank (Uvules six per cent on its stuck th<. 'shfnrT'v u TllRKK TIlOrSAXn nor T a iV< »*> siock, tlic feULlli, lY would receive luiii.j, iiiu SAINJJ JJOLLAKh annually, ovrr and above the intercut on iHp loan, which, in three years, would amount to $9 000 In the mean time the stock would advances value,' and, ,/ sold at the end of a I possession ■ir • ,,■■;' —■■•. .Aj i.it;ai iMi uiu incumorance My opmwn you 7,0 dovl,/ hnov ,s m opjnmfiov to an mnra^e of'th,.. Fin.,! M,pnd.. rn tr Cty-bnt //.■ LrgMitiIrr WILL ZrZZ^lAZoi^^^^^^^^^ WL mvst hav, hm. there cannot be a more legitimate object to So effbCed both Jf you think well of the matter, I wish you would consult some of our leadinrr men-and 1 , on due consideration, the project should be deemed pro, or it wfll hf necessary hat a notice should be publis led of the intention o ,,?!,,/ i ln,n, may he published u-Uhovt the name of thr applicant ' ^ ^ ' ^ ^ ^"^ Iv;sh It to be distinctly understood that I cannot serve in any of the ofike, erected STEPHEN ALLEN. Mr. Allen is one of the confederates of President Van Buren nnri ;♦ ;» • ■. i to read the above letter attentively with..,,t pe ce vina tha fhp;^ ,« '^^possible tastes of disposition, and of coiKfuct M .^ AlTen wL.t o keen un nn"n "'^ °^ with the real friends of free, elective institutions hm to itt n ^ ^ appearances the millions may be more and mo I t efdo n ;S the aV or^'''°"/ ^'^T He would get his friend Hoyt to sound th^ lla£'lt' Alba'yjn" avof TS n'^ Tammany Hal into a partner in a Tammany Hall Bank, noa' tha General j"ck^ son s second election was sure, and the party stroncr in the state-but he /a ll.nC nnist not he known m the matter, becau.se he had an :,u"vard a rpearance to keeo ni capital, anl the bociety of Tammany to he priv leffed to subscribe $ 100 Omm If the stock," although the hypocrite well knew that the sodety was ins i^nH t to carry the deception further. Tammany Hal" wed i 18 0(7 H "" T" it commenced thus : u lu?e'ohw7'.r '"'",''''■■ ^'''■''*''''^ to celebrate the anniversary of an institution uhos. object ,s a ««/,.«. prosperity, and w!,„se supreme ambiucu is anMs It is very probable that .Stephen Al'^n -it -nJ :5-=-i„ i i nr - ■ 72 JUDGK mVlNG S TAMMANY ADDRKSS — COL. YOUNG, 'TH "Tli(^ iitily evil w(i li.ivi! to apin-cliiMKl. i.i iIkiI lliis iinuipnTO iiiMiiv «( wculth from f.cri-i,ji-j wlnidi'i.'iv;' riasiicitv to tlir iniml ami vi"i.r to thti Iraiiie lunmltnoiiManui-iciuiMits, with no other cliarm than their iiovi'ltv. will .supplant the treiHpnlized pleasums i'liili:i- fi'iitiiiiiiitu iif/io.ifi/ili/. III II liiiir ir/iiii i/x iifliriinii.i uliini/il /n- ),)».,/ /inn 'mill lowii." "Till' eye.-i of the iialioiis aie upon u.h, aii\iou.-.|y walciiiiii' our nioveinenls,' and iiirelv' halanrin ' im coiinnls. I he Iriends of liuinan liherty hehold us with fond .Milicilndo. not nixed wiili fearful appit. heiision, 1 h"y trust lo our iotellieeoee. Iml l/i'i/ fiiir inn- iiimiinin^ /iijiin/ niid inn/l/i. The perseriited of every clime ea-l a wishlnl r^ve lo this I I ,u proiniM'. anil hail it as thn oiilv lerre.itrial haven id rest to liie'.s weiry imd oppre.-.sed soiMiinier, l.iiieriv. e\i„! 1 eveiv oilier lo,|..enie.it, has made tlii.i her last aladm'.; plaee, and can o.il> I;,' driven aw.iy liv the perlidv of Iho.-eovei whom .she i.nw fXUMids Iut losierin',' pinions. Oh jivo not cansijof evuhation to your cnendes. iliat vour siliiation is precarious; let not voiir frienils have reason to iremhle (or your .-.ifi'ty. IJemeinh.r the eiiiins of po.-terilv re-t upon voii : thatasyi.ur lathers have laboured lor yon. .so y,ai are to liw and labour for vour children. Tl-al von are but trustees of tUe riL'lits you posse.is, wliile the ioherilanco i.s theirs." Siii'li \v:i,s l!u; liiiiirnaoo, and siicli wcfc tin- pi-inciiilrs of Tamrnaiiy Kail in 1810, May iht-y ciKliirc lor (-vcr !— :\I:iy the lovely cliildrrii of fro. . favoviMl, yoiuiai ^nlhiiii and oliirioiis Anici-ica, i-hcnt^li siicli isL'iuiinciit.s as Judirc ]rviii;^r then then' pfoninloaKal, io ilie very latest, jioyii-rily. .Little did yon imauiiu;, Stephen Allen, when your yontlii'iil hosoni heat in holy iniison with tlie. generous feelings of the gifted hrother of \Va.shiiigton IrviiiQ:, that the, hlaek night would arrive in which yon would join the perfidious hand, who fostered hy the Liherty vour fathers nohlv gtiined, are struguling to rivet on the freemairs arm the ignolde chain ot' sordill u.siirv I l^lush, .Siephen — ri ad your sceret letter, and hliish for ^-iiaiiie ! j\lr. Alleirs secret letter lo Mr. lloyt was written against the clearest convietians of his own iinnd. Age had increased, and avarice cotitrolled. The oTcat De Witt Clinton, in his Tiiessage of 181!). to the Lerrislatiire of N. Y., solemnly warned his countrymen of thr; dangers attending the wretched hanlung syslein, which had ohtamed in the Union. J\lr. Allen was chairman of a joint commillee of the Senate and Asseinhly, to reply to this message, which reply states, that there were tno many hanks — that firniers and mech;iiiies had heen allured to horrow, and had fallen a saerilice to the hniiker's avarice — that the iinnio(l(>ratP extension of haidis had pro- duced a- hanishnient of metallic money — loss of commercial conlidence — the exhibi- tion of fictitituis capital — the increase of civil in-(isecnlions — multiplication of crimes — the injurious enhancement of ])ric(>s — and the dangerous extensitui of credit.' With hanks increased liv(> tidd. if not ten fold since 181!), did Mr. Allen expect to nuMid matters hy turning Tanmiany Hall into an Usurer's den ! Von Muller, speaking of a c(>mmercial metropolis, (ancient Carthacc.) in his Universal History, slates, that " when the pnhlicr morals hecaiue ctuTupted hy weiilih, the state suHered at, the same time the evils of oligarchy ;i,id of ochlocracy. Every thing was venal '. thr party /imkrs Ihovahl onh/ of //iivisr'ris, tind the com- monwealth was neglected."' What remedy would Mr.' Allen prcscrihe in such ii case, think ye ? A 'I'ammnny Hank I ! Mr. Van "iJnrcn has associates whom he likes. One of these is Stephen Allen. lie has others whom he does not like. One of these is Coloiud Yonuf. [Post mark, New York. April 15.] Albany, April 13, 1821. L)k.vr Hovt — Politloal allairs stand well. T/ir nominalion of Yovm: has drfratd (If plans of lite opposition; and though I iliil irhat I nmh/ TO PlM-U'EiNT* ITS *C iloiii?! Yoiin'.', lik? Senator AUnii. nw"? his rise to liis own ability, cimriv. indii.stry, laloat and per- .sf!vprauce. His forelathers, like tl\osp of i\Tirhael HolViiiau. worn ffom Irelaiid. The closi' of the warof |s|'2. (oimd t'llonel ViiuiiL'. in the very prime of life, al the head of the House of Assembly of the Slaleof Aew \ork. as their Speaker— and when tlioir session ohised on the I'.llhof April. IS]."), the exxellenl adclre,<,< ol ihe republican incmliers ui tiieir e;c,-to;-s, is ,~ijned at the top of llie firsl tolunui hy Samuel Y'liuni;. wiio wrote 11, anil near the bottom of the last by IMarliu Van Huron. Ft Is also siiined by Nailianiel PilcheV. O'iden Edwards, F, A, Bloodcood. W. C, Bourk, Eraslua Knot, Viithan S.mfoid, Jidin Wells, and many other eminent men- -and it thus concludes : NECESSITY that could be do l\vi)-tliirds of I dcntial qncstio matters go as i next session, branches. Rel ■■ The nian who li .iroiiiiil her : who h: whii ha.1 ilirowu Im anil to parlii'iputc h III \-i'M, Mr. Bull didite for ollice. an prniioiiuced in the *PPEI.,VTION mPH /ill SE.VTI.Mli.VTS Il/I0>l Ii iroidil, /irf'iiiriil^ a Till! Colonel Youn Ciiliiiiel Voiina: (if IS- threw up his .seat in scnil liack to their ci frauds— and jn ih,. f,, ihi- ^illlplicity of tho piliziiii' the rishta of 'Mrru|jiio,i." i'laiii I Hiiyts. Barkers. Bcin bijltiriiisf/vr-s in tlii.s It i.s evident that tl (jOO members of the i'alo.j fur Governor in H'ri^'ht (now Governi party all supported Y. Youn? was noininatei charter .system-— anil a and Atla.s play the fav ofwliom the Colonel i A party in New Yi Heilerliued, but reiini i'lbliy and a few men triumphal car ofaRoi '■ Tammany Hall," iiMniipiilists, and corn ii.iniiins, comprise a Ij country. They have i paling in the legalized "fa secret society, hir the General and .Voiniii If llii-i is the truth i m the State, for the Co the A'rf ninu- Post tliu; delegations are a series "It is a fact, admltte corrupt to the core. O nature are o[ienly and u subserve the inlerest.s o ivho dares expose theit Iraiid.s, (ir propose iiieas people." Our next chapter will "n, " like a greedy pac >vilh the Custom l^ouse This note clo.ses witl "alpnle, Earl of Orfori and plunged into acarec diiyn her people to pove ihoir ijuoble seryitiide, I e.vauiple ? " They s.ay //jp Bank i ireme. Yea, verily, ilie n drained, and ha.snola and sunk their inannfict "i-allh, filled hy nabobs 6v hnrw-r-aces ! .K gam allies ; the over-grown all 10 it'n sonrcc!!, may ii'iM inlii foreiirri Ik! ciiliivuiiiiirui lonil laliiiiii's on- 1 ciuiter all ihi'ir llii'iM fn.ni ihfir II! Ilixiiriniis oily III s'liilwiMrjiiii; :''ir 111 llui lii'iiiic. nllizt'il iili'iisiim .iiii-i.' (if iiaiidtnl (• at' iKitriolisin: '■ri'sl. Ill' iiitliiciil (nifU . " V liiiliiiiriil,' (iiif li I'l'urfiil appii:- [) only temisli'ial il. liuH iniiile tliii l.lUV I'Xtl'Ulls llIT Mill yoiii- liicnih lit : tli;it ns your i; lull irilslocsiif Tnll ill 1810. iri.'d, ydiuiii, L( tlieii tlieit! 'plii'ii Allen, •linjjy of tlie vo ill which I'atliers iidhlv liii ot' sonliil t poiivictidiis ■cat Du Witt ^ warned his , which had it'tho Senate re wi're too III! hail lalleii iilis had pni- — theexhilii- on of crimes 1 of credit/ en expect to ace.) in his '(irrupled hy ' (ichlocracv. id the coiii- e in such a I)lien Allen. 13, 1824. //o.s drfralrd KNT* ITS laloat ami piT- ,liz.n2 Ihi. n^hts of iho many, and h'-i.^lalion tm si e-in m l U ' ni .,., ^ ^''^ *^^'\'' ''^ K^'I'i'iHy mono. cnrru|ji ." I'lain lanuiia-e ihi.s '-Inii nm • u ii ,1 li •^"'V'" "J Imrgain anil sale, of venality and Hoyts. Barkers. IkMnioits, ami C«idi, ■' li s whe U m^^^^ that of the Aliens, Bmler., Van B™ b,jth,„..,n-rs in this volume ! """"-'""*'■ '^1'"'' l"^'""'! H"' «''ene,s. \\ it„e.ss their sentiments recorded (.5; nf ;;?;:^,n^';:i.^v':\!J:;i:ii/r:^rTw;r:;^ --y --p-t. The caucus ialo, fur Uoveriior in profen.'ni-o to \oi n- wh. 1^111 Tiimm^l'.v. "^ ■-'" "''-'■'"' ^" ""■-" ^^ ""lection of H-ri.hl (now Governor) also s,,oke ^.^YZ^l^af^TT^ asdnPp" '"'•''"'"' '"'Pl'-"-'''We enemy." party all supported Yales," .«ays the Patriot 1" In l n,, I'l fli ''"' \J Livmj.ston. •• The Van Buren Voun? was nominated, l.nt ma ele tod H e / I ws Ur t^R \\ ^''- .'^''"y •="""""' ''^ ^"'^^ charler,sysien>--an,latl'■'" ever surrounded the palingln the logalize'd'rpoiU o Tv^ex " .Zmo™ y' "^1^^"^^' -'T r^'"' "^ '^'^ "-" "" P^'>i'^ • f a secret society, hiivnl presses, thislaves of fflce' ancj the ■ knitn fsnt: "'r'"",''' ''"'' ""^ ''«^''<'«nce theGeneral and .Vominainig Committees to proinott^ihe ohjects^.f rstomcv- '' ' """^^ C'^-cu^and pack ". U^tll'tr ^,SiZ^'^]^';%|:^t!«V^/'i;?;'^"i,^ TT^' T''^^ "- "•-'• ^"-t men ...^ *^.,.,,,„^ ., ua, „„|3 iriiiiKly coillu: Jelesations are a series of base frauds : nature are o,ieiily and unblnshinaly practiced irsec,?re do e 'oof ^^^ ?h» '^y-"?."'- ^ ^ufls of the basest snbserve the interests of a few corru t poCia ,s- . to h committees, who will vlio dares e.vposo their prolli^acv lie nrofli"ai v , f ihn.„ J ' \P- '^ ",' ''"""'l^. set upon anv man frauds, „r pro ,030 measures of >efon by wl id/tl e loinhia^ hmrm-, v I"' f'^'^'i"" > '" '^'^'" ^''»'"^>"S people." "' ™'"^" t"" uominations may be brought directly home to the Jj>vn her people to poverty iiTthe s it^ f vvSi T, T'""' '!'"' ",'T' ^^.'^ '"''^""■^ "^ "'''id' have chainei :J-;-ohleservit.^e, huf^lltlllS^t^l^i^l^I^t!^- Sr;;^^/'^^^^ '^ ramed, and has not a shilling n"eVXslnolth%^^ ' ""=' '"r'"'"y '" " "''*'^"'- ri-eland »"J sunk their n,annfactn,r Ir linv ™fer el, , " (vii5"f*F''"f ■^''""'' 'hem almost as low, ea th, filled by nabobs and emptied by inaccaronis ■ A ^nate so d fnifn"'' ""h'i' a^ ='"" "^ ''""»" In hnrsAMrnQ I A ___,■.._ ,->i; "' """-^-."101113. A oonaie, solcl. Bud despi.sfid ' 4 roup'r" ovo-r-in the^ergr^™ :;;^w^:^'ir^|!-' ^"'""^ '"'"^'■'' ""''°"' p""^^'««> genit:s,"cf^t:i^r:':;; 10 bv aliiea 74 Jefferson's theory, vs. hoyt, Lawrence & cos practice. CHAPTER XVIII. Jefferson on govrriunrnt infcrfirenns at elections. Swarttcovt, Lawrence, Price, Allen, find Wrtmorc's jiraclkv. Jn.'^pector (Jgd.vry, Van Ihinn rcconirntnds General Spicer of Itiv " //. iS. Lombard''' for office. Shetch of Prosper M. Wtt- more. Alderman Pur-ly's petition, and Qunr/ienlio.is's counlir-pttition. Acthe Politician's pay office. Custom House. Proscription for opinion. Nciv Tam from St. Tammany. Butler cnragul at Clinton's exposure of the " organized corps." Col. Decatur. John MacGee's vay to Office. Mr. Butler has the word of Gdd constantly in his month. JIow far he seeks to square his conduct by his favorite standard let this memoir show. Mr, Van Buren professes a devoted aitachinent to the principles of JelFt rson and the civil revolution of 1800. Is it for the imiifjination of man to conceive any course of conduct more at variance with the doctrines of the sage of Moniicelio than the practice of ihe tenant of Lindenwald '! Let us compare Tammany Hall practice with the following extract from a letter- Thomas Jefferson to Governor McKean, a signer of tlie Declaration of Inde- pendence — dated VVasliington, February 2d, 1601. " Till this [the Election of President] is known, it is too soon for me to say what " shouUI be done in such atrocious cases as tliose you mention, of federal officers " obstructing the operation of the State governments. One thintr I will say, that "as to the future, INTFIRFERKNCES AT ELKCTIONS. WHETHER OF "TMF, STA'I'E OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BY OFFICERS OF THE "LATTFR. SHOFLD BE DEEMED CAI'SE OF REMOVAL; BECAUSE "THE CONSTITUTIONAL KEMEUY BY THE ELECTIVE PHINClPLE "BECOMES NOTHING IF IT MAY BE SMOTHERED BY THE ENOR- " MUUS PATRONAGE OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT." Immediately after the fall election of 1834, Messrs. Cornelius W. Lawrence, Wm. M. Price, Stephen Allen, J. R. Whiting, R. Riker, Daniel Jackson, Gid'n Osirander, Gideon Lee, and W. P. Hallett addressed a letter to their friend Samuel Swarlwout, requesting that F. Ogsbury might be appointed an Inspector, as follows; " New York, 22d Nov., 1834.— Mr. Ogsbury is an old inhabitant of this city- " a firm supporter of the administration— and IN THE LATE ELECTION " WAS ACTIVE AND INFLUENTIAL." Mr- Jefferson believed that interference at elections by officers was criminal — the Jeffersonians above named held out $ 1100 a year, and a sinecure, as the bribe for beiuL'' aciive and influential at elections. The reward to follow close upon the service. If office is to he the immediate reward of active electioneering — if 500 jildces, at from 500 to 35,000 dollars a year income, are the fair recompense of struggles at the polls, the victors to have the sjjoils, is not the elective principle " smothered by the enormous patronage of the general government?" and will not violence, bully clubs, bribing presses, lying tongues, and all the evils attending wholesale corriipti(m be among the resulis? Why did Morris and Varian invade Pierce's sanctuary at 12 P. M. on a pretended mission of purity of election, if 500 prizes are ready to reward the men who can gain a victory, no matter by what means! The merchants require himest, indifferent, capable officers about the Customs. Are Messrs. Allen and Lawrence more partial to active, influential, one-sidd partisans? If so, and they can continue their system, the fair outside of our goodly republican tree will soon exhibit incurable rottenness at heart. Twelve thousand dollars have already rewarded, in part, Mr. Ogsbury's " influ- ential" labors of 1834. His services now are so easy that thousands would gladly perform them well for a sixth of hi.s income. Mr. Ogsbury, though he did not pro.( musier in E.vlract of a loHet b.iiiy, Jan 8, 1^31. Wetmnre's conned compelled him to re: 10 becaiLie thej a 111 as the great sui Quarter IVIa^ler Geni the 2Ah re»'i of art seaeralahip or other paiiy. Nothing con years. The Naulilu membrane for a sail, and the alorni ri.sin weaihjr. This is no General Prosper pr my. The General, i Assembly. If jmt |„|,r me.jtiii^'," in that w; iiiilaivl'ul piiwer when ter, or vote for a new and destriiclive of the The te-iiimony of V Fads, Readc. &c., at in? Post, shows that P ilk may find the Bu Tlie native honesty ai The Hudson [nsnra fentson the dollar thi Albany charter cost t with Barker, and Tho dent. In a few monti aiiMiint of, say #2j0,n aii'ilhere.xira.infaniou iile.it, and the aciive i sjick each, payinir in The Legislature had ai lie, the fllayor and Rei altend, Hyatt, the p imd.m] was all paid Kfiowing this state oft actually represented tl check, with the others tradesmen's Bank wl (-'" , which lent it chiel liJil been pntfed up to 1 P''ifils, of course, thou; nym'a trial that he wi 'ion to iis concerns, an- 31(1 Van Buren .-im ^i-or i-om'iard Co could now fiispoctins people— the set 10 raise cash upon, dead loss. Hyatt had b :TICE. irence, Price, I rcconiTMnds iper M. W'tt- lion. Actiu A«« Ta.ru '. " organized far he seeks V. Mr. Van and the civil my course of elio than the om a letter- lion of Inde- B to say what jcleral officers will say, that ETHER (IF tS OF THE BECAUSE ^HINCIPLE "HE ENOR- '. Lawrence, ckson, Gid'n riend Samuel r, as follows: if this city— ELECTION ;riminal — tiie the bribe for n the service. UO jildces, at struggles at " smothered not violence, ig wholesale ade Pierce's if 500 prizes vhat means! he Customs, ial, one-sM Litside of our ary's " influ- would gladly nate in being Swartwouts the appoint- PROSPER M. WETMORE AND THE V. S. LOMBARD. fB General S,,ice wrrk.!,, nffinp hn".' ""''/"^ '«''.'» ^"^^'P" ■" Offshury's fav„r. be-'ar... Ho vvrm^ tn mV '''"'" •'""'^'■'''"'i rode his mure far ahead ot'ordinarv b foV; h:a ion :2/ nto^^^^^^ March 2.Uh 18-,, nu.ro than a J,tal been tender-^d tl. c o l^c , j.ip a^ if ^'h '/s''^'"'' '"""'I *'''/ ''^' (^"-^ '""» (.S.v.'s) dei.uty. " I Si a c. nvi io . " ' ^ ^^^\-\l!"''' '^'"^^''"'^ ''i'nsdf as Ins 'Mh., Ly LLJ experience w.;:;','d ^ ""^' ^'^ ^^"'""^ '"'"^-^ ^'^'"^". conlidence refer to the inemlipra of //.,. r„ ." • ' *''"' w^h Stitefortheclaims I nAv becLideri^Hl '""'"'^ ^"''^ "J '"'"-"'''" «"r city and / am AUTtfORIZro/o refr/oZf^ ^Z'V T' ''""'■■''^''' conciderauon. 0,nMmg for MY POLIT cil S1^'%mL "" ^"^T ""'' '^^ ^'"'- C"- C. adding the%ames.fBe„y.m,n£?i;and^^^^ 1\IT'' ^' J^^^A'^'' i" me of thetr disposition tcJarance my views ''"" ^^ ^' ^^'^"'' "^° '"^^ ^^"^'^^ patrons fl,u„d the run of aUr^Uc^^^ nrlB^rrwhi;'!^^" ^'" "'' .;km Vic. President. The' p^bilc w^re S VemTni; " .'''iyrnT;,', '"'"T'" ^^"■^'"; ' '^' ^^el,;,!,;;' «m died by a N V. Graml Jury, Sept. 1.", H26 w ih Krim "'*'""'«' '" " f'=w .iKmllis-Prn.per was in- compelled liini to rL-.i^'n. He is co il. . ,tlv . '"" ""'?'' '""^^'^ '■"'"l«My, the 'Ail, rec'i of a iillerv 10 — l,ocau..e they tl .,"hl .e co'ld J bu^ "\L'"= '"""'"•y' ">^"y "f wlmin ,„r„ed he e?« a.,1 as the greal .uu or sW. rt v,,uT , L uls ' T^"""■ ^^ ""'"""'■• "."'•" '"' "'« ''"'"'"^ "f Lexi„gt..,. Ix the 27ih re?'i of artillery irainpd lir nrViVi. |. ,,/'i V ""'"^r "'o '^^'^t '^ a.s staled 1 know not. but if It be so ?eaeral.hip'oroiheri" H32 Ge-ea Wp^^^^ 7 ""'""' """^ * character. Throop gave him so,,?; pa,>y. Nothing c..uld he nnre ap r ?prilu thi . . ,d 'a'Tme'tbr ', h"'''' '^ ^'^ '''""""" ^''^ ^"'"'^'^>' ^' years. The Nautilu.s floats saily c , IhTsorfacp nf il w, L, I'^ '"durance con,pai,ie..i of the last twe„ty membrane f,.r a sail, a.id eniov.^ itsplf R , fh " "'"■■ '? ""*■ '^•''""- f'''!" weaiher-spreadd om a ih m ami the .torn, rLsi/..^" a ^'in^: ' , ' t, fai vrom'o/'Ji't ',"'' ^'"^ '"""'"":! ^^"'- '^^e waverrolli g"^ imlaalul pnwer when it cliariered iCL-n'a 'a ' i,-^^ re.o ves, thai the State had usurped ter or vote for a new one. i., „ '"'"'^' '"'"'^ » ^har- aiiil destructive of the pul.lic welfin. i "^''" exclustve pr,vilege3 are essentially fraudulent «-ith Barker, and Thot.m Hyau' sen fihe ne f,""?'"- ""^ *^- '^^ ^""^" ^"'l I^I"'-'^ S^l'^ncer.^frund cudty 'lent. In a few ,,,.nths thev co llr'ved o .^ot*^ nft- '''■^- ^^"^ .a""^"? '''e -lirectors-Hyatl being preJl^ a".n.nt of, .,ay $2:,0,(m the la ,,e B ow > I v^a-V'^sL'"™'"''"'? i^'"'" """f '''■''' "'""''y value.'t. the aivnl,ere.xtra.lnfan,ouscha,-tere.lc m,v?r^ if-v V '^If "^f • '""l Wetu.ore next figure as Dirpctors i,i "le.it. and the active ,„an f b ,s ne^ siv PP-^n L"""«.'-' C"-. Hyatt, president. Wetinore. Vice pres iio.k each, p.ayln. in 5 cemV r^tt^lonLr ,o s^ 71 eXt "^^^ '^T"' '"'" '"'" '''«"''"''f 'he stock, to blind the pnb- aiteiid. Hyatt, the Dre-iide, , „„l l! ^ ,1 ''"^'■"'"•''' '" H'e act, ex-olliclo, but never once Invited to immoi wa/alf p^irup Vl 'iKUiiTer tll,^^ """ "'"""^'^ "'> ^«'"'''^i^ that the stock knowing this state of,hin.,t was Zvel on ih^^^^^,^^^ ,t , u-^,"'" "'" 'I' ^^^''"^y ''ail been so paid-and actually represented the lims to be ^o ri l,, fi ,^,"^ Welmore continued as anaciive manager, and ;. eok, with the others, to ,w(!")ro,?hfs st ck rZI-i^yj'^'^'T "« (W«t,nore) gave his nioonshl ,e lm.lesmen's Bank, which Jve the L mhar,?a ftW^ .r«m ?. nf Vi'^" "^,'""^' ''"'•' 'l<"P"«ile.l in the Lo which lent it chielly to, tss,KkioE"srockT;,w.^^ whici, credit was lent to the Hudso,, '■i*cver!! ar ovcrriili'd him. Cti.siom House Peter Field, the ('(un'ra of (jistoms, a tax nil winch Fgbe lilts" — went to (liuniKid sons of (iainn you, I wi That there ai printed leaves, i oioiis — can be p The C-'ommis suliscriptioiis w two or three da had an allercati reported to Mr, sub.scripiions. motion for the \ I have tilread, liberties of the i ing disciples of Extract of a "There is everj has communicat panied WITH grral/i/ throughi, I don't think can get a living Extract of a X. York. — datei nomination for o Customs. Mr. ] and a slrniaus at * Siirli are the pin Mesvain to I lie I,(.L'is "iir:.Miiized ami disci • iciiiTal .liisefih G. Sh Fire Iiisnrauce Cii. . i iiniriicifd I lie Naval (lie wlm!.' Navy Viird ri'voltiii:,' Io every fric Clliiloii. "i.s tliewor.- I'l'lreeiloin, it cnuiliiin iIm> lilierlie.i of free sii -lillili!: his full perHii iiiirii'd ill ohlivion, he Ih" n-piililii- liy hi.H co .Vever was a posit ii much on the iuerease, Portsmouth, May A niiiut, l;iiely a resider He is a gentleman wh l-ite .\av:)l st.ire Keep yars IMr. Blunt has s laithfiil ill ilm perforii no man wliom I wouk nnd (ijienhj adrocatK, by Mr. Hlimt has heer "nsurceririfuHv. Sh.-"i maligiKinl sHafts oft which I presume i/'uu mine, and I Iherel'ore t "jjpoiiilmeiU ill till: C; DE WITT CLINTON EXPOSES • THE ORGANIZED CORPS.' 77 ofliro worih party iiuli- [ciUHe. about to bt ;ctor of the » his utinnst tid Qn/ijiia- IJHDY." mmend him lie ofTioo of HKOOK, VEUR. vout. lie habit of lo, after tiie It has been h have now ii/r charartcr )onents and ;uar(led how jointment of I be ({(fended nomination, iley, Junior, y worthy of [ratifying lo ionally so to 4B0SS." I you about an appoini- le by giving :nboss. ngly rccotn- character— vlcdge, very ' many more sets. He is s,' and as a )mmitted by in Mulligan, ig eollected. , a mockery Post, on the e of the knave Jrown and olhei " moved by ihe ihe same worili. ankriipt securr We have seen city to proltact Ihih J-r Mun-h hi«t strong, pointed and well merited rensurcB. Mayor Morris nuned h..m out ol he police. I'he Post having directed h.. eensures Jl I ecorS! l.lliu.tdge, wa,s ai orined ihat ho had been really anxious to have inflicted a fa more .severe and a,ie.,uate punishment, but that .lMr,„.« Purdy and \ an.krvoor ovcrnil..! h.m. Sweet, an active, violent parly politician, onee behmged to the ( nsloin HoiiH-, and most probably i.s on pay there now I'eier Field an Inspector whom Mr, Uoyt had removed, testified on oath before te oin r., of Impiiry, in 1811, that Tammany Hall assessed every office of the (ustmns, a tax lor eleetione..ring ."xpenses. One time he (Field) w^ould not pay- oiMvh.eli Mien (...Sweet, also an Inspeetr.r, said to him "You'll be s. rfy^for his -went to a book, tore <,ut a list of the Inspectors, &e., saying, "A i\-lu .huniu.l sous of bitches that don't p.y up will be .sorry for it. . ^ ^Z .lami. you, I will rememb..r you for ii." Soon alter thi.s Field was pui'out" Ihat here are .such reports m.-idi, by spies among the (Ju.tom H.m se Officers on printed leaves, and in other eurious ways and shapes-secret, partial, an'-"'--■ '^ '•««'^«''" long hHoiv the p,.„pl.., R,. thn ovil i« n . 1 ,» , '^"'- J"'"" Decatur lo Collnrliir Swariwoni 78 JOHN MACOKE—CUSTOM HOUSE POLtCE. Extractor a letter— RiVAflr^ Cormrrir, Rronklvn, Dec. 20, 1832, to the same— " Permit me to iiitrodiu-e lo you my IVietut Mr. John Mar.OfP, iind solicit from yon the favor ot'ohtainm!? iho ai)i)iiitjtirn!iU of on*; of the Inspectors of (histoms for said port. Mr Mac(iet> is ii uiiiitlemaii of jj'""' moral character, iiidiihtrioiis hal)its, and in my opinion calciilaied to make a useful ofTiccr in your (l('|iarimeut. From lux aj)- pcaran.r in piMir tifi — and that is coeval with his ape — hr lias litni a fin,' and uniform supporter of drmorrntir vrincipl'S. and i'spr'r< ill IiIh iIimiIi my t'.illiur and irKitlnti lie' iUTiiU'iilnhi'd lliii UK' Hiiic k (ilif balajici ere 11 t;.vt'rliHiiH, anil v ilU.I' ■ ll'illl I'lldl IlK'U ,llll .llll'lllptl'll to llll i i,\i I'uli'iiNiiiiiii.s, ami I Minjiirliiiii's, Ills sdirf n-,H tiiviTeil liy iinun lu'eii iilliiTivim! till! \H ri'vjvi' lilt a ciminIiIimmI Mr. K'l'i! wlilii',< til w ir lo my cldc.il hroihor, Gcorao UNhoeirer (llii-y wcro i'"';.";f ' ■'' '",- ''••;»'' ' !^'r ,"''""''■■ '■" ,'''' ^^''"' ■'''■'•''""'' ^^' """'" '" '•'" "» ""i' •>"' '"'"H""' ! ilm »i,„k al ll,,- tlin.i oriiiH direiuc, fur their fnluri; rnnif.rt ili-Voro |„. ,uTnn.|,|Hh,.(l this h« lHM:ain.. i,m,lrn,l, hnl a.tr.l «itl, ...„n(l Caiih to his -ran.l ,mr..ntH and paidtheni for liiL-HiHck ulic hal.i,,,'.' lino ,,i hi. fadnro iNinnL' Hinall ) llr iImmi pnH.'urrd a roiea-t- lioni his crodilorfl l.y cr,Ml(,vfrionH and wiih the aid ofaiiinofrifnda went into tho (iiiH-.iry hii^iiuw In ('h«rry Nlr.rl which ,„i,|. I„ilh nidi niecl appiiroatly. l,nsi May he ro vod his Hi„ro Into Cnont,...' Slip, and look a iiariner ,, ,;| .illi'hipliMl to d.. a holtor hir-im-.s- hnl llio i-lmnuf ihal .■iinie ovor the l.ii.nncH.. cinmunllv ovi'i-m-i uII huraliMluiioiM, and 111! hiu hepii wa.siniif hw moans .-vrr aincu in m'cossary oxpfiisoM. T,. ;rowii all hii n.Nlnrtiini-. Ins Morf look hro the early pan of Alairh, anil hi.i wholo Ntock waa lo.^l Thorirh iho slock uMHCoviTcd hy iniunini-o. it had hmi pn.cnrcd momly upon rroilit. and niiiM h.. paid for: and I'Voii if it hid Veil 01 ii-rwino iho pi-ospnu of don,!; lMisi,ii..H,s f„r a li.n'- wIiIIh i, \.h\ a hop'HiMs ono Triido i.i iioi likol> lo n.vnT Ml a coiiNidoralilu iM^riod-and Air llnsotliinks \n- iiiiHt finally irivo wp. Ciidor llioio cirruinMaii'-.i ..Ir. K«*i' WHli.',i to wilhdraw fr hia liimnes.-i. and lake audi an app..inuii.-nt as will.iiVoid him « livelihood lir a ii'\v' yrara. }U ii>n ninwernt nf our i,l lhesli,nn of Ultigu'ir^ i„ l^M, and suHorod in his hiisinnsH Home on tlialncionnl. Am .My liroiher Ihe Judso. i\lr. Jordan and ililloHs .-.[nki'ii to you on this siihjprl. J0.SEPII OAHNiSb, with wlinni I havu Iwon acqnainlid for years, is applying for the ollir,. of Ininect He n a »iiil .).) yars of a.^n and wa,^ fnnnorly a clerk of L'oliMniir the Crockery Dealer In Broadway wh. your wife ha.s purchased Cliina ware freipifiilly. 07, "in or. where Giniiss hoards willi my motliPiin.law.iiiid has forwvoral years. H.Mxiards in John street (2d ward ) I know him «el I-Am ,,ol,l,c.i are of the ri^lit knnl Kvery day al dinner GarnlHa and I have a regular corivcraa- iHiiie with the W higs al tahle, and I have found him firmly and enthusiastically attached to the adminis- .\lihiiii-li I have no pfrnonn/ inlrrpM in his application, I know nf no youni; man I could more cordially mMinme.ul to your notice Imth on account of his |i„litic.s and capantv. I place him only next lo Mr Hose iiillie interest 1 leel m hi.sappliciition. Owing to climme in trade and the necessity of economizing Mr Cleniar was ohlnied to , isnii.is Mr. Garni.ss, ami every dcparlmei.t seciiw to he filled in other placei Hhcre he ln,s sMiight lor omploymenl. " •■• "wn,i jjiucls He is a single man. is son of Daniel Democrat, as I merits. As lii' my own knowledge of his caiiacity. I caii's-iy no'ViKlre 'tiikn 'iTiat'i' Imlie^ve'hi'm To'te qual'i* fieii for some situation of small salary. His futher has miitriliuled lihernHy in moneu to the Democratir parly and it teould be securing a large family interest for the administration, if the appointmenl James Mo.nhoe Win.shii', a young man, 19 years of atre, applies for a Clerkship He v Hiiiship, butcher of Fulton Market, and resides in the 17ih ward. IJe is of course a kiinw from repeated conver.sationa. Yon have seen him at your house, andean juil''e se fi. could be made. aEOBOE \V. Shourt wants tlie place of Carlinan lo the Ptihlic Store in N'.assau street. As he has K'^.i yod on the subject, and you know his politics, you can form an opinion of his merit, and ilie exoe- meiicy of doing what he wishes. He has for some lime been the Carlmaii of the Jurening I'ost carrvinir d,iily the mail papers to i he Fost Ollice. He is a 15th warder, and yon can take care of him without ay urihig Irom me. •■■uu» on/ Edmi-.sd J. Gross Is a , applicant for the place of Inspector. Ho is of the lOlh ward. Of course he is a Ueinocral. I iniroiln ,1 hiin to you one day in your ollice in Wall street. He is a married man of about 4.) years of aie. Jiulsnii,' from Ins appearance. He is a re.speciable man. anil would, I have no doubt, fill ih? place creditably. He relics much on my influence in lliis business, but I hare no particular interest in his application. .Monreaiid others, endeavored to defeat you'r appointirienl. He is at present a letter-carrier In the Post Ollice, and though / at one time felt disposed to do all I '^"Idfor hun, some tilings liave induced me not lo urge you strongly in his favor. He is in the 10th «-ir(l— and has a f.miily. Mr. Coddingloii can tell you about him. The above applicants are all 7ifip ones. Of tiiose who are already in the Custom House I will speak as follows : James Westervelt Is a Weii^hcr, and has spoken to me about his situation. He la thoroushlu loco- .raw. ami ought not 10 be removed. There is no objection to his being retained that I know of. fie has '■Knx m oflice alxiiii eighteen months. Pefer Coutant is an Inspector, and has been in office about a year and an half. I know him well He u'T Z-l- -fi"']^^' ?/ <""• P^^'y- Old Gilbert Coutanl is his uncle. He has beti^ persecuted formerly uie v> higs. and had to abandon his business in consequence. He ought to be retained by all means Ha I' -ioiMiilaw of Daniel Winsbip. TnoMAS KiiiK * is a Weigher, and now in oiricc. He has not spoken a word to me 00 the subject of his utiii^' retained, but I cannot omit the opporlunily, while I am making these memorandums, of recommend- i.i?. cordially, his reappoiiilment. ''Kirk wa.s removed by Van Ness, hut, being a stronj friend of Van Buren, was soon restored to offcs by lawrence. He is now an inspector. ' 80 ESVIONAGE — DOUBLE FEES JEROMUS JOHNSON. OLI He 13 a fine old ?entloman. of nnr politics ; and has been a constant visitor at the ofTice of the Erenin' I'ost, whiiro he frerineiilly dj^ronrsi's on politic.-;— and, of coiiMc. Ills ofiinion^ are well known to Brvai't and rny.selt Hi> wa-i imco of the firm of Kirk and iMcrcoin, Booksellers of this city. JosKi'ii Diiiivi.OL's is now an Inspector, ami wishes to he iransftfrnd to the French Jloor in the Public htore ni .Vissan street, where ilio p,iy is the same as he now wis, and which chan'je woidd enable him (ori account of 'Tealur ciinvenieiice in the hours of hn.siness) to pay sumi: iilliiilion lo ul/irr ma/lirs, and mah. nis iw;oiiii' /,rliir~m railicr i-iia!i]i' him to msiruci his children in some hranches of education. Inihis etore he wonhl lie attendaiil upon the appraisers, Kiiowiii2 his politics lo he (liciihUli/ ])iiiwcratir, I would recommeiiil, if nolhin? interfered in your opinion, his tran.^ler to the I'nblic Store. Ho is a eood jiid-e of Krcnch arlich's, and iiiiirht l;e of service in that (leparimeiit. Amon'T those who are opposed to the ,-idminislralion. and in olhce, thi've i.s A. S. PkPevster, (weigher i He is a thoromrh Whii:. hni has nr^ed .some Democrats to speak lo you for him. Look out for him \ lie told Mr. Daniel Winshipthat 'Mr. Van Buren wa.s a dain'd little rascal," or words to that effec- and this loo very ririnlhj. S.vMi-EL B. t'l.iiMi.vc; "is a f'u"Sf?rTO//rc Democrat of the rankest sort. He was a strenuous advocate for Lop s appoi.itmiMit lo the roHecior.diip— and said before you was nominated, '• Who the Devil is Mr. Hovt '■ AVho ever heard of him .'" Ac. IlKN'iiv K. Fiio.sT. a Cle;ic. I know to he the rankest Whiu lirentliinL', and oiil'Iu to be removed without scrii|)le. Ckohoe KifAHi). an Fnsperlor. hiis Ix-en In olhce several years, and is, I nndersland. in eond pecuniar- circ-imslance.s. and could live willinut the olii.-e. He is from the inih ward. He scarcely ever attends our meeiinirs. and is, in a political point of view, u men ifroni: Let liim he removed ! HiiNiiv \y*****T, an Ins|ieclor, is .i drunken bejst. ami notwithstaiulincr liis politics, he oimht to be renv.ved. This is |)iil)lic .sentiment v.herevcr he is known. .\nv one in the teiilh ward wil! say soT" I Hen; ends the Ulshoeffer iMenioraiida. | Mr. UL^hoetrer's iiopliew, Rose, who " is atlemocratof our stamp," and "breast- ed the storm of whigijery," had an oliice, and his uncle was" " raised in the esteem" of tlie House of Uishoefler. The crockery-man's clerk where Mrs. Hoyt bouo-lit her china, I know nothing of. " A large family interest was secured for the adiniiiLstratiou" by pivinir the bntchev's boy a" situation of small salary." As Kirk's politics were endorsed by " iirvant andmvself,"' after daily discourses at the bureau of tlie Po.st, he kept in the'saddle. Whether the Israelite, Drevfous, was transferred to tin! Freiicli tloor I have not heard— but it is very probable, as " his polilics were (hrida//:/ demoeratic."' W. J. Bogus, tho' •' thoroughly demo- cratic," was no favorite. Hiiri he turned over to Coddington. James Westerveit, the weigher, was reported to be " throughly loco foco"— and was retained. I do not know the man, but by reference to Mr. Revburn, President of the St. Patrick's Society, N. Y.'s evidence before the Commission, July 9, 1841, pa^e 638, No. 212 Congress documents, it will appear that this Westerveit, not content with $ 1500 easily earned from government, mulcted the merchants heavily where he liad the chance. If the law gives a measurer or weigher a certain number of days to make returns to the Custom House, and the merchant wishes sooner to learn the weight or measure, as often hapjiens, he must pay a heavy bribe, com- pensation, or fee (call it what you will) for the information. "Mr. Reyburn received about 98 tons of iron by a CTlasgow vessel— asked Westerveit for a copy of his return of the weight, and obtained it on paying a few cents less than twenty dollars! I could have made a copy in about as many minutes, if a measurer is asked for a copy of the weight of a quantity of coal, the by-fee is $ 5. Well may Mr. R. ex- claim that this is "very demoralizing!" Why, there is no more use for 17 measurers at $ 1500 a year each, nor for any one of them, than there is for 17 chaplains to read morning prayers in the barge office — it is merely a poor pretext for rewarding 17 MacGees, Wcstervelts, Purdys, Spicers, and Ogsburys—" active politicians," or their friends. Secretary Ewing or Forward, reported in favor of abolishing these sinecures, but the difficulties in Mr. Tyler's cabinet caused his resignation. Mr. Walker's forte would rather lie in increasing swc/t patronage than lessening it. 'J'iie family of UlsboefTer, as has been seen, kept one eye steadily fixed on their own interest. Jeromus Johnson, member of Congress, Appraiser, and " democrat of our stamp," did not seriously differ from them in his views of Custom House Republicanism. Jeromus Johnson was a sort of a pillar in Tammany. I think I remember him as a legislator on " the regular" ticket as far back as I^IQ. In 1822 he was chair- man of the Committee of the Assembly to which Ui.' North River and Fulton Bank charters were referred— but whether he approved of the Commissioners who gave Alderman Rathbons $500,000 in stock, by which h« cleared $74,000 with- out much outh very. Mr. Vj jiraiser's office Jeromus vote ,< bait — was in d and signed the nouiiced tho pr charge of their offices at home collei5tion of tl 1829 to 1811 is the deposits to secretary. " ) the president, you know," an and retire?" w, in a present to die supple Tan Jeromus Joii sign appraisemi in such a setoff Johnson had be^ N. Y.P 0.,C and active poiiti "New York, Sir — Mr. Jan station in our ( ment. I fully coneui " Mr. Mauric lo Gen. Jacksor Here is anoth New York ^i^ned subscribe one of the Custo him too alhom/s 1 M. I H. 1 WII Immediately b iheet and page oj " Dear Sir— V for offices in the IT MAY ESCA IS A NEPHEA Ward, was a can son's friends — w VACANCY A] would give him a The Meseroles also wanted his 3- transactions. _In_1838, Jerotn * .See E.vecutlve Doi of the Evening nowii to Bryai't or in the Public enable him (or. ■Jtirs, andmah. icatiijii. In ihis Icrforod in your )x of service in ITER, (weigher.) t fur liim ! to that effcc- iiis advocate for ■il is Mr. Hoyi; emoved witlioui good pecuniary iver alleadd our i, he ouchl to be I :i;iy so," nd " breast- lised in the IV here Mrs. was secured ;alary." As liscourses at !, Dreyfous, prcibable, as ighly denio- foco" — and of the St. 1841, page not content avily where I number of 3 sooner to bribe, com- trn received f bis return dollars! I asked for a Mr. R. ex- use for 1/ re is for 17 oor pretext ■s — " active in favor of caused his ronage than ed on their " democrat itom House lember him ! was chair- md Fulton sioners who 4,000 with- ' OLD AND ACTIVE '—MY NEPHEW AFTER YOUR RELATIVES. 81 v!.n"'"Mr°"v.?^lJ ''"'f *'°''^?"'"- ^ presume he did, for he is a rotten reed- 1900 tr. >flii ;„ „ u . " (.-iiiuuery wixn wnicn such bribes were piven frnm Jeromus Johnson was not of thp Duanp «oKr>„i u„ u ""'«"• «.»n ,„ o„ C„s.,„„ H„>„e, and . w„„h, of THE pSoN^I^f!'.' '™e'„! I MIy ™nc„, i„ ,he above. '^- '^- ''4"Bfi?^,<^; ,.«e'?SZ " ' "'''"'"^^ "' ''' »'- »!■»»'. »"■' « «va,7akf l1o"*L„d JEROMUS JOHNSON-JOHN HILLYEE-M. M. NOAH. Here, is another wonderful document H FCKFOR^ JEREMIAH DODGE, WILLUM ll'cOE, •'^^^^^^ JOHNSON." J:::' fate of fa;:!"'' '' ^'^ '""''-'"^ '•^ --^ -™- -quest, on the son. for"oSrs fn tre'^i;:."ho'Te'de;:r^^^^ Z'''' " ---"V^P^-^'"- IT MAY ESCAPE TOUR MSoRTTirr Mi'^'"Bo ^'^^ ^^AR IS A NEPHEW OF MINF H^f h.:,,; V^ ^'^; ABRAHAM MESEROLE Ward, was a carld.date ^r fho "offi^^'S suntne'd^b'^'" ^''^'™'" °^ '""^ '^'^ "'on'8 friends-would take it 1?^ nil i^ V^^ r "^ ''^' ^ ^^^?^ P^^'^'°" "f Jack- VACANCY A^TER tESEMBEffi^'YoUR^kEKm^^^^ ^ would gtve h.m a commtssion, Yours tn^, ^°^^ jSroMUS f okfs'oN '^°" _In^l838, Jeromus was a director of the Bank of America, with John Targee, &c. * See Executive Doc. No.^212 H. of R. 2nh Cong, 2d Se«s. pages 233-31. 82 LE FOY NOMINATES MAUCY ! — PURDY S I'ROCLAMATIONS. This pot bank, early in 1831, liatl $3()!t.000 in specie, and its needy or greedy guardians, thy dirfcKirs had bDriowcd $ 130,000 of its funds, which, at 3 per cent. a month, would bring them !? 150,000 and more yearly. Courteous reader— had you been at the " Demoeralic" stale convention held in the Presbyterian (Jliurch, Syracuse, in Sept. 1H3(), to nominate Martin \ an ikrcn, and W. L. Marcy , as President and Governor, ( "olli ctor iiawrence, as State Elector, &c., you would have beheld as the Now York Custom House representation, Wat- son E. Lawrence, Rlijah F. Purdy, Charles P. Clinch, and Ahiahani Le Foy, the old auctioneer. Anil vou would have seen Governor Marcy proposed for re-election by Abraham himself, direct from ihe barge olFice. He was iiired for tins sort of work. Do Witt Clinton's Chair at Albany occupied by tlie nominee of a New York Custom House Officer ! Friends of Slate rights where are yel New York, 31 March 1829. Samuel Swnrtwout, Esq. Respected Sir— Presuming tliat changes will be made in the Custom House Department, I take this opportunity of offering myself as a candi- date for the office of Inspector of the Customs. As to my moral and political char- acter, as well as to claims and capability, I beg leave, Sir, to refer you to, Mr. John A. Hardcnbrook, Judge Ilerttell, Gen. Bogardus, Col. John L. Graham, Col. Wm. L. Morris, Hon. C. P. White, whose recommendations I car obtain, together with a ma- jority of the Jackson members of the Common Council. If appointments are to he made in reference to POLITICAL SERVICES (especially to the Clinton and Jackson cause) and per.sonal AND FAMILY considerations, I think I can satisfy Mr. Swait- wout, that lam not dcticient in either qualification. I presume that Mr. Swartwout is aware that Henry Abel and Abraham Bowdhic, both Custom House Insp., are mere shadows of John targee. ABRAHAM LE FOY. Mr. Cornelius W. Lawrence's course in the Custom House, may be guessed from the fads .stated in this volume. He may^talk " Jeffi^rson," but he'll out-Herod Herod in the way of polilical corruption. See if he don't ! In a letter signed by Cornelius W. Lawrence, Thos. Hcrttell, John Lorimer Graham, and George D. Strong, addressed to S. Swartwout, and dated 8th Dec. 1834, at N Y.— they sav— " Mr. Le Foy from that time to the present has been an active, zealous, and efficient advocate of denioeratu! principles, and has very materially aided in sustain- ing the present administration, and we believe that no individual who has been selected as an Inspector of the Customs has presented stronger personal or political claims to your favorable notice." That honest and staidi/ patriot, Wm. M. Price, pr,ri/pged to plead for the op- pressed, according to law, thi's adds his testimony, (Dec. 10, 1831.) " I am not acquainted with any individual who^ presents stronger personal and ■political claims to your consideration than Mr. Le Foy. His appointment won d affi)rd great gratification to a great number of your per- sonal and polilical friends, and confer an especial favor on yours truly, ' WILLIAM. M PRICE. The N. Y. Morning News is edited by J. L. O'Sullivan, and the establishment is upheld as the moutli-piece of Messrs. Purdy, Lawrence, Bowne, Allen, Wet- more, and the "regular" Tammany Hall clique, who issue their mandates offi- cially, over the I'dTtorial head. It presented the ludicrous appearance_, not long since, of Tammany Hall proclamations, signed by Purdy, the Custom House bur- veyor, as Chairman of lh(> political club at that tavern ; and immediately under, in the very same column, the most spiteful attacks on Mr. A'an Ness, then collector for KJ'interfering in jnditics ! tt • i. • "The removal of Mr. Yan Ness," say the Tammany Hall Committee, thro the News of June 26th, IH-l.-), was " an act of self-ilefence against a long course of insolent, corrupt, and aggressive interference on the part of the Custom House in all our local politics.'" The reader will already have aeen that a New lork Collector is a political agent of the powers at Washington, placed m the Custom House at New York, for the purpose of aiding in carrying all elections in that vast Commercial Capital, whether (Jitv, State, or federal, for the party of which Ins em- ployers are the leaders. And yet Messrs. Wotmore, Butler, Bowne, Purdy. O'Sullivan & Co., in the above manifesto, justify Mr. \ an Ness's removal, and the appoiutmeiit of the Old Auctioneer, Lawrence, on the score ot political med dling. SWAR In the same blinker, with s Sauinei Swart' Mire on A ndre' Pri-ident Van The history ( country, seize i pm|)irc. more I triiii, disgrace. known, Saimi ■ -iispiracy time Wilkinson (f q ;it Richmond, t ally cniicerned General W. toclip.s. on the i ton of N. J. nil .'\[;itthias Ogde Ciis ling, who \ minutes. Mr. S he said ho was w!is pioduced b Burr, dat(!d at I kinson adverted intelligence, \vh merous and po\ was aiiout to Ic ajainst the Mex protection woulc and General Da also covered a Ic to him (Wilkins and your assoei; Col. T. H. C, letters by the Gc Dayton's autogr On the 26th o: leans to the lead vere partico to a appointments in ( Malison, and the The newspape thus testifying, h Wilkinson rei)lie he posted him as Major Morgan these days. He tics. Neville an nil the Swartwd New York, in D^ Jackson meeting ynd a hcTO," ;u nqihew, S. L. C place-hunters do it— carried ofl' o: is now said to b( fault — he was toe nther incapable oi kept out of the w ought never to h over, by collusioi only acting the po SWARTWOUT's connection with AARON BURR— WILKINSON. 83 In tlic same paper they accuse his broth.-r. General Van Ness, the Washington biiiiker with supp.)rMi.:mnicl .Swurt wout, Biirr-is ajreiit ' Is ii,.i the reflection on Gov. Van Ness a cen- s.irr,m .\n(irf.w.I;»-k.>son for appointing Swartwout, knowing that fact, and on l-r, -i.i.Mit \ an JJurcii lor continninff hiin a twelve mm th after his accession ' Ihe liist()ry of Col. Burr's attempt to dismemher the Union, levy war ao-ainst his country, seize cert;iin forei-r,, p„„. ^sions, and found in the .South and West a new rmpirc more friendly to J^iLrland than to his own free home, is not new His iri;.l, dis!,rrape. solf-banisjnnent, and retirement from political life, are facts well l;nown. .Siimmd Swartwout, who, with Erick Bollman, was arrested in the Burr •mspiracy times, for lu^h-treason. was a steady follower of Burr-and General \\ 1 kinsmi (! quote the Richmond P^nquirer of Sept. 1807) testified on Burr's trial ;it Richmond, that Mr. >Swartwout, then a bold, manlv, athletic youth, was actu- nliy cniicerned in the plot. ' General W. swor(! that Swartwout had called at his head nuarfers, at Natchi- .uclio«. on the 8th of Oct. 18(.fi, -vilh a letter of introduction fVom Jonathan Day- T.?. A i""' "';'' "■ *''"•" '"^ ''■"' '''^"" '" company with Peter V. a son of ilaHhias Osrdcn, wlio h;id proceeded onward to New Orleans. Colonel T H Cns anff, who was with (Jeneral W. when Mr. S. arrived, ha vinjj retired for a"few minutes Mr. Swartwout slipped trom his side pocket, a letter and packet which hn said fio was charged hy Colonel Burr to deliver to him (Gen'l W.) The letter wns 1"«' U'-c'l l>v Gen'l W., and was a formal introduction .,f Swartwout hv Aaron iiirr, dated at Philadelphia in .July. The secret communication from Burr to Wil- kiiison adverted to the intended expedition, and referred to Swartwout for further uitelhgence who [said Gen'l W.,J stated "that Col. Burr, supported by a nu- merous and powerful association, extending- from New York to New Orleans was aiioiit to levy an armed force of 7000 men, with a view to -arry an expediticm' aaainst the Mexican provinces "—that New Orleans was to be seized—" that naval protection ^yould be had from Great Britain— that he (S.) was to meet Col Burr :.n.l Genera Dayton at N.\SHVILLE, on the 20th of N^v.," &c. Tlie envelope alsncovered a letter to John Peters, Nashville, and a letter from General Dayton to linn (Wilkinson), also partly in cypher, asking " Are you ready? Are you and your associates ready '-Wealth and Glory, Louisiana and Mexico," &c. I.,, 1 i Pushing of the 2d U. S. Infantry, deposed that he was shown these Iptters by the General the morninn; after Mr. S. arrived. As to Messrs. Burr and iJavton s autocrnaphs there could at least be no mistake— they were well known On the 26th of Dec, previous to the trial, Gen'l W. made affidavit at New Or- leans to the leading tacts, and swore that he believed that Swartwout and Ocden vere parties to an insurrection aorainst the laws of the U. S.— and the General's apnointments in Canada, &c., afterwards, are the best possible proofs that Jefferson, Ma hson, and their friends in Va. fully believed him. ' The newspapers of N. Y. reported that Mr. S. had assassinated the General for tluis testifying but he was too brave to do that. He challenged him, and when Wilkinson replied " that he held no correspondence with Traitors or Conspirators " lie posted him as a //-rW/erous, perjured poltroon. ' Major Morgan Neville, of Cincinnati, the bosom friend of S., was a Burr man in hcse (hiys He married a niece of Capt. Heth of Richmond, one of Burr's securi- ties JNeville and Swartwout and Andrew Jackson were early friends. Last war all the Swartw()uts fought well. Samuel married Miss Alice Ann Cooper, in ul "''' "• """^ '■' [^!f- "'^ ^^'"^ ^ primitive Jacksonian, and called the first Jackson meeing ever held at Tammany. He toasted Jackson as " an lionesi man aiul a hero, adroitly secured the interest of Ex-President Monroe and of his "piiew, to. L. Gouverneur— kept his eye steady on the Collectorshio, as lesser place-hunters do on lesser offices-talked of patriotism and thought ol' place-got t-carned oil or allowed to be embezzled, a million and a quarter of dollars, and b now said to be very poor When Hull was employed, government were at lailt-he was t"o old Had he been shot after trial, as justly sentenced to be, other incapable or feeble officers, who did much mischief last war, would have been Kep out of the way. So with Swartwout. A ruined speculator and his comrades ought never to have had the Customs— nor ought his crimes to have been passed over, by collusion, as they were. He was keen and knowing, and. two to one ia oiijy actinia the poor bnnkrupt. 84 SWAETWOUT, MASON, AND THE CUSTOM HOUSE, SETTLING TEXAS. TEXAS CHAPTER XX. Swartwovt and Tctos — How Texas got settled. John Y. Mason''s speculations. A Swarttvout memoir suggested. Swartwout and Von Burrn. Tammany Hall and Van Ness. Inspectors sent from Albany. Corrupt political appointments — /. M. Wheeler, <^c. The Custom House Dican. Old Job Furman. Surveyor Attwood. Major Swartwout was a shrewd, artful man, and as he had got a powerful position by ministering to the great man ahove him — he resolved to keep it by studying his humor. That Jackson was resolved to have Texas, and not ill- dit.po8ed to receive a still larger slice of Mexico, he knew far better than his neigh- bors — and having no mcmey of his own, he applied that of the public to the settle- ment of Texas. In due time much more will he brought to light — meantime the following letters will speak for themselves — they need no comment : Collector Swartwout, New York, to Col. Fiost Thorn, Nacogdoches, Texas. New York. November 11, 1835. Dear Sir — General John Y. Mason, has been requested, hy me, to deposit with you a certificate or grant of eleven leagues of land in texas, which I pur- chased from him, and which he has kindly agreed to procure to be recordtd at Nacogdoches, and get the commissioner to name a surveyor for. I have also given James Morgan a letter or order to receive the same, which order I will thank you to honor on presentation, as Mr. Morgan is to locate the same for me, and is a citizen of Texas." Collector Swartwout, New York, to Col. Frost Thorn, Nacogdoches, Texas. New York, 11 February, 1836. My Dear Sir — I received a draft from you yesterday for 1000 dollars at 60 days, which was promptly accepted, but there was no letter of advice accompan}ing it. This I regret, as I do not know what it is for, although I presume it is intended for the Texian cause. If so, please to inform me by return post — General Mason leaves this for Nacogdoches tomorrow morning. He goes on for the purpose of locating his grants, I have requested him to .speak to you about Carahalls business, about which I will thank you to write me ; I have paid your third draft, or rather my third note due 28th January. My interests are now very large in Texas, and I pray you to do all you can to sustain Mason. You must not forget that we who have hitherto purchased and paid for our lands were in a great degree, the cause of your getting so many gallanl men into your country. I received a newspaper of your place of the 2d January, this morning, and thank you for it. We all feel that Texas is now Independent. But Tiy dear sir, do not let your new government run into extrava gancies, let them confirm all the land grants, and it will give confidence to those who may become purchasers, or residents hereafter. Let them decree that holders in the states shall have their rights preserved, and they will increase the value of their public domain. Let them also authorize foreigners or people in the states and in Europe, to hold real estate as if they were on the soil. Nothing would so far give character to your country. As you are an old and respected citizen, your advice ought to have weight. Therefore speak. Do my dear friend let me hear from you what is my atogue noio worth, that is when you shall have made and maintained your independence? Write me all about that and other matters — Believe me very sincerely yours, SAMUE^, SWARTWOUl; As far as I can learn their early history, the brotherrs owmv, vvout began life as working painters. They kept an oil, paint, and dye-stufl' ito.- mi New York, at tlie commencement of the war of 1812, and behaved very well iii that contest. Their biograpiiy — the good and the bad of it — if they would entrust their papers to some able and discreet friend — would he a very interesting, curious, and pleasant volume. Of life, they tasted much of the bitterness — much of its sweets — the romance and the sad reality — the pains and the pleasures. Look at S. Swartwout's letter to Hoyt, of March, to the p\iblic as Texas has do upheld Swartwe mouth of every few (•; Mr. Van particular localii Mr. Van Bure 1829, but Swart long. A lautua play into each ot follis began to . -Vext year Swa ■'a d d com politely invited t Messrs. Lawr far more aifectioi in the number of less number of Ik during those ho employed, we su a S(unewhat supe sition into the re] " There will i; tions," said a c " Those who do John W. Whe moved by Mr. Cu t;on to Swartwou 13th ward. The service to the par ONE OF THE I in support of Gen If such appoint this the John W. ♦There was pvidenti Kerency as early as IS; ifL' liberal in their let i!iui a in Ohi... New ^ organized Van Burenisiii TEXAS, TARGEE, J. VAN BUREN— GOVR. VAN NESS SLANDERED. 85 Hoyt, of March 1829. He would be the man for a family biographer-if as candid to the p\ib]ic as he was there to Jesse. ^ ^-annui Texas has done more for northern politicians than people are aware of It uphe d fewartwout-raised Lawre.ice, Morris, Marey, Ritchie &c -and is in thp mouth of every office-beggar of note who enters ^^Uiu7on,iL a,d ex ept a ^i::.i:Moi5".S:^^"^ n,lks, who went on t'other tac^o ktch votes iHK tso^K^'^^"?"* ^"''^ *° "? ""^ "f h'« creat .-es into the Custom House in m, but hwartwout outgeneraled him-this caused a coolness, but itTlid n last Ion.. .. lauttial friend persuaded them to dine with him, bury the hatclie and p ay into each other's hands. They did so-and after tha John Targeo and Ins lolks began to have an influence and get their friends appointed to smgbert Next year Swartwout got mad at Van Buren. quarreled with and "lied im ..ad— d contemptible, little monkey"-nll ol' which the latter fo gave and politely invited the former to serve out his term lorgave and Messrs. Lawrence, Wctmore, Purdy, O'Sullivan, &c., seem to have cherished far more alTection for Hoyt and Swartnout than for \'an Ness, of w om tt^ sav in the number u the News I have quoted, that " when in town he s3s a much ess number of hours in his office than any of his predecessors have dine and tS during t^iose hours he is with much difficulty accessible to merchanis-bus jv employed, we suppose, in turning round and ro^•;nd the wheel of appo n"ment.-h^ asomewhat superfluous regulation of the politics of a ward-or a menadng inru sition into the reported disaffi^ction of a tremblin- inferior. " + '"^"^'^'"^ '"''"'- 1 here will not be very many changes in the Custom House till the fall elcc- ons, said a confidential friend of Mr. Lawrence, to me, a few days since Tr w'''?,rt '^r' ^"'>' ^'"-^" ^''" assuredly not be forgotten." ^ John W. Wheeler, an Inspector under Messrs. Hoyt and Swartwout wis re moved by Mr Curtis. Mr. Van Ness reinstated him. His o^ reSmmenSa S wal""?hev S ^'h'" C 17',°'" ^?r" ^"^. l"'^ colleague,^.s aldeTrn of the vice to "the narlv'' H Collector to ' plaee him ir. . situation to render much insupport of Generic! Jackson and the State." VVAKU, If such appointments as this are not treason against society, what can be-! Is thi^the John W. Wheeler who voted in 1835 for Dr. Rock/ell's motion at Tarn! Mr. Attorney ':'-:,ioral Van Buren thus endorses Vl'hipple on the same sheet • Albany, March 23rd 1836" »oms truly, J. VA.\ BUREN. 86 AMERICAN FREEDOM sySTEMATICALLY UNDERMINED. many Hall, denouncinfr Wm. Leggett and proscribing the New York Evenin? Post?* Duly endorsed as " a warm supporter," by M. M. Quackenboss, one of ihp Collector's bail, Mr. McCorkell comes forward to be recompensed for his " sacri- fice of time and money." $1095 a year, and perquisites, are my price, quotli Mr. McCorkell. " To S. Svvartwout, Esq. April 13, 1829. Sir — Having alwavs been a Republican, and, having zeal()u."*lv advocated the Election of Andrew .lackson to the Presidency — for the advancement of ic/nch ! liave made much sacrifice of time and monn/ — I feel myself entitled to present m-i claim.i before you, confident that you will do justice lo me, (tliough but an humble individual,) who have worked in the same good cause in which you have acted so conspicuous ar.d successful a part. I ask rcspectfullv to \w appointed one of the Inspectors of the Customs for this port"— &c. " CHARLES McDERMOT." John Morris, " an ardent and capable politician," applied for his share of the spoils to Collector Swartwout, in 1831, immediately after the close of his (Mor- ris's) political exertions at the fall election of that year. He was recommended by the siufnalures of John Yates Cebra, Daniel Jackson, C. P. White, Cha's Henry Hall, Walter Bownc, and Jeromus Johnson. Alderiiian Cebra wrote his friend Swartwout as follows ; — " New York, Nov. 21, 1831. — Mr. Morris has for sev- eral years been one of our most active and efficient Jackson republicans in the first ward— «nrf ?,s now ACTIVELY AND ZEALOUSLY engaged intli us.'"! * Here arc inure spt'cimeiis. To S. Ssvarlwoul. &i:. 2i April. 13'2'J. — " ! have haon ihrou^liout ilecidedly Jacksonian. ISAAC McC-VW " " Mr. Isaac McGaw. wlio wi.-slic^ the place of Inspector, is, an I iinderatauil, an original friend of ours. J. OAKLEY." " The Targee dviiaily lia.-5 Ion? eiinusli filled these odice-j with broken-down politicians, kc. GEO, W. WILSON'." Saniiiol Swartwout. E'lri. — Dear Sir — Mr. Georie S. IMesaerve of the 11th Ward is an applicant fur ll;» appointinoiit of Inspector of Cu.slonis. ^Ir i\I. ha-i liccn « strong pxi'fy vhdi. .nul is at pre-:eot iin anhr; ^ipporler of l/ie present genera/ ami state adtninistrotions, ami I have no doubt his appointiTient wnula give seneral satisfaction, WALTER BOWNE. New Vork, April ao, l5:3."i. E.ttract from the .application of John I, Monreof Flalhnsh for office, dated April 30, l-'Sg, (Hi.s petiti"n wa,s endorsed hy Ali'ni, M. Valcntnie, S, M. Fitch, &c.l — ' Your petitioner has always acted witli the re^ publican partv. And for the considerations aforesaid |that and liis trrand-father's patriolisinl he 'loes sincerely hope and trust that he may now, I.\ SOME MEASURE BE REWAHDED, with a small situation, by this just and enlightened administration." XowYork. 29 April. 1?29. To the Collector of the Port of New York.— Sir— The bearer. Mr. Benj. C. Bnrdelt, WAS ZEALOUSLY ENGAGED IN OUR LATE CONTEST, and deserves t!ie appointment lie so/icits, which I nnder.-^iani' toh that of an Inspector. I am, &c. C. C. CAMBIIELE.NG [T.i tliB same. I— .\cw York. 2-2d !\Iay 1^2il, " Sir— Havim: been dnrinir the late Presidential contest AN ACTH'E AND ZEALOUS FRIEND of Ge;; eralJackson. AND HAVING DONE :MY UTMOST in his support, I take llielilierty of solicitniir froniyi-i, the appoinlnicnt of an Inspector of tile Customs fir lhi.s city ARCH. IMcCOUKELL." This civil request is favorably endorsed oi\ the hack hy Campbell P. and Robert White. James McBriile, Ab'm. Bell, & t'o., Oiiden, Fer'tmson, & Co.. (5cc Comment is surely useless. t Francis B. Fitch was. in lf<.iCi. a lottery-office keeper in Wall street, and had been a partner of Joiic- t/uin Jiiith/ivnn. It .so happencil that his was the tir-sl name called on the jury on the first trial ol' Jacob Barker, Wm. P. Rathl)oue. .Mark Spencer. Jo.-ieph G. Swifl. Georire W. Brown, and their collcasnei. for a cimspiracy to defraud the pnlilic. in the matter of " the Life and Fire," Fullon and Tradesmeii'j Banks, tec. i\ir iMa.xwell objected to Fitch, tlial lie was iinplicntPiJ. and had an interest contrary to jia tice, through his conneclion with Castle Garden. Antoine i\Ialapar's Marble Bank, and the Life and Fik Company, and that he was a non-resident. Triers were appointed. Fitch sworn a juror, the jury diJiua airree. (allh lunh the next jury did)— r:.nd the next we hear of Fitcli is in the Bine Book, as one of 'Sh]^• Swartwont's " oria'.ilzed corp^'' of Inspectors, with e,\cellenl " political nualificalions," as Croswell wimU say. Jesse Hoyi and B, F. Bntler contended, as counsel for tlie accused, that Fitch was the right serl if juror— hut. as Collectiu' anil District Attorney, these worthy functionaries were prepared to degrade tlie whole mercaiuiie body in New Y'ork as mitlt lo ail as jurors in the courts of tiieir country. As a spjcinien of the practice In the New Y'ork Custom Hou.se. let me refer to one of Mr. Hoyl's secrd bonks, notin'-' the results of a meeting of the li^ails. and their informers and advisers. 1st ward — .Vow in ollice. — W. F. Boyle — Fenry Leveley. In the o])position. R. John Everett— cnnsf:- vative — with »s now. — (ith ward. Jo.s. D.eyfoua, '•conservative, noir with us'' — "a irreat mistake- gond." — ^Sth ward. John C. Neilmlir, cle-.it — k. C. Morris— both doubtful— never at a meeting of the «arii before the last. Roberts. Newljy. cierk. voted the democratic ticket. John J. Earle. conservative, bm tfii anh miiitiTiRiit wii;.j 'ER BOWXE, I, iHi.g petiti-'n ;e(l Willi llie re^ iitisni] he 'loes small situation, ;9 April. 1S29. > ZKALOUSLY luilpr.-^iani' tot? MBIIELENG :-2erett— consfr- L'reat mistake- iiig of the n'.ini inaervative. bin aonia, doublfu! CHAPTER XXI. XnannyofD^nnago^nies. Blair and the Globc-a press bovght for him by Noah t;,^/': /Sr- wr/Ttf^Vn'''"''''-' ^^'^'"•^-^^^-'•^ Butler LdTan I have already exhibited enough of the machinerv by which Mr. Van Buren moves his organized corps," to enable the reader.'to judge whether the folhiw :n. commentary, by the Charleston Mercury, is not o^e ot^hf moTapSopriate thii eoiild be made. In 18:^9, Mr. Van Buren reached Washington-Mr'^E Seeame ihe fiivonte. His paper came into existence, as he s;.id, at the command oton« president, was continued by a second, and ordered out of existence by a thtS! "' iFroni tlie Charleston Mercurv ) p,,rty tre/siiry, o„t of svhich an army ( Ioma"o"tes1 t( ' h, ,f.V'"s I","''" '"^'^'' S"''!"-"™"' *'»" " t'rantl v.(.n Piullitude who create nearly a 11 the dis " (-eA T","'' "" ''"">',«■'"'*'« '>n i;»lli .--ides ; a nics is notoriously the hone of o Ic.' X le^^^^^^ e ections, and whose sole interest in pol. ihnyare in; wlu/scruple ,„t in he n'.ce o lav' r^ X^ "^'^ T ""' f '''"'""'^" '^ ^^^en -ihcr. a,ul by their shameless pretensi, ns to i-Liulsri,./evrv ',■!''' ^""' ■""'""' ^''"'' "'"' •'^'''y '" t''" ...iny to conclude that ail party contests a e ( i vT.lis'., L.n,^^^^^^^^ T" '^"""^"H't. and lead too '*c.', Who does noi .soo that this i.^ h.TonV, " more n n Li ,r "^ ''"''''^" ,''''""'2"-"«« f'T 'h..- cains of iiu Ihe character of a strife (.f nie Lna e^C in^ VV w^ l n 'T' "'"' "''l' ""' ''lections are assum- .™.ry is thus corrupted and tlie~! ld!:?tnula,^( ■.: ' uliu is'll, Infc^" ^"" "" O-ernment of the .1 accuntant. And this \^:^;X^^ h^l^^ a , wit c. n muV M:f'^t ^'T''''T f"" '^' ""''"''' "^ ThiH because the conntrv i,s tirst wrom-eil hv n tt r , I. . ' ' ' '" ''•"' '" ."'" "lnHiplic-alion of offices ii.oleacd hyan increased e.xnens-V as" renii v T Ins 1 , .-|'"'™"' !'"" '"."«'^«.,'l '""st 1« further |.::.-c, is to insure that we pa^ an eiu'rnious pHcbVor a ve^/ta^ '''""'' ^'"= ^"^'ifi^'ation lor Is not the above a true commentary on the facts I have condensed in the two liist chapters-and if so, what ought to be done about it ' ., , pitl'^'V !f f '^™' '^?^ Sf ■'' '•" '^'^'*^ "*' t^''"?« '^ the best we can have In s letter of condolence with Blair and Rives, dated April :>4lh, 1845 he assertS t such an estab ishment as their Globe had been, at the seat o hrfederaS! xaggeration. It will be hereafter seen that he uttered similar sentiments mnnv S S.r' "' '' '^'' -n^Portance of having an Argus and a CrosTe llat the aea^ ircnv.tf '"■""""*• K""' '"^' P"^^ ^ '*^'"'' ^''^^ t'^e J^°i«t he gave to the Globe a^n^d..t. covetous managers has, thus far, been the best act of Mr. Polk-s adminis- n?^"*:-? Jl-^'^^irof Kentucky was, like Amos Kendall, a strong supporter of Mr J;v until 1825, when he joined GeneralJackson. He was poor^S the United ir a;a„^;!el^^r^.i;^^!!i2 '7:!!^), ^;^, ';^^^ - the Me,^,dis, society...-,3th ward. :'u--&jo,L'e VV. IMatsell (no /einark.-.) '' ^' ' ' L'*'"'?-^'"". conservalive-!c,7/i «s ^^H.,rvC. A.twood. Hoyfs tiote— very strong papers.>>_Lovl D. Slanint. J. Lawrence Benedict-hv Hoiirv C. Attwood koirt tavern it time in ffiii ^?" *^'^^-* removed hini a lew nionihs since. ^-t":i^;;- .ile^sS^siJdt' ;:;^n:i';n;;^^^;"[.:!j^ !;:i:ii-.;";v^ '^^"' ''-'"-t^ve^^^^^^;^:; -liiPlaiited hini-and he A«rf /« ////-l i m 1 ,' t^ollc (Ice lined to renominate liim— Aldeiinan Piirdy i.wke wav for hi, H|3 i, oil er 1 ,f m, , •,'"r''' " "^"^r- ^""''"^' ''*''•='■"" ''''^■i'"-' l"^*"" 'li-^l'l"C(( to ^ ';'"M the fam iTof tKtW(^.ds c itii ue^ *=^^*' ^^"'" ""^ P^Wi-^ •■'"'i " e r -^.,Wn,e„asni:^t.;=r^:;^^;hi^ 88 NOAH, HOYT, SWARTWOUT, LAWRENCE, SETTING UP F. P. BLAIR. States Branch Bank at Lcxini^ton, paper on which was his name and the namm of other persons, amounting to $20,7M — and when some $2(K)0 had been paid on one oftiu! notes, he was released for a fee of $37, and the payment of another man's ohlifjation for $'200. In 1H;J0, therefore, he was insolvent. He came to VVashiiifjfton in IH.'H, without types or press — received Mr. Van tiureri's missive to the leaders of the party at New Vork — was set up in Washini;. ton, and his press paid for by Messrs. Noah, Swartwout, Hoyt, Bowne, Jackson, Hamilton, Gouverneur, and (-'ornelius W. Lawrence. Richly have they been re- paid for the outlay — Mr. Blair speedily rose from poverty to the possession ofirn. mensc wealth — resided in a splendid mansion — gave dinners and suppers to presi- dents, foreign ambassadors, cabinets and congressmen in a style of oriental mae- nificence — played on his organ (the Globe) the party tunes his employers re- quired — and no other — where they enjoined silence he was mute — if they bade him attack vice or virtue — the good or the bad — he was ready. No tiger could be more fierce — no wolf more blood-thirsty. He could take any part. But to his keepers he was tame — a word from them awed him into instant stillness The Committees of Congress, of the Van Buren party, carved out immense jobs- $ -500,000 in the Documentary History alone — the work of Congress and the Exec- utive, worth $40,000 a year was most times in his hands. In a luckless hour he was bidden to tell, or Amos Kendall told, thro' his columns, that Governor HiilV New Hampshire was "the mere tool of the administration" of Mr. Tyler— a'nd then, if not before, were family secrets disclosed, and the unjust and enormous prices, and the va.st and profitable contracts, of the Van Buren wire-worker at Washington, revealed to the world. Mr. Blair was soon able to bet heavily on elections, and it is said that he did so — able to endorse notes and make pecuniary advances to influential congressmen — aye, and to lend $ 10,000 tvj his patron' General Jackson. When Mr. Hoyt broke down — when the Manhattan Bank affair happened— as well as on other similar occasions, where his party suffered, Mr. Blair maintained a decent silence — but when Morris and Varian had caught a paper parcel at Pierce's, which Hoyt, Lawrence, Allen, Edmonds, and Butler sat in judgment upon, « would have supposed the Globe a moral earthquake. Yet its owner's eye, like Croswell's, was ever on the spoils — his avarice, like that which filled Pizarro whei'. he broke faith with the Inca. Pickens in Congress called him " a galvanized corpse, " New York, Saturday, 18th February, 1332, " To Jesse Hoyt — M. M. Noah — Samuel Gouverneur — Walter Bowne — Williair. P. Hallett — Samuel Swartwout — Cornelius W. Lawrence — James A. Hamilton, and others. Gentlemen — When F. P. Blair, Esij. was in this city, you each subscribed s certain amount, for the purpose of furnishing him with a Printing Press. At the meeting of his friends on that occasion, the subscription was short of the amount required — but I well recollect the Pledge you made — which was — that thf Press should be furnished and paid for — and that he might rest assured of its beirg forwarded as soon as it could be procured. The press has been sent to Mr. Blair, under the direction of some of the sub- scribers — and $ i;no paid on account of it — the balance due the maker is $652 50 cents, for which he has commenced suit against me. As T did not either contract with, or have any thing to do with Mr. Hoe, the maker of the Press, except my exertions in collecting the subscriptions, and payine them over, I shall of course resist the payment of it. It appears to me that this matter ought not to be subjected to an investigation tn a Court of Justice. Mr. Hoe should be paid for the Press — and I think the gentlemen who pledged themselves to Mr. Blair, are, in honor bound, to pay immediate atten- tion to the subject. I therefore suggest that you meet for the purpose, at the Bank Coffee House, on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Yours very respectfully, DANIEL JACKSON, The History of the Albany Argus is longer than that of the Globe, but the aspect of the northern official differs only from that of the southern, in its adaptation to a VAN BUI ilitl'orent purpoa first proprietor, Ihircii, and Isaa ami left it whe: .Mr. Cantine were profoundly position of stat( each man writiii and had voted i\ Senator Van My Dear Sir- knew that nothi Mrs. Cantine 's : llocs to be at A to Mr. Buel, wl yon can. If an will oppose it. BUEL FOR $ : son ought at leas and under no cir Mc, and, ABOV] EDITED AT . LOWS. With u'htch now a^itat thanks to Mr. 1) write them soon, Mr. B. F. But My Dear Sir- nor's folly by tl Argtis business I ble for the mode nity, &c. I hav Mr, Noah, in Democratic Legis Jesse Hoyt and ( IromCatskill, wl of Croswell and 1 "They area set pings of unclean b lows, who go aboi shaking hands wit eked out with kno questions into a le Of this CABAL we Leggett's cours their utmost to co ♦ The Columbian o prinlins for one third le C. Spencer was for letli lional profit thus went i m February, 1821, ea Senator of the. Vnitn Directed the following a aii(i tn he the assistant Mr. Wilcoxon, who ia t nelius HogelMom, who i missioner; Barnet Hoes in the County of Colum 13 Stale printer; ami Be ttie Kinj'B poor cousins 18 BLAIR. ind the naniM bad been paid lent of another lived Mr. Van p ill Washini;. wiie, Jaciisoii, they been re- ssession ot'irn- ipers to presi- oriental mas- employers re- they bade him iger could be part. But to slant stillness nmense jobs— and the Exec- ikless hour he ivernor Hiiljoi r. Tyler— and and enormous I'ire-worker at bet heavily oil ake pecuniary >j his patron, happened— as r maintained a ;el at Pierce's, 3nt upon, « ;er's eye, hke Pizarro whci'. nized corpse. " •uary, 1332, ivne — Wiiliarr. A. Hamihoii. Ii subscribed 3 BS. IS short of tilt ivas — that tht d of its being le of the sub- taker is $652 Mr. Hoe, the is, and payine '.stigation im the gentlemen mediate atteo Fee House, oi ACKSON. 3ut the aspect daptation to a VAN BUREN's idea OF THE ARGUS AS CONDUCTED BY CROSWELL. 89 Jitlorctit purpose, the management of only a single state. Mr. Jesse Buel was its first propr teior, and he sold out to Moses I. Cantine, a brother-in-law of MartT," Van H.,r.M.. at.d Isaac Q. Leake h.s partner, who ha.l been cashier of the old Buffalo Bank an, left tt when the brokers were redeeming its notes at a shilling to the dollar ' Mr. ( antme wa.s an attorney-Leuke had been bred in a bank-lof printing they were proloundly >gnorant-but party machinery placed them at once in\he lucrative positton of state pnnters'-the itegency were all of them ready to act i, editors each ntan wr.i.ng on hat which most interested him. Cantine was a sta?2 senator' and had voted tor banks and insurance companies, wholesale. ' Senator Van Buren to Mr. Jesse Hoyt. janV ■?! isoq My Dear Sir-I am overwhelmed with the account of poor Cantine 's death I bewtha nohmg from me can be necessary to secure your zealoSs StSn to rs. Cantine s interest, if any thing can be done for her. I have wriUen L Mr and under no nrnimstanrfs murht anv one to hr nnnmrtiJ u,h . ; - / "™'""""w« felTF'D AT^? ^\^.^^H^^^^ ^<^'^^^^^^1 KpElffnuS low!''' wL^^M^pIr^^ ^'-'^ HANG OUR HARPS ON THE WIL- ^'^^J'^- vvi^A//, /^ei-ARTY van survive a thousand such convu/sions as those M nowagrtate and probably alarm most of those around you. Mak my sincie Se them soon " "' ^S«'f -'-'• f-^heir kind lette'rs, and tell thJmT wUI wntt tnem soon. In haste, yours iruly, M. VAN BUREN. Mr. B. F. Butler, to Mr. Jes^TS^ ' « Albanv T.,n,> 'i iR9i '"yP.r^"-^-- .have by this time heard the consummafionrthe St.r- nors folly by the issuing of his proclamation Yot^w-^ll see that the Argns business has been at last accomplished. I was obliged to become re pons^ be for the moderation of the New York paper, and to execute a BonroflnTm- mty,&c. I have written to Hamilton for it. Do see that it is sent ii Yours ever, B. F. B." Mr, Noah, in 1839, mentioned that he was nominated as State Printer by a Democratic Legislature, but that Mr. Van Buren, being opposed to "m ''I? Jesse Hoyt and other tools at work and defeated him, and brought up Cro'swelP' romCatskill, who was elected. Mr. William Legge t gives us a grSph e ske ch ct Croswell and his confederates— very. Here it is— gi'ipnic sKttcn 01 this CABAL we believe the state printer to be the soul and center " P'°J«'=»s- ■ioiK'l profit thus ^Uut into the pXet.;..''^Ca^d^ previously drilled the party, and $7m of addl- .Svtf;'o;TA.''^L',>f i)'„%i''6??A^ Zl7„;-' '^^'"'" ^^" B^ren havm, procured himself to be made is Stale printer- and BenkminPRfMio^,^ *^."^' ^T' I- pantme, the brother-in-law, also, of Martin. ^ha Kin/'. ^'oVcous'ln^raJ^Tofer^yt^Ii ptvi§ed JoV'."'""' °' ^"^ ^^^"'"' '» °'"f'" Attorney. Truly! J8 00 VAN IIIIIHN UcKnoNIHM TIIK TIMKh AND Trii; STANfMIIII. 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'rin. i,„,„,; . . mv.'.w-f '" Y ■''"'^'"■ ""r ' '"^^■" ""'y '*'"^-'' '""' '^'<'"'' '^' '"y -n oh-r w IV ih ",''"■■""■':' ''".'■"'^'" """ ''''y""^' ''X'""l'l«'- I can acc.ii.it for i, in no '"htr uay than U»e siniplo laot mld do the friendship I want as easily as rise and drink a glass of Saratoga water at the Springs. He choos s to Sit still— /« sacrifice those who have supported him in ei . x-ea/Af.r- and even hurdly to treat me as one gentleman would treat another. / scarcely know what course I shall pursue, or lohat I shall do. I am beset on all sides with importunities to cut him— to abandon Aim— What can I do' What shall I do? I know not. You will excuse this letter— you can easily appreciate the situation of a man confident of success if properly supported- but nothing before him but the abandonment of his deliberate purposes or a shameful surrender of honor and purpose and principle and all. Yours truly, ' J. G. BENNETT. I do not know whether it is worth the while to write to Van Bvren or not— nor do 1 care if you weie to send him this letter. VAN BUREN t^°- ^-1 Philadelphia, 15 Aug't, 1833. Dear Hovt,— I have not heard from you for a week. I hope that my old friends —If I ever had any— which I begin to doubt— will not forget what I have het. I did suppose that he would^l/ave iiS n'Sfffi^ ty' fobtmit^^^^^^^ .New York as others- get it, if our friends in PhiladelphiLould rt flMoSer make out to sustain one press. If you happen to meet him I Tsh you S^ make these explanations to him, BUT KEEP THIS. I am, in haste, your friend, M. VAN BTJRFIV Saratoga, August 19, 1833. * -fii'v u u Kii^rM . On the 15th of August, 1833, Mr. Bennett wrote Mr. Hovt earnestlv entrpntJn^ Mr. Van Buren^s ultimatum, which that gentleman g^wefn his TeS of E^^^ IZfwT^^ Spnngs, showing that he had no confidence in hJ-bJt whether he Sy'Ldmi"'"' " '" ">dependence is not stated. That Hoyt doubled him L When Mr Bennett found that he had nothing to hope from that nnarter hp addressed a letter to General Jackson (Sept. lof) impeachbe^' S,.^ E'^.m and certain confederates^ with reference to the pet^S sche' to whfch IS president replied. Mr. Bennett had received many confident L te s Sm K^n dalj— of these he published sevnral Mr n M wu-. '"''""*' ''^'■'•'^rs 'rom iven- coneludmg with '' Pray bt'XSett'aL^Ttrdone whh™"h l""; UiU) his paper! Mr. Cambreleng made similar^Jequests t his\" en " Mr Hovt bu some of the letters that might have been in the fire appear in^thisbioffr"Z' and L^n^^"'^ l""u"''^ *"^ correspondence~the undue influence ofjiis iournal- and the causes which may mduce such men as him to strain ever^ effon ^o SpT^ l»v,, ,f »"'?';"»"». )»?in!>l»ts of talent md great ciiculation, as lUey would a ^rr'«tauU''tr .reSr"' '" "'^ '"' '° " ™' *""'' 'y--^»*"- Read Mr. B.'s correspondence, and you will perceive how littlp ia tn«,^ k rrid 'TnKpTn's vh'-'hT' ^^^^'.z^^^^^^^^^^ friendly to /l2'_"^the $2oI ,n « \'''^'"'?.'" '"""^ ""l ^'- ^«" Buren felt iylvanfai], an^d give U.^'Z'a bSsid:.""'^^' ^"^ '"^^ ^'^ ^'^ ^"" ^the Pei- Was this $ 200, then, a bribe ? Let us look at it. m. Bennett was poor, he was correct in receiving pecuniary aid from Mr. 96 Bennett's love for van buren cooling off — the big gun. Hoyt, Mr. Van Burcn, Mr. Biddle or any one else who, knowing his course and avowed principles, chose to advance $200 in support of them. To do so, brought him under no personal or political obligation to the donor — it was no bribe. But to take money from Mr. Hoyt — to tell him he was his partisan, bound to sink or swim with van Buren, and then when Van Buren would not give him other $2500, to turn round upon and bespatter him and his regency with mud, does seem mercenary and unprincipled. Who that has read the following paragraphs in the Herald would imagine they were written by the man who could scarcely find terms strong enough to convey to Messrs. Hoyt and Van Buren, a right idea of" the anguish, the disappoi:^tment, the despair that brooded over him" because he could not do more for "Van Buren's cause," in advocating which he acknowledges that he had spent nearly ten years in New York, 1D= " working night and day for the cause of Mr. Van Buren 1" iFrom the New York Herald of May ?, 1837— by James Gordon Bennett.] " The firat symptoms of the mania which has produced the present revolution, developed themselves in the spring of lf^29, when Mr. Van Buren, a common country lawyer, who begun life by trundling cahbaces to market in KInderhook, perfumed with Oilogne water, and his yellow whiskera arranged a la Paris, pre- sented the faniou.^ Safely Fund scheme of lianking in Albany. Abijah Mann, of Herkimer, took up the scheme and pressed lis adoption in the Assembly, on the ground of oppo.-jition to the United Slates Barjl!, and in order to take the place of that institution, then preparing to get a recharter from Congress. From lliat moment, the advocates of tmnks in general were divided into two hostile parties, acting on poliliciil principles, and guided by poliiical motives. The s.inie spirit of hostility appeared soon in Congress. The democrats opix)sed all banking in Congress, but carried it to all lengths in the Slates. The consequence was the proiracled conflict between General Jackson and the United Slates Bank, which, singular enough. gave a greater developement to wild, unregulated banking principles than if the United Slates Bank liad been renewed ten times over. In the midsl of the conflict, the old notions of a hard money currency were called into action by the goverinnenl to sustain itself with the mob." " The whole public mind has been diseased, and Martin Van Buren and his atrocious associates, form one of the original causes of the terrible moral, poliiical, and commercial desolation which spread-^ over the country. Martin Van Buren and his associates first introduced the union of politics and bank, iig— pol- itics and speculation in this Stale. He was the first speculator in town lots at Oswego, and he is the au- thor of the safety fund system, which first agitated the whole elements of banking throughout the country, and divided it into two hostile powers seeking for the supremacy. Nicholas Biddle was a banker—but he was, and is, a man of science. He is an aristocrat, but he is a moral one — an intelligent one— a philosoph ical one. He is such an aristocrat as you will find in heaven— Martin Van Bnren such a democrat as you will discover coiled up in any burning corner in the other place— " High on a throne of royal state, which far, Outshines the wealth of Ormus, or ofind — " he sita, like his archetype and teacher, in sulphur below." [From the New York Herald of October, 1841— by Jam,indy Hill, and Van Buren from the chair of the great Washineton Like many other evils which afflict society, a press such as Bennett's is the cfTm W .nrttpl' ''"""!!"■ °^ ^^'^'mrted laws, currency, and business sysS We must seek a remedy, not m abusing this wretched instrument of all that is bS IP our institutions, but in a return to the truly Christian principles of the ith of J ly. 17/r>-for, if the check of the democratic millions is found to be imperfect al rxperience proves that it would be madness to look for a haven of sS in a return to the rule ol the one or tlie few.* ^ CHAPTER XXHI. ^ T/i"f ,irf '/ ^' ffi^'^^^l^Pontlu^ English systan. Mr. Daniel S. Dickenson. Ihe 1st and 2nd National Banks. Messrs. Butler, Van Buren, arid MarrX course. They petition for a branch bank at Albany. Their reauest refused L pmtion organized The Safety Fund buhhlc. Pripeets of tl^l^^s^tadeZ^ Their success, and the result Letters- Butler^ s secret seiltimentlLLoZzoHolvs -Cambreen^^s-Memcrial for the Bank-Democrats like to be U. S B iUrecl- (^melius W Lawrence, a national bank man. Governor Wright instructs the , V. y. Legislature through Mr. Jesse Hoyt. A U. S. Judge urges Mr Ilovt to influence a New York Senator through Judge Eiker ! •' The course proposed by Messrs. Butler, Hoyt, Van Buren and their old associ- tes, ,n 1833, relative to the United States Bank, involved but one princ nle-had I. one object- the spoils.' The Globe and the Argus called thdroSponems ,m tSHV"'^ ""'^'"'^ ^^^^''^^ P^'^y'' buttheleairsof thepetLnkrio^! ment had been almost to a man opponents of Jackson and for the bank. Li £ the J. ons at Leipsic Van Bureu and his band had deserted their colors as the fortune nt h^ "™'^ '^P'^^'^u 'r">'.* them-and as for federalism, far inore of it^ ancient champions are to be found in the camp of Wright, Van Buren and Polk ZZT^ f''' °PP""?''- ^ '™ ^°^ '"^^ P""^*!'!'^^^ «f tiie Declaration of Indel P iidence, and consequently not an implicit believer in the dogmas of whiff federal ^, or regukr democrat,' except in so far as, in soul and spirit, the^go^ for that glorious landmark of human rights, duties and responsibilities ^ ^ ''.4,sr'0/ I „•?-'""'''; 7- "-''r^ """ ," l"" ""'■'' '="^""" house campaign //' rf^Ve ■ s &«< 13 98 VAN HIJRKN PETITIONS FOR A BRANCH OF THK V. S. BANK AT ALBANY. I']ii^luii(l liiul iiiiiilt! a hank Koini^vslntl Hirnilarly coiiHlitiitcil with tint lant oliiirtt'rcd by (;(»M>^r(!SH, luT natioiiiil IroaHtiry or <;x(^li<^(|ii<'r. Tin; ('<' liank loHt inillionH tlirou^li inismana^emi'nl, bill (lid not Htop. It demanded the Hprcio I'rom other MardiH ibr their not(!H paid in for lands or eimtom.s' dutic^H, and if they failed to ri^deem, refiiHcd their nolcsas money. In iIuh way it operated in homt! decree a.s a check on the nniltiplicaliotioi what are called Htute liniikH. IIh Htock cliielly paid in in H. S. HerurilicH, rose in $ 1.50, or more, for the $ 100 Hhare ; and that wan not far from itH value when Anilrew .la(d«Hon and M. Van IJuren reached WaHhin(|ton, in March, IHiJi). Ill IHiJO, while MesKi-.s. AdaniM and t!lay won; in power, and McK.srB. Butirr, Van Hiiren, and Marcy, in oiipoHitioii, lliew three fieiitleinen, beiiiir 'I"'" fPsidmi at Albany, were warm i'rii^nilH of the national bank, and on the. lOth of July, "on behalf (d"themHelv(m and their fellow citizeiiH of Albany," memorialized " thcdirrn. ora of the Ihiited State.'* Hank" at I'hiladelphia, in iliesc words: — '''I'lie limitpi) capital (if our baiikw IbrbidH the extension (if our trad(\ Merchants of moderate fortune are discoura^iMl from taking up their idiodo amonf^ us, from a kiiowlt'dj;! that the liaiikiiif,' capital of tli(> place is inedeiiiialn thi! nature of the trade which would be prosecuted hcr(\ would in a great measure render tk bills of a branch establisiied at this place the circulating medium of the extensive rrgioim whose produce, would he brought to market. Insomuch, therefore, as the cslablisbmiuit of a branch Ikm-c would not only bo hiulily advantageous to this eitv, but a souHH! of jirofit to the jiarent institution, we hope that the directors r.f the United States ]5auk will eslaidish an odice of discount and deposit at this place. ' The memorial was signed, in their own hand writing, by " Henjamin F. Uuller," " W. li. Mariry," and " M. A' an Hiiien," who coii.sideied a branch at Albany (juite (^institutional, and were anxious that the bills of" the monster," " the Biddic Bank," should become " the circulating medium of extensive regions." Their request was refused. Then, Im/ not til/ thai, they wheeled round in sup- port of .lackson — planned the deception known a.s the " safety fund," as a trap in j catch igiioiauce, and the moment Mr. \'an Jliiren found himself in Clinton's paddle. na (lovernor of New York, he told the legislature, .Ian. 7, IS'2!), that " to dispense I with Hanks altogether is an idea which seems to have no advocate; and to make ourselves wholly dependent on those established by federal authority deserves none. If these ar(> correct views, tin; only alternative would seem to be, between R renewal of the charters of the souriil part of the existing Banks, or to anticipate the winding up of these concerns BY THE INCORPORATION OF NEW INSTlTU'nONS." A few WiMiks afterward he left for Washington ; and, knowing Jackson's opinion I of the iinconstilntioual character of the great bank which had declined an alliance | with him in 1H0(), he liegan to undermine it — holding out to Lawrence, Cambreleng, Yanderpoel, and his other associates in New^ York state and through the Union,; the spoils as their reward for assisting in its overthrow. The national treasure would be divided among the confederate banks — their shares would ri-se as those of the V. S. sank — the iioliticiansof his school could borrow the public funds througli the Manhattan and other ]iets — Lawrence and others would get new charters ai Albiiny. and their share of the plunder — the whole scheme might, and no doubt would break down — all experieiuui in the Union had shown that such schemes must break down from sheer lack of honesty in those concerned, but (sven in failure, [ which must not take place till he was President — even in failure the jiarty leaders might acquire vast profits. He was an old banker, thoroughly versed in charterriil mysteries, had been bank director of the Hudson Bank, that paid fi cents to tkj dollar, afterwards bank-attorney, attorney-general, a senator, voting for banks, 1 1 governor to recommend more of them, the agent of Jacob Barker, and the pailnerl of the President of the Bank of Washington and Warren. Mr. Van Buren succeeded. The U. S. Bank was crushed. The revenue «| bestowed on favorite state institutions where it would serve the purposes of per[ sonal gain and political ambition — the administration bade the pet bankers giveoiiij the national revenue for purposes of speculation. Then came the distribution 1 ' AT ALBANY, t liiBt pliiirtercrt thc> Union lol . lialC ol'ddllari) I til tl'o JJank. 1 payments on li.snmniipemcnt, r Miit(!t* paid m ihc'iT nolesak lulliiiliciiliotii,! ■urilirH, roRfi ii, itH value whin , IHi>». i/IesHTB. Biitirr, X then rpsidciii ii of July, "nil vA " tlicdirrn- -'• 'I'hn limitprf Is of nuidcralf [1 a knowlt'dci tli(! nature df (irc render ihi- 1' the cxtensivfi lercfore, as the )iis to this cilv, irectors r.f the at this place. ' in F. IJiiller," nch at Albany ," "thcBiddIc s." 1 round in sup- 1," as a trap Id linton's saddli. it " to dispense ; and to make lority deserves | to be, between iir to anticipalf I )N OF NEW ekson's opinion ned an alliance I e, Cambrelenf, ffh the Union, ational treasure I rise as those of I ! i'unds throug!i[ i\cw charters ai t, and no doubll t such schemes I (!ven in failure, c ])arty leaders | ed in chartem cents to tkl \g for banks, 1 1 lud the partner I le revenue wis I iirposes of per- 1 iuikers giveouij listribution 1: " BUTLER ON THE U. 8. BANK— DANIEL S. DICKENSON. 99 Mr. Van nure,. sat at the helm of Statp-saw 10,000 merchants and trading persons ail in husiness, and 000 bank.sshut their door.s on those creditors who pre- mmled their ohl,^ra,ons. The Safety Fund followed. Mr. Jesse Jfoyt depoS he p,|hhe money ,„ Jcons the broker's Trust Co. Hank, when nobod/else'w uld M fu.^'"' Wr"'v' '"; '' '" "";"' '"".''^'^•'.-'^- •<"'" «l'^^-i -'^"y -.. honest man i"lho f.iee, Mr. VauHuren de:seend..d fr.-M. the chair of .stale-the pa bank.. were ,se a;,o.Mjr aj^arn-the sub-treasury was re.scH.,led-eredil and con idence re' urned, to van,sl. a. belore-..u,l the authors of all this mischief, Messrs. Va'i Hiirei, aud bis rie.ids, are airain at the helm of alfairs-Marcy i,. the cabinet Polk m the seal .,( lelferson, JJu.ler .l.stnct attorney, VVri,da\rovernor ol N. Y the Navy Wetmore navyaKentI ! !, Kdmoi.ds on the bench, Morris, postmaster mll^aiVsome ''' ^'"''"^"'"'^ I'""'"^ ^»'« ^i^««. " '^H things to all Jn" that he W.. will now lift up the curtain, and exhibit to the reader a few choice samples of he secret ..p.uions and proc-edings, not of the enemies of chartered paper-money m fo; '. ••' -f'" "T- ^^""'r> ^^'^^'•^"•'^'' ^""^ ''"'' Van Huron krmy,Ttru^! ^^!rYo:i''n£l:::',^''"'' '^'^^^'"•' ^^^'^ 25.]-Address-Jesse Hoyt, Esq New York. [Private;. J Fcb'y 21th, [1834.] JllJ^ n .~ T -." ^"' ^" ^'''^ r^^' ('"''' ''"""S'' '""■^t of it) in yourseve- ? n nl r ? ?"'' '"'■'"■"'y ''""'''V ^'^"^y"" '" «^' the censures and three-fourths Pr ,1 f "i? T Z^"'' """'' '" ^h"""- ^" ^"' «"PP"«inS that Newbold, Georc^e Gnsvvold, Stephen Whitney, or any of the old federal corr;mercial men, were wi-'h us 01. h,s occasion, for any other reason than because they found it for their in- A irZ \rr I ""'MTMn"."/ T^^" '""'''"' '""' '''"''•^ '^" unwarrantable idei. r^-^IW A^rtVAV:^- ^^*^^f^ ''""'''"' ^^'"' '^'"f'' PltKSKNT Bank* ouaju ZLftli: ^^^??.'^ '" ''"ff '''"^«-''->t. on the other hand, / have ne%r hnnjerfrctly snlisficd that we could get on with the fmsiness of the country ivithout rirt'l!?.''!",'^'""' "■'' '." "'."'y."l''or .ltiint[3, tho custom of Britain Ikis lieeii followed l.y u^ Tliere tlio f,nv x^tu'-nT'' '''"••'''^' "'"■'' '•"' "lillii'ns capital, on llic principle I linvc .stated, wa^ rliartereil at Wnshin^nn . i I 10 t™ 17 '' ,''""■''"• ^^ "'" '^■'''^'"" ^"''='' "<■ ^''« I''-'^-''ii"twnal bank was ch:irtere( by Gon>'ro.- iir I)... H I , , , Wmhimton, I5ih March, 1832. a»d a u e7to"toca„°se „1 U, ff » «"»1'7"< -f 'V Editors of ihe Courier if 102 CORNELIUCi W. LAWRENCE FOR THE U. 8. BANK. FEDERAL SEN •lono already. He and Pitcher vote uniformly with the opposition — and Root yesttjnlay (Inumnrrd Tamniany Hull, anil uunt oprnli/ for the Prwter Muir. Another (M)iir8e m [>ur8iicd which they will find in the end will ho highly injurious to the President — that is, preHsin^ the Hank hill upon him at this soshion with a moral certainty that if it reaches him the ohli^jationa of j)uhlic duty will compel him to return it — as entirely premature — four years hefore the charter expires. The chart(!r of the Hank of Knifland expires next year and has not yet heen renewed— the chartiir of the I'last India Company was not renewed till one year before it expired — three-fourth.s of tho President's fritsnds are op|)08ed to the Bank — and he can never, iindi^r such cireumstan(!es, do otherwise than to send tho bill back— if he had no other motive the adjustment of tho Tarilland the extinguishment of the public debt — both occurrinfj[ before the charter expires — are alone sufficient. It is the enemies of tin; President, such as liranch, Wickliffe, Daniel, &c. &c., united with the friends of the Bank, who are determined to send this bill to him, expect- ing to do him an injury, and kill the Bank too — which its friends are certainly doing by presstnif it now. Sincerely yours, C. C. CAMBRELENG. Hon. C. W. Lawrence, M. C, to Mr. Jesse Hoyt, N. Y. Franked, per mail. Washington, 26th Jan'y, 1834. My Dear Siu — I am much obliged to you for your letter of tho 21st, and I AM APPREHENSIVE OUR POLITICAL FRIENDS MAKE A MISTAKE IN GOING TOO FAR AGAINST A NATIONAL BANK, but I will have the pleasure of writing a few days hence. Respectfully, your assured friend, CORN'S W. LAWRENCE. The same to the same. Washington, 31st Jan'y, 1834. My Dear Sir — I can scarcely suppose it possible that I could have written any letter to authorize the paper you have enclosed to me, and I feel deeply mortified that any one should have authorized a publication in a newspaper. May I beg the favor of you to request the person to whom it was directed to return it to me, or at least not to circulate it, and if any one should speak of the contents of my letters please mention that I had repeated to you, that my letters were only intended for those to whom they were directed. I cannot imagine who could have received the letter alluded to. I have no idea any compromise is thought of by either political party. It is my individual opinion that A NATIONAL BANK with vroper restrictions and subject to State Taxes, 4c., WOULD BE USEFUL TO THE GOVERN- MENT AND COUNTRY, and I know there are other individuals in Congress of that opinion, and that is almost as much as I do know. Respectfully, your friend, CORN'S W. LAWRENCE. Senator Wright to Mr. Jesse Hoyt. Washington, 3d Jan'y, 1834. My Dear Sir — Your letter and the enclosure came to me this day, and I have this evening sent both to Mr. Flagg, with such suggestions as occurred to me. Nothing can be clearer, in my mind, than that the friends of the Administration in your City should not attempt to get up a popular meeting upon this subject. The legislature is the proper organ to speak for the people upon this important subject, and there is not a doubt that they should ac* without one moment's delay. It is too late to fear any effect from the allegation that our State leads. The subject is now before the Virginia legiglature, and I think it quite likely they will recommend a restoration of the deposits. The legislature of Ohio have acted, and go strong against the Bank — in favor of the removal of the deposits — and against the land bill. I say th^y have acted. The mail to-day has brought a copy of their resolutions, which i.ad passed the Senate, and which Mr. Morris, the Jackson Senator from that State, says will pass the House 3 to 1. Every legislature in the Union will act upon this subject, and ours will not be behind. If tho frienf subject will be know how (o Miniirhnt i.rrit The stiite of have little efToi embody an iiiu lln' country iroi I have no tir I'reely, I think the li 1st. Kxpresj 2ih\. Apprn> ■'Ird. Approv 4th. Approv ground of the r abused its char These points ihf ftate of thin This is the w iMr. Van Bui enable him to v cm anti-tariff hi We is instruc Mr, Silas W national Ireasur wlien to grind ii In 1824, Jud who acted witl station, as Judg New York, dire authorities, and with Senator Bi at Albany, so a president and i the electors, an electors, and th ornor and Asser [Post mark. Alb Dear Sir — Mr Mr. Riker, mc considered dnubtj electors. Now on that subject wi important to pre^ Mr. Roger S broke down in cr ner removed to A friend Butler. I Judge, a Senator of the Court of I State Senator, a Attorney Genera it, to do " any b( Iscariot as one i America for placi have no idea FEDERAL SENATORS ANn JUHOES CONTROI.MNO STATE I,EOIsr,ATtrRE«. 103 If Iho friomlfl of th Hank in your City utfrnpi to pet up a popular meetinff the ,ubj.o wil he ono wlnrh the fnends of ,he Aclmin,8tration\u/,hV Rr oZlwnTbelt know how to chsposo ol-l,ut m any oth.-r way I ,lo not think ll ZVJ,our mimr/iat rrntrd jmpulntion should be called to aol ^ ■' The strite of feelinff lu-re is very violent, and popular meetinpR cither way can have l.ttle effect .St.ll I .should dislike to see a .neetinp in New York "emmir to J have no tnno lo write farther-but shall bo happy to hear from you often and I tliink the lepiHlnfnre should— in the shortest possible lancuaffe— St hxpress an opinion apainst the re-charter of the Hank in any form 2nd. Approve of the communication read to the Cabinet on the 18th Sent last .Ird, Approve of the change of the deposits. ^ 4th. Approve of the reasons given by the Secretary for that chanae, both on the SILAS WRIGHT, JR. Thi.s is I he way things are done. Is it the right way ' Mr. Van Buren U. S. Senator, Washington, wishc-s his friends in Albanv to enable lum to vote for the tariff" of 1828, and yet retain the goo! w H ?f hL south Mr, Silas Wright, holding the same office in 1834, preferring pet banks to a n.uonal treasury, instructs the State legislature what to ask for, h^ow to ask it and when to grind ant.-bank music out of " the proper organ"-and ' hi 1824, Judge Skinner of the Albany Regency, a name given to the leaders who acted with Van Buren, thought it quite consistent with the duties of hk s^^atmn as Judge of the United Stttes District Court, to write Mr Je se Hovt^ New York, d.rectmg him to call upon Recor- er Riker, a Judge under the State h S. '; ' n ^'' '^™ '"/''• ^'^^ 2"^«» '^"'J »he party by u!ing his influence iih Senator Burrows, to induce Burrows to turn the scale in the S^^nate Cliambe? at Albany, so as to prevent the passage of a law giving the choice of eWfn?«nf iTtz::\:rs%tV' h ''r.- The'iegisiitThoL'dtsirJ ini eiLctors, and Mr. Van Buren feared that the people might choose Jacksrn tT^n/f ^'"'V'^'t' ^""'"H"^- . ^^' ">='"='&^d the lenatefo as to defeat Gov". ornor and Assembly, who were for the bill. (Post mark, Albany.] Jesse Hoyt, Esq., Counsellor at Law, New York Mr'SS^-%^r ^•,^"'™^^ °f ''^ Senate,1t7eit3'i:f tith ^ J' /"^ Recorder. (;,l any rate he is attached to Mr. Riker> Burrow, il 1 /,// ;, ; T ^ I '^ ^'- ■^''"'i '^ '" sentiment with us, his letter to Mr. Burrows mnor/nn / ""^ f'^f ^^^ '"•^"^''' ^"'^ y°" ™=^y ^^ ^^^^ured that every vote k important to prevent the change contemplated. Cordially, R. SKINNEr! Mr. Roger Skinner opened his law-store at Sandy Hill, and when Mr Rntlpr oke down in credit and character, as Jacob Barker's man of aU work there Sk n H nSZSer f^^Z'^.W ' '''''' '"'^•^""^^ ''^^ ^'^ l^^P^" ^"^ °S tots 2p .<\ }tf^^^^'^ grasping partisan was at the same time U. S. District Jdp,a Senator of N.Y. state, a Member of the Council of Appointment and also oie Court of Errors. Mr. Van Buren took pay at the sameSrand acted as A tnlrSr^ S Y ''.'d'^""' "I'^''""' ^ ^^"'^^^ ^''^''"^ "^^'^'^ '^at court k to ?l7u I ,"^N•Y•. and a practising attorney, ready, as his son politely puts s'c iot 3 f^^ ^V r'^- PV ""^ ^''V before me the choice of jfdas AmlTJf T "* ^^t- ^'^^iT^ '^r^^^'^^' I ^'^""Id scarcely forgive the freemen of America for placmg Martin Van Buren among our eleven presidents DISHONEST COURSE OF THE REGENCY ON CURRENCY. CHAPTER XXIV. " Get up the Workies.'" " A inry good plan of a Bank:' C. C. Canihrcleng m- cloakerf. Ili.i amrsc liist war. Ik sets vp fur Conarcss, and wears two faces at Washington. The Veto and Drposi/e !^ys'/cni. Mr. Duane. T/te Specie Clause . A National Bank, George M. Dallas. Silas Wright. Tlio Pru;sl)ytr,iin;i (Jliurch, of wliieli Mr. Biitlcr is such a prominent member, holds to the flocirine, that at the day of judjiiTieiit, [which Mr. Miller, whoii. Col. Yoiina spcalcs liighly of, helieves to he near at hand,] the sins of the righteous will he all proclaimed to the assemh'ed world, and that the saints will vie witii each oihcr in anxiety to confess their most secret and shameful vices and crimes, in order that Chri.et may ohtaiii the greater glory tlirough their pardon for his sake. Though less disposed than Mr. H. to mix up politics and religion, I would mention tiiat ' hut antic'j)ate a little his own wishes, according to his own creed, hy stating ^vith great candor here what he has said and done elsewhere. Many b-ographies are mere pufis iuid panegyrics, like that which he urged Mr. Hoyt to coax " the Youns Patroon" out ot", in order to gull the Alhany Dutch, and make inore plunder to his relative, Barker, out of the >V.ishirigton and Warren. 1 am ambitious to be im- partia'i. Mr. Butler is known as the reputed author of some of the most violent of Jackson's State papers against the bank— as his most steadfast counsellor, (except Kendall), in its destruction. Compare this with his conduct in 1824 — his petition of '26— and his letter of '31, in my last chapter. How the Ex-Cashiev of Jacob I3arker sneers republican bank, and branches — get plunder for our party — and raise other banks of a still mon dangerous character, on its ruins ! " Mr. Tihbets,'' says Cambreleng to Hoyt, Feb. 1832. " sent me a very good plan of a bank." W hat. was it? Look in the New York papers of that data— they record Mr. Tibbets's " very good plan," that oleased Mr Cambrelenc. thf. nre. tender to the principles of Jackson. that pleased Mr Cambreleng, the pre- Mr. Tibbets's plan, which [suited Cambreleng, was for a bank to be located in New York, as " The National Union Bank," with a capital of 35 millions, which woulJ be; in business the moment the chai er of the Philadelphia bank over which Mr. Biddle presided, had expired. It was to iiave branehes in each state of the Union, with the consent of its legislature, was not to circulate more than 35 millions of its paper at once, and to have the deposites, be the pet, keep the public treasure, allow three per cent on government deposits, (chargiiig,of course, 6 or 7 for loans,) and its notes were to be used in payments to the J. S., the army, navy, &c. "A very good plan of a bank " this, quoth the comincrct J represr.itative of New York, in his secret missive to his brother speculator. Yc. he publicly denounced what he secretly desired — and wrote Hoyt soon after '■ that it would be well enough to let * " Get, the Workio.s to Iwup and iloinir. ''Wlir.l were Ihey to do. Mr. Canibreleng— wlial was your object! To place nno million of Uio piihlic treasure in the Commonwei'lili Bank, Boston— twelve milliona more in I lie i\|anlialtan. MechanJM, aiui Bank ,( Anieriai, N. Y.— two and ,i half millionr in the Gi rare' I^ank, Philadelphia, (little uood it did it)— .S'2.(;i0,r)9f, in the Planter's Bank, Natchez— $i,fiR2.7-l-l in a couple of pets at Detroit— and rai.se Corning'.s, 01..ott'.s, Brnr..?nu'a, Cro.sweir.s, Vanderponl's, Hudley's, Marcy's, Bill' li:r's, Dix's, and Porter's stocks in the SiU'eiy Fund Banks created in \>i'i\ and 'Ha. The new stock '..wardft! to these te;i men in these years was, at par, worth ovci" 5>'-2%l.i and I'-M, u part of the same men sot other .8200,nn() wo,-tIi, and cicvred the s.nne profits. Il \i a fact that ti.e deposits in Olcott's Bank, Albany, raiseil its stock .5(1 percent, above par. The Workies. liieii. were wanted by C. C. C. In play secou i liddlo to a b.and of i-raliy speculators- and .vhen many of the new made h.niks were "sucked" by the few, they would be shut up till thev had "sucked in" theniaiiv. Let n. 1). D, he a Bank dir.-^rinr, wilt, ^m)i\ f^tork in i=U(\! ,\ i!a, k as "the City" in Bnffiilo. He iw!WW= .»ti(l.i;:H) for fiHir months— his collea!;ues liorniw in same way- -the hank breaks a.s they meant ii slmiilil- eai-h loses his stock. 'lis true, «.')(KH), lint be hnys the noljs of the hank at lo to .''id cents per dollar, tiaysliis «G0,000 debt with #12,(10(1 to .sa5,aw, and makes S2(i,00u to .«30,l)00 by the operation I Oi'.e jrrjai oSi iliat ( tnust spi.'a'i "anilrelcvg un- ! two faces at Sjiecie Clauit. nent member, 'T, whoiii Col. righteous will vie witii eadi imes, in order ake. Though neiitiori tiuit ' y stating ^vith ogruphies are ; " the Youns plunder to his )us to be ira- it of Jackson's :ept Kendall), n of '26 — ami Barker sneers to the present loing,"* says ■own one ami- 3 other banks a very gooii at data— they leng, the pre- be located in illions, which ik over which h state of the m 35 millions iblic treasure, r 7 for loans,) ?y, &c. "A if New York, inced what he enough to let was your object! niillioiia more in ihR Girarc' I^ank, il in a couple of 's, Marcy's, Biii' JW stock ..mirdei! '. av«race gain i' k io 'hewn hya iHiary 7, I'^.'S. ever Iwfore. Y"!! /w. It must be a iir.s Iriily. MAXWELL." c piMtils. It is a itt Workiea. then, lien many of the eti iu" the many, alo. He ni)rfi>w- eaiit ii slmulil- r dollar, [wys Ins 01tOA.VIZ.iI, STOCK-JOBHNO-CHBRCHILL C. CAMBBELENC-. 105 Sfi:^;!^,™;';',?; 'i:Sz^j''^!'i '"^' ■•-'»•• ?r" »" '■""-j ,1.1 ■!«/ (r1.ii.cr3 llv.ntl.'" ■? u "" "'■'"" '" J'"""' " I"" "1. the N-tt;? ;.';rt :,;,— ;T,fj::^ ; . ;™ i';; iie'c ,rtj"r ;, ',;• ™" ' ' " ^' "'■ ■"-■i i"";'.' '- • T„'a i ll..:ii'.al. w.Sc* wa., n in, J b, 1 f '°J, [", European tupcrcarg,. „f ,|,. ,|„p .,^a, E„„.eh p.»p„„. t„"tic'';:«;'LSM^;r.„t25h^C''-. .rA,'i;Sc'l •'( (*• «s u;«/ oV/ra/,„„s conlractlt in ,,'> fn iV,"^? "'""■' "^'^ .V'P'r money without takivg a,rau ta s,,f„e sfmdcrd! I» the unre.irainj'l ,k. ,(^ tf,,'^./.?..?; It^oi.sanU hauks lie ei,uitubly adfusted ■ profe,.e„ce over tho.e of IWO ^ivii^^'^^^-Z^l'^'V/ ;,:!'^''\ '!'" l'>« ""!".'^'' ProMti.ef.o pay lave a , |l to the .„.,tio„ .i If |,ank,s are nect Ja v V. X e naL, a ''^ " '"■ '? J'"" "" ("'""'i"''^ why nm pay 1 ^e leve.) wouhl not one Hank on allornVS ' C-nrmL^i^n^l *''ff """"""■y,- <" ''"^^ ' •'" <"■><■ 11 ..IS llotuliog the country with ihi-ir u,-.ni,', ,m,,ni' ,,rv ,,o,p^ f.^f "''^''■'''' ** ''! " i""l'i'>"le of instiiu- ai liU^.m.. up l;y hroker., t!,oir oivn ohli^aiio s-each li 1 tr m u\l-V>' '""""" '" «-*"'«'''''' l-a-'kruptcy I'lsframers of the United SVites OVi^ilTntim, ,~f,?V^ "^''^ '",'^' "''^ ] Mtobhtine for the tni.ery "h oT n „ el 'e, p-^pe ^ u^^^^^^^^ ^''" ^^', """'"' «^'' "^ ^'"'^^y. b"' are I d'Hiii;,!,' tl. It •■ thj ..J I.--.! tv'lfi.e" V 1,1,1 r, Mi 1 . i T I '','" "^'''ailed U[x.n the Union. So far from |> ' ap..rtof ihe ...vere,,,. p v'v ,-ove u Uu rt^nc? ufi nri^v'.f ' °' ^''.'^Co'>','re.. wonUI be competed to I Ac and ti,e,. give them the p„',lic pur. e as a" .ci L' ^d^ n' ,? association of .lockjohbers, capitalists, en. ea mo ne I corp tration inl pr Uiihite. the «mie3 n-om r. , ' ""'^ 'absolutely forl«.le Congress ever to j Til.. Co islitntiou. however, has bje i se at no i, 'n r "I" "'""■^>' '"" ''""'"- ^'"'^ "f "edit. '[^^^^^'^''U'iUnMlZ!^-::;^^^ .h. paper or a tbousan.i irresponsible a..o. »'i^e„c,i,.f atr.un.^v. the pnl.lic re 4n e- ,1,e Iv 1 o, ^ ^, '"'" ^'"''^ ^'^'J"'' '" *^"''^'"" !'^^-''«. i" 'l>e .'■-l^'.ial aid p.,l:tical 'Tti, Uai ,1 I le L, ur ■ Li' f ' l"""^"'"'/"'- la.id a,id .stock ;.|)«r,l„ns or '■•!;nc-the.se certaioly a-e ■,.,<. a k aTi,;.'''' We l.t te i oi 1 'Tnt'Ti;' 'f . '""""' '^■""■' "'"'^ "" ""^ "■'ail . '«'ailto.si.iw whai f .,.1||p •„,. , k,,,. r „ \t ^'" ? "" '"^ '^"l ''« ■■'''C. -.oe, Vau Buren, Butler; Wri^J: f1^^:;,^ 'l^.swdl^uwe don^-U^i.""" ""= ^'^'''"- Cambreleug, Law ■ Eve,i here already patriots learn to steal i'leir iinvale periui.iites f.-.nn public -..•eal A 1(1, ffii.y, laos of the conntry's sacred (ire. rt8i=.,if!„h,„,„, ., ^"'^'^'^'•''^''I'f'e^*'''. li.ey let the (lame for hire." rep.s^^:l" U^^\:^ l^:;t, Cte ^Ol^^y^^ ''r^ ^™"" --^ ''"S'-" in .he .heory of our >|"iiy 10 nnku th.iir Din i shn''il4 i.v„l 1 1 ' "" '?""'''e slock- (.bbios oli-a-chv wh.. I,v their reelitors aitor.tii^^/v' .'eve^^c A"4 ^n^ Int/rr.ri'J^ '" """"i." «"'"="'" "' '"^ re.leem the.n-"^' '5 ma« mini.f.cluros and real es?at(^^ ,ll,''r „ X'm! w i! i'" ^'"^ ''^"^ ''^e'''"'"' ^>-~"""' •^a... for a .uUii-M a, o.v.e..s,ve as life, and t .ausf'rra Je^re^si ,i« H. r"' "' .™"'«lh« ^-alue of labor, make o;;r a,„t ,,i, „^g.,^ ^^,^^.^_^ h.,is« wt;; ,;i!':^"J'^^^^^^^^^^ .]atu.n of gamesters, and 5--, '^■ul still ft,o.,r are ,/, i cowlitiou'to amiUlhli^.I^Z Ll"^i '?'","' ."W.f.w cu„ ''« th. ass ? ./t a"Tir-irAZi?Cn^'' *'«"'''«^ffr . T'le Frenchman, in '-1^. ... th« Wall .tret brow. L ,^Jd ^rrcL-LU^Sfi ["^ wiXtoS'^r^'c;' ^ "'"' 14 106 CAMBRELENG POLK's INSULT TO THE MEMOKY OF JACKSON. agiinst fr!!edom everywhere. Under his management, th? Hannibal changed her colors, anil he continued abroad trading in her until about the close of the wwr. On Monday the 7th of Nov. 1814, the patriotic C. C. C, arrived at New York, in the Ilannibal, under Prussian cohirs, 50 days from Bremen, with a full cargo of iron and German goods, consigned to him. Mr. Wm. B. Astor was his fellow pasten- gcr. Mr. Cambreleng turned commercial commission broker in New York — added politics to his avocations, by way of variety, in 1820— stood out for slavery in Mi8£.)uri, and the "peculiar institutions" — and in 1821, being without family or incumbrance, offered his services to represent New York in Congress, declaring, through the National Advocate, April, 1821 — "I am opposed to slavery, or an extension of slavery, in whatever shape it may appear." Was this true? His voles in the teeth of his principles are the surest answer. We have seen that, while openly advocating the destruction of the United States Bank, and denouncing all national banks as evils, he was secretly planning the establishment of one, on a gigantic scale — that while, with consummate hypocrisy, he was denouncing " exclusive privileges," he was openly strengthening that sys- tem through the deposile or pet banks, and anticipating the vast gains on shares and management and jobbing to be got out of the new " mammoth " whose " exclusive privileges " he and his confederates would have for sale. The United States Bank had 25 branches, or banks, associated with it — it desired to establish another, and hesitated between Rochester, Oswego, and Buifulo. Mr. Cambreleng was employed to look at the locations — and he did so, and reported, for a fee of $ 1000. Let the honest farmers of Long Island, and the liberal merchants of New York, compare his public language with his secret instructions to his needy and corrupt instrument, Mr. Hoyt. On the 23d of Oct. 1832, Mr. Cambreleng thus wrote to M. M. Quackenboss and others : " The veto of the President on the bill to renew the charter of the Bank of the U. S., will be long and gratefully remembered by all who feel the necessity of adhering to constitutional principles — who deny the wisdom and justice of exchsm prioilegrs — and who believe it unsafe to arin government with dangerous and un- neressary power." Mr. Cauibreleng's secret letters to Hoyt, in favor of a national bank, with exclu- sive priL-ilrgcs, are dated on the 12th and 14lh of February, 1834. Just one month before that, in a reply to Mr. McDuffie, which fills six columns of Dwight & Townsend's Advertiser, he talks as follows on toother side — " No effectual reform of the banking and currency of this country can take place /(■// we aholish our national bank note circulation. That, sir, is the first step. The next will be the restoration of our gold currency." This helped Van Buren to hoodwink Jackson, who was really sincere in his desires for a specie currency. His courtiers were the very basest of hypocrites, the most consummate of knaves. In Sept. 1837, Mr. Polk placed Cambreleng at the head of the chief committee of Congress on Finance. When the bubble burst Van Buret! had the reins, and Jackson wrote from the Hermitage, July 9, 1837— " Tilt! hidtorv of the wnrUI nr^ver has rccnnli'd siicli lia^e treachery and perfidy as has lieen committed by Iha doposite Ixinks against the Government, and purely with the view of cratifying Biddle and the Baiinss, and 1)V tlie suspension of specie payments, dec:rade, embarrass, and ruin, if they could, their otrn rouvtrij for the selfi,sh views of making large profits by throwing out millions of depreciated paper upon the people- anllini th;ir specie at lane premiums, and buying np their own paper aldiscoiints of from 25 to 50 per cent aid now looking forward to be indulged in these speculations for years to come, before they resume specio payments."* This was the very course that Butler, Barker, and the party had pursued, meant to pursue, and now steadily follow. The wonder is that thep-o/fs«o?t.sof the.? leader deceived so many of us. Jackson's wish to restrain the vicious, fraudulent bankers was noble — but why did he remove Mr. Duane, his true and tried friend, when the latter advised a thorough enquiry by a committee cf Congress into the whole banking system, in 1834, with a view to a permanent system of finance, apart from all banks 1 When, in 1837, the banks had got the plander, when their vaults had been emptied by speculators, and no treasure remained, Mr. Van Buren pre- * Mr. Polk and his trading cabinet have selected a cornipt stnck-jotaher, the president of one of the very worst of these frandulant institutiong, thus justly condemned liy Andrew Jackson, as Collector of Customi at Now York, and his (the collector's) bank and others of the ' treacherous and perfidious' depositories of lS36-r, are actually re-clwsea Ilii Polk, in 18-14-5, to play over a^ain, of course, tho aamtt dishoiies! gam*. tended great n hollow. Ml-. U at the banks k clause was or Young till afti day. The rel ailvo'-ates I hi tion of finance treasury, was future correct- tlie country wli ble statesman, and artful cor hungry and dii and the Russii the reply, but successor sits the Union. Although M due time took ment on the E Let us seleci "Of ill thecnrre OILS in its effects n] the pre.servation of coiiiiecied with the of commercial cred "It is a common so. sir; but if it is perience. It is trm from Pennsylvania series of years, the tions, in constantl) prudent limits, whi nual and steady ace He conclude national bank your governme Go back nov him. Mr. George i pillars of the s son, too, was a he was appointi well drilled act< Tnion. Mr. R. of the treasury Natchez, in fav Senator for Mi whole paper sy; and ruinous to banking institut Silas Wright and a resident o Wright, (who i poadjutor and i Wright was a s 1824, Mr. Wrij Van Buren part though he sat tl party had the i Bulkr's private ton, whom in d plan of revising suggsstion— am CSON. 1 rhanged her the Wh'r. On I York, in the cargo of iron felluw pasi-en- York — added for blavery in tout family or ;S3, declaring, slavery, or an is true? His United States planning the ite hypocrisy, nwg that Gys- on shares and 56 " exclusive i States Bank another, and was enrployed )00. if New York, y and corrupt ackenboss and e Bank of the e necessity of ce of ejclusm ;rous and un- ik, with exclw ust one month of Dwight& can take place •St step. The sincere in his lypoerites, tlie !ng at the head )le burst Van I, 1837— «en committed hy e and the Bminss, heir otrn coutilnj upon the people- 25 to 50 per cent, hey resume sp«cic had pursued, essions of thcit lus, fraudulent I tried friend, gress into the ['finance, apart en their vaults m Buren pre- nf one of the ver' Hector of Customi mss' depositories of ts sama disboneit DUANE, CAMBRELENG, DALLAS, WALKER AND WRIGHT. lor tended great anxiety for iron treasuries to hold the specie— but here again all was hollow. Ml-. Hoyt smoney, under Mr. Van Huren's direct superintendence, was left at the banks kept by Joseph D. Beers and Cornelius VV. Lawrence— the specie clause was only talked of, to please " the Workies" and such men as Colonel Young till after the election ! Mr. Hoyt did not dream of enforcing it for a sint^ie dav. 1 he^ relative positions of Hoyt, the Van Burens, and other pretended si.ecie ailvo'-ates 1 have already shewn. Mr. Duane's course relative to the great ques- tion of finance on which he was called to pronounce a judgment, as secretary of the treasury, was beyond all praise. His reasons were powerful— his views of the future correct— his references to the past full of warning. How much was lost to the country when Jackson turned from the counsels of this truly great and incorrupti- ble statesman, to follow the interested advice of a corrupt Van Buren and his able and artful confederate, Amos Kendall, so as to become " the mere purveyor of hungry and discordant factions ! " Give me the key of the Treasury, said Jackson, and the Russian embassy shall be your rich reward. Not for such a purpose, was the reply, but you may seize it by force. It was so done, and Duane's too servile successor sits in the centre seat of the bench of justice, in the Supreme Court of the Union. Although Mr. Duane refused to go to Russia, the too complaisant Cambreleng, in due time took that $ 18,000 pleasure trip, which may be considered an improve- ment on the English ' Chiltern Hundreds ! ' Let us select one or two extracts more from his speech of Jan. 14, 1834. "Of -111 the currencies ih.it were ever contrived hy man, the moH vicious in principle, the most cahmit- oils in us effects np,.n trade, the m,wt detrimental to the pnl.lic Interest, and the most unsafe, as it respects the preservation of a metallic currency. Is that which is founded upon thecredit of a national iwtik not only coiiiiecied with the finances of a government, hut like onrs. involved in all the fluctuations of every sDccies of commercial credit and dealin? in theni upon a national scale." species "It 13 a common opinion too. that a national liank prevents the multiplication of Plate hanks !t m?.v be so. sir; bulif iti.s, it is contrary to principle, and In this country and In England contradicted I )y ex- perience. It IS true that immediately upon a di.isolmion of a national hank, there will be, as the -eiitleman from Pennsylvania h,as shown an unusual number of applications for State institutions; but in a Ion? series of years the tendency of a national bank note currency Is more powerful than all our local circula- tions, in constantly im|)oln,g trade, hanking, and every species of credit and speculation beyond those prudent limit.., which, wit , out the auency of such an institution, would usually be prescrilicd by iheau. nualand steady accumulation of thecapital of the country." i-i ■ -u u/ me an He concluded by saying—" do not entail upon posterity the calamities of a national bank note currency, and lay the foundation of another revolution in your government." Go back now, read once more his letters to Hoyt— despise, and have done with him. Mr. George M. Dallas's father was a very corrupt politician. He was one of the pillars of the system of doing the treasury business through a national bank. His son, too, was a warm advocate for the Sfi million charter of 1816. In Feb. 1817 he was appointed attorney to the U. S. Bank ; and in 1844, named by the veteran* well drilled actors of the dnnocratic Baltimore Convention, for Vice President of the Inion. Mr. R. J. Walker, a great man in the Jackson ranks, and Mr. Polk's secretary of the treasury, is said to have got a new light in 1843, and written to a friend froin Mtchez, in favor of a third U. S. Bank ! When he accepted the office of V S Senator for Mississippi, he issued a declaration in this form :— " I am against the whole paper system ; against it as destructive to morals, dangerous to the liberties and ruinous to the true interests of the American people— the very foundation of banking institutions is based upon fraud and fiction." Silas Wright, Governor of New York, is fifty years of age, a native of Vermont, ami a resident of St. Lawrence County. Lorenzo Hoyt was long law agent to Mr V\ right, (who is by profession a lawyer,) and his brother Jesse has long been his coadjutor and intimate friend. Well knowing his habits and circumstances, Mr )oo'f l/'^^,'^ ^^""""^ advocate for giving him the control of the Custom House. In 1824, Mr. Wright, m the Senate, voted with Jasper Ward, A. C. Flagg and the \an Buren party, to turn De Witt Clinton out of the office of Canal Commissioner though he sat there without salary, was the soul of the canal project, and Weight's ^arty had the other commissioners on their side. It is necessary to read Mr. "ulicr's private letters to coiuprehend the spite the faction felt in life towards Clin- ton, whom in death they all but deified. As Governor, Mr. Clinton originated the plan of revising the statutes— many real improvements in the law practice are of his suggistion— and, agraeing with Brougham, B«atb?,m, Romilly and the grsat law lOS SILAS WRIGHT — CORNELIUS W. LAWRENCE. authonlics of England, that a clear, precise code of law, for civil and criminal mat- ters, as s^ li as uiiirorinity of procedure in the courts, would be a precious boon to a n-ee people, he urffed it on the legislature in hi.s message of 1825. Van Buren and Buller, liliirv of the Union, in Lawrence's and Beerss banks. He was a delegate to the Hcrki- mer Convention of Sept. 8, 1829, where Theron Ihuld, Aaron Hackley, N. Ci ar- row, John W. Edmonds, R. H. Gillet, &c. nominated Enos T. Throo|) for frovcr- nor, and has had pity on Mr. Butler's pavpcr protet'6, and placed him on the bench. In 1828, he aided at Herkimer in nommating Van Buren as governor. He is of the sect on of Van Buren's followers who are for a high tariff. He introduced into the House of Representatives the tariff of 1828. I liked his vote for .John C. Spencer as United States Judge, because the real objection to him was his hatred to slavery Proscription by slave owners, whose ignorant negroes are counted in the federal representation, in the teeth of the declaration of independence, and in mockery of all representam-e government, which is either founded on intelligence or useless, I do not like. Their weight in Congress was against cheap postage, too, although even the whites 1 1 the south comprise the great majority of that 500,000 of 20 yearp and upwards who cannot read their A. B. C. nor write their names. I would i ihcr proscribe John C. Calhoun nor John C. Snencer— nor did I like the result \. ich placed a very inferior person in Smith Thompsons scat. Though opposed to lexas, if with slavery. Mr. Wright was warm for Polk as president, who would not have Texas unless filled with men and women in perpetual bondage. In Jan 1824 he was sent to the Senate pledged to give the people the direct election of electors of president, but to serve a faction he moved to slave off the question till Nov. Like Mr. Butler he wished to avoid Samuel Young as a candidate for Governor. He is good humored, able, and shrewd— and the company lie keeps will tell his country what he is. Extract of a letter. Lorenzo Hoyt, at Albany, to his brother Jesse, at New York —dated Feb y. 28 1824.—" How are the democrats in New York pleased with the ?nATm^DrV.^^'""^i""-r^'"* ""' Cflttot/n's bolting in favor of Jachon A UGUK BAD, tnasmvch as Jachon may, and I apfnkend WILL, BOLT in favor of Adams ? If things take that course, and Clay's friends will not yield to Cra«. ford, I fear that Adams will be the strongest man. However. I strongly believe that Clay s friends in this State will, if necessary, abandon him, and' cast their weight Hito the scale of Crawford," &c. CHAPTER XXV. Cornelius W. Lawrence— his political career— on loth sides on the Banh-for Van Buren— for tJie Sub-treasury— for Teoras— Mayor, M. C, Bank Presidint, Cham- berlatn and Collector of Customs at N. Y. Cornelius W Lawrence was a director of the United States Bank branch in New York m 182/. In 1834. he was as much a " bank man " as in 1827, but he had by this tinie got a hint how his personal interests might be advanced by voting with i u '" Congress against the Bank. He did so. and for the disiribufion of the pub ic treasure to favorite State banks— then went home— had for his share a two million charter in 18.-36, with two millions capital, ard two millions of dol'arscf the national treasure put into it, but not at interest. He himself, wiih Morcan L. bmiih and other "trusty cronies," were the commissioners to " distribute said capital stock. If the confederates got on their stock the profit calculated by Mr. Marcy, viz. 15 per cent, it would make, on 20,000 shares at $100, $300 000. All the stock was paid m by the shareholders, in gold and silver the V S Trea- sury gave Them other two milhons for safe keeping, and nine momhs from the dav u opened its doors to wit, in May, 1837, it shut them again, refused to pay iti ^lebts either to peopla or government, in lawful money, speculated with it? fuidi!, LAWRENCE AND WH TE, THE BANK AND THE PETS. 109 and if I wo„ld say that it didn't, or that its dirrotors didn't, buy up its own denrr mtrd pnper at a d.scom.t who would believe me? Those who know Mr tL renre s pure d>s,nterest...dness, and who can credit the assert on t ha there was ^ bargain .n 18.U to jrne Imn for a pet bank to be started in 1836, six v tons of Jv^ crnment specs or its equivalent, but that he voted (as he says he d d) contnn o h.s conscience from conscientious motives, may do so. On the smh of Jan"v IH-M he wrote his friend Hoyt of his fears that thoL he was acliipwh were ''Join.; too lar airainst a national bank " On ttm ^ict ^t- ""it " ui were pcing cnnsidcrations, the bank wns tn ho tho Tl « t, „ i • ' ''^"""'^I'l) ana oiner Inion, who had paid nolh nff at all. Mr Polk movor) th-,t ifJiI!', 1 1 . u jtee known toL unfavor.Sde, and Wn^LrVli^l^' /^-h P^^ Mr. Sclden, Lawrence s colleague, on 3d Fob. '34, presented a m™inl Lm -Nevv Vork, prayinjr the renewal of the Bank charter and the reslorS of the de posites. belden moved its reference to a select committee, whrc2d hear easons and report. Lawrence voted with Polk. C. P. White Gillet and VanZnn ? ? give ,t Its quietus in his (Polk's) committee. On the nTh o ' M rc^i a hSv re° spectahle memorial Irom Boston was offered /"or the Bank- M. r k "'^'^'>'/e- pnnt it n.th the nan,r.. Mr. Polk saifie / ^S li^^to print The mTmorhl bS WrP^rni?; ^?f ,'' '^"? \'^- ^^^'"^ ^^-^^ noes.Ld tliey weVe "gift S^ bell P ^\hlte kept below the bar. Then came the home vote Resolved fhn X Sta e banks ouaht to be continued as places of deposite for the'publifmonev a^ h ^e^ra^s"' SeWen'^r'o'^r; J"''?-"' ^^'-j-Jen,, Cram'e" andTleards- posed to appoint a committee to inspect the bank books see who had It i." X P'°" an find whether it had violated its charter. Selden tt'ed L enqdry ^C P wShe and Lawrence were absent, Cambrelen? said yea, and the corn was or^.S me™aLte'"lrP"'"*'"'^"^^''°"^' Mr. Lawrence,'in someso'^; 60 daf ne e^ S;;; i;t^, ^X!:i ^^^^ ''•"^"' ^ ^^^-™''' «« P- ^^y, as if he had^d^nTh" Cornelius W. Lawrence, it is said, was bred to farminjr work and is .,f n T nn„ uc.'inS''" ^T^'{ "' and his brothers Joseph and Ri^h^rdli. w^ J New York auctioneers, and made money in the house of Hicks. Lawrence & Co reti Tn^ Ko ore u became bankrupt in 1837. Their brother Rirharrvvri nnde;s anrLH« bnnkrupt.but his wife (.Tacob Drake's daujrhter) has a liule fortime^^^^^^^^ of oh "■'^'''°'' ^■;;'''L'"i^«- f^'0"elit'« i- nn old man, of lai^e size l^!Zl Wsaruncc, he haa h.nded over u, hi. hrolhe,.' Jo^iirtrihel wiih Ihe civ 110 LAWRENCE AND VAN BUREN LEGGETT — MARCY. chamberlainship, when he (Cornelius) got possession of the coHectorship of New Yorit — it being convenient 1o liold as many hicrative places as possible in one fam- ily. Joseph is, \ believe, of the firm of Lawrence, Trimi)le & Co., a large commis- sion house, and married an heiress, a daughter of Alderman Townshend. In July, 1830, Sam'l Swartwout presided one day at a great Texan dinner in this ciiy — Gov'r Hamilton of S. C, Gen'l Ripley, Mr. Calhoun's brother, Mr. Lawrence, and many other " friends of the Texan cause," were there. A char- ucter for friendship to Texan annexation and an increase of the slave power in Con- gress, is useful to those who would fill lucrative offices in the gift of the federal government. Anti-Slavery democrats must looli to Albany. As a speculator in Bank Stock, Collector Lawrence was always a follower of Van Buren. He followed his lead in the U. S. Bank war — got paid — was one of the signers of the N. Y. com. of citizens at Tammany, who took sides with Van Buren when the Senate rejected him as minister to London — was one of the State electors of President when Van Buren was nominated in '36 — John V. B. made him " run like the cholera," as mayor, with the help of Marcy and the six-million message of 1834. On the S5th Sept. 1843, the " conservative " C. W. L. was one of Van Buren's Sub-Treasury Vice Presidents for the fiih ward at the great meet- ing in the Park — and will be ready to aid the initiated in any scheme to raise more stocks for speculation, state or n-uional, by which " the Albany Dutch " maybe eased, according to law, of their spare dollars. When the Glentworth papers were seized, Mr. Butler addressed notes to the select, " Varian, Lawrence, Bowne, and Allen, to meet hiin on business of great importance." These, with Iloyt, Morris, and Stephenson were trusted with the great secret — and when it was told about thai La^.^rence, Fish, and Alley had said it was all a hoax, Mr. Bryant in the Post, gravely contradicted the error, by authority. Ritchie said in the Union, that " no appointment could be made more satisfactory to the democracy of all classes than Mr, Lawrence," and the Albany Atlas sct forth his " integrity and great personal worth." Mr. Lawrence informed the public, thro' Mr. Sullivan's Morning Post, of his acceptance, he havmg been "voluntarily selected by the President, from his acquaintance with him as fellow democrats (.'.'.') in Congress,'' The Evening Post responded, using the words — "integrity," "character," "con- fidence of the party," and so forth. 'William Leggett, in page 608 of vol. 1st of his Plaindealer, asks, " Who made C. W. Lawrence, and Gideon Lee, and George D. Strong, and Walter Bowne, Presidents of Banks ? Were they appointed solely in reference to their ability fa financial transactions — or was the office given to them as a reward for party seni- ces and sacrifices ? — We have too long submitted to a system of banking founded on political capital, instead of money capital. We protest against the creation of exclusive privileges for the purpose of paying these men for their political services," Mr. Lawrence's character, and the recommendations to office already quoted, are evidence that he will make that vast and costly machine, the Custom House, scne the purposes of the knot of political speculators with whom he is connected. Pros- per M. Wetmore is his most intimate adviser, n.id a most suitable one. On the 24lh of Dec. 1834, C. W. Lawrence, R. Riker, Joim L. Graham, and George D. Strung, wrote toJohnL Moig.m and others, Washington, (the fall election being over), desir- ing an inspectorship for Abraham Le Foy, because of " his assiduity and efficient influence as a member of the democratic family." It would, they add, be " a favor to ourselves." Give him $ 1095 said Swartvvout, and it was done. CHAPTER XXVI. Governor Marnfs Letters— on his Pantaloons — his War Services — his Election— ik U. S. Bank— the Nullifiers—lhe Elections of 1832 and '35. -S. D. Ingham on Clay and Anti-masonry. Flagg on Politics. Senator Marcy to Mr. Jesse Hoyt, New York. [Private.] Albany, ifith Oct., 1832. My Dear Sir — Your letter of Monday evening I received this morning, and with it a breeze from the south, that gives some of our folks a chill. Th« opposition pretend to have certain information that Ritner is elected. GOVERNOR MARCY's BREECHES— HIS HEROISM IN WAR. IH Though wedo notyet yield to thi8 belief, still we are less confident than we were yesterday of Wolte's Election. As 10 the Pantaloms affair* periiaps I am not the person best qualified to advise, Tiioush the charge was right in itself, yet it must be regarded as an unfortunate one, because so easily turned into ridicule. I showed your production to Flagg— he thought it very well, but seemed to think It was a little too formal. 1 he enemy will have their laugh, but I hope it will not do much mischief. o r "» The true explanation is simply this — When Comptroller, I had always made war on lumping charges, because I was Batisfi.'d many (rauds against the State had been perpetrated by them The law provided the payment of the Judge's expenses in holding the Special Circuit. 1 kept a particular account of them, which was handed to the Comp- While on this business some work was done on Pantaloons, for which the Tailor charged 1- i(ty cents ; it was entered on the account, and went into the Comptroller's hands without a particular reflection how it would appear in print. Ifmred no danger for I knnu no sin. Jean not advise how it is best to treat the subject. The article in the Argus, headed, " A very grave affair,'' is perhaps as full an explanation as the transaction will admit of. But it will be well lo connect it. if much must be said on it, with the great frauds and peculations of Holley, A'an Tuyl, John V. N. Yates— (who I believe for love of me writes many of the scur- FeeT S' &c '" °"' P'lpers), in appropriating about $800 of Peddlers' License Now as to my War Services, (a more agreeable subject), I was out two cam- paigns— in 18)2 on the northern frontier— belonged to the party which took from the enemy at St, Regis the first stand of colors taken in the late war, on land, and the first prisoners (about 40 in number). These prisoners were in a house built of square timber. I personally headed the piny that took them— myself broke open the house, entered it, and took from the hands of the soldiers their arms, &c. I care not how much this matter is handled, but rather they would let my Pan- taloons alone, 1 return your remarks. Yours, &c. W. L, MARCY, Judge Marcy, to Mr. Jesse Hoyt, at New York. Albany, 4th Oct., 1832. My Dear Sir— Yours of yesterday is received. Before it came to hand I nad (ietermined to write you in order to relieve the gloom which my former letter was calculated to cast over your mind. Informaiion received since writing to vou has consiaerably raised my hopes. V. Buren writes from the infected District xh^i we sha gain there as much as we can lose in the other parts of the State. That we slia I gain (speaking with reference to the last Governor's Election) I do not doubt— but the extent of that r^ain cannot to be conjectured. I think it will be 3000 HI the 8th District— and about 2000 in the 6th. Our recent news from Washington County IS very flattering. The FACTIONS there do not coalesce. There is a roasonable hope that we shall be better off by 1000 votes than has been calculated the proceedings m \\eschester have dissipated the gloom that hun'.**' N- V.-and the temper of the man. I like Marcy's and Flags'" Ullws. in the niiiD I nder a betUr ByeUjm, perhaps they would have been better men, ^* ' "'*"'- ! : 113 W, L. MARCY's letters to JESSE HOYT. calculation and made a note of deductions and additions, which I think may be reaaoualily b.! depe.ided on, by whicli I v;iry ihd results. About 20,000 a vniiu mitenal variation. I do not wish it exliibiied. Indeed I believe it is nther an idle empl lymeiit to be makiu;,' ( slimates. Tlie best rule is to do the work und tw the result. I am, with great respect, yours, W. L. MARCY. Senator Maraj to Jesse Hoi/t, Esq., New York. Washi.ngton, 3d June [1832.] Mv Dear Sir — T have been sham-fully negligent of my promise to ynu in rela- tion to the result of the inurview with my Albany friends. 1 hoped to be able to convince them that it w.is right and proper for im to adhere to the determination which I had coininiinicated to Cmswjll ; but I failed in doing so. Thiy convinced me thit there wore mure diificuhies aifinding the solection of a propt-r caiiddate than had presented themselves to me. The result was that I am m.t to persist in declining now but am lo be Id alone if it can be done— as I think i* may without injury to the party. It would seem to imply (if it cannot be) that I am a mighty consequential fel- low. You or anybody else may th.nk so if you will, but I do not. Webh has not modified and puldislied your articles. So long lime has now elapsed, and the fever of those who called for me to come out has so much subsided, that prob;d)ly nothing more will be siid by him. How stand affairs in N. Y. ? Thore is a great effort making we learn by the manufacturing interest to get up an excitement on the Tariff— Our friends from Albany and elsewhere thought it would not succeed. Bodies of manufacturers are flocking in here, and thev aiineat about AS CRAZY AS THE NULLIFIERS-I think the extremes will unite and defeat all attempts at compromise. Yours, Sic, W, L. MARCY. Senator Marcy to Mr Jesse Iloyt. Washington, Saturday. Dear Sir— I have this morning received a note from Webb, and I learn from the tenor of it that you had written to him on the subject which engaged us in twu or thr.-'e conversations. I find that our opinions of him were perfectly correct, Attacked as he is on all sides he is willing to attend to others as well as himself! I find my intimation to you is well founded that Bennett had been too sanguine in the mattiT referred to and had understood from me more than I intended to ciM.vev. Webb has undoubtedly every disposition to put things right and he ouuht to be permitted to do so to a certain extent in his own way — I have had full conversa- tions with you and from ihein you can make to him such suggestions as will apprise htm of my views. He may ihiidi I ought to write to him— und so I should perhaps— but 1 have two reasons for not doing so— the one is that if I should go over the whole matter as I did with you in conversation it would make a prodi- giously long letter, and I am too much engaged to afford the time to write it, but the second is I have declined to write to all Editors on the subject (except one \yhich I explained to you.) This resolution was early taken to preserve my posi- tion— /o keep silent. He will appreciate my motives and I hope approve of the course [The date — signature — and a few words of the conclusion, torn off] Private. To the same. Alb'y, 1 Oct. '32. My Dear Sir :— I did not receive your letter of Thursday till last evening. I hasten to reply to it — though the answer will give you no pleasure. I think our chance of success doubtful. Although others are full of courage, I am not. I have looked critically over the State, and have come to the conclusion that probably we shall be beat. I would not say this to you were I not perfectly confident that it will remain a frofn.tnd secret. All reports from New York are that we shall do better than you represent ; yet I have distrusted them. MARCY, INOHAM AND FIKOO, ON ELECTIONS, BANKING, ETC. 113 'Dw IL S. Bank is in the field mA I cannot but fear the effect of 50 or 100 thou- sand dollars expended in conductmrr the election in such a city as New York T have great confidence in the honesty of the people, but it will not withstand' all temptat.ons_ The courupt.on or somk leads to the deception of manv \ou oug:ht to look to the Upper Wards. I fear you will find defections amona the active clectioneerers. •t^i-t.uiio auiuug Though I speak so discouragingly of the result, I do not doubt, if money could be kept out of use, we should beat them. But it will not. Yet gr^at effurU S- out money may save us. ° tuuno wnu I hope those efforts will be made in New York If 1 thought N Y. would do as others say it will I should say the chance is ir our favour, but I feared such a result as you predict ^-'''ince lo ir. My advice i^-dont Bet YOUR MONRt, BUT SPEND IT, as far as you legal y can, to promote the election. We are all determined to deserve success and do not despair of getting it. Yours sincerely, success, J. Hoyt, Esq. W- L. MARCY. Hon. S. D. Ingham, Sec^y of the Treasury, Washington, to Mr. Jesse Hoyt, N. York. n...n «5,o T.i, I r ,. • . . Washington, lOth Nov. 1833. iJLAR hiR,— 1 thank you for the information in your letter of the 8th This Election, toyeiher with thai of Pa., must kill Anti-masonry. Ihey will not again raise .hat flag m the nation, and s.-arcely in a State It will be driven hack into a few counties-hut Mr. Clay is also done ; howei^er pperately he mny fight tn a forlorn hope, that is not the character of his frZdl They cannot again be brought up to the charge. "^ jnmas. Yours with great respect, S. D. INGHAM. Comptroller Flagg to Mr. Jesse Hoyt. rir.o «,„ V 11 L , Albany, March 26, 1832, J PAR Sir,— You will have seen the proceedings of the Convention, and will I Jnubt not,be gratified with the general results. Bowne had been th; prom ment mauforaState delegate before the N. Y. delegation arrived, and a mK y "f he delegation agreeing upon hi.n, it settled that matter at once. Your city leleaa. ^on was kept back until nearly the hour of the meeting of the Coiivention-a^rd Se.deii and a fe.v mischievous spirits among your members, of the House, induced your delegation to helieve thai some contrivances adverse to the city were agreed upon here and that they would have delegates forced upon then, w^ho would To e agreeable to theu.-and .-^elden did all in his power to throw thi cZLlol co„fusion. He was mistaken in his men, and only made himself appear eiious and foolish. .. . . . The strong vote of the Convention relfuked he fariionisis, and a things went off with the most entire unanimity, both in the tdinmittees and the Convention. ^' Tiie delegates to Baltimore I have no doubt form a unit in regard to any measure to promote the interests of Mr. V. B. and the Old Hero. ^ measure Ine political affairs of this Stale never looked fairer-there is some diversity of [inian as to a candidate for Gov., which will be settled at the Herkimer C mvU- t.on-a,idthe names of Jackson and Van Buren will get a triumphant vote and bear down all opposition. Yours truly, """Pnani vote and ^__ A. C. FLAGG. GovW Marcy to Jesse Hoyt, Esq., N. Y. ^Z"^';. Albany, 26th Jan'y, 1835. My Dear Sir— I received your letter this morning on the subject of L. M M t IS proper that Mr. M. and all other office holder! in N. Y. ihose feelings o^ woe conduct has gone with the Wtgs should be fully apprised of mv %iSfn °r hZ Z l°-K . J appointments, and that they should "be made sensible that "they ZJ.T'''^^ t'I''""! about a state of things which prevent me from doS 'owaxds them aa I have done heretofore and should under other circumrtMMsdS 15 (. ■' Ill THADDEUS PHELPS AND THE FREE BANK SCHEME. now. The principal auctioncprs pnrti'ok of the mndnrss and infatuation which Ijs! yeir seiiietl ilie great mass of lin- Me.ch;lnt^ — they anled in givinrr snciess to our opponi-nis in the Common Councl — liicy counlcnaiu'fd and mme praciistd the pru- scriplive jmlicy of liiut hoily — iiirned away their cleik?, ciirnien, &c. — ii| held the coiiibe pursued by liie Wig paper.- — and cheered on ihe Con.mon Ctpcncil in swap, trig th" (lexlis of al. our poliiicai friends. 'J he very men who have been frostnUd in N. Y., with the expressed or implied apiuobuticn of those who wish reappoint- ments, now surround me in great nvntbers,abk\uf; the places and commissions of ihe pro.icri/irrs. What shall I say — what ouo-hl I to 8;iy to these applicants! Shall! send tliesB victims of proscripiion, and victims of the ;j07i*c, home, enijity handed, to beg employment of those who have de|)rived ihem of it. and give commissions to those w hi) are the authors or even the silent approvers of the course pursued by the Common Council and the panic-makers ? If I had but one iiour of official lile to live 1 should eonsider it my soleiim duty to employ it diligently in protecting my jiolitical friends from ])ersecution. My friends in N! Y. ought to look at both sidts of this question before ihey advise a course of liberality which would bo injustice to friends and, as past experience shows, returned with, mgralilude. Yours, &c., W. L. MARCY. CHAPTER XXVII, Thaddeus Phelps and the Free Bank scheme. His private report. Gallatin on Repeal. Leggett on Marey. Letters, Marey, Flagg, Cutting, and C. L. Liv- ingston to Jesse Hoyt. E. Livingston. Message writing. The facts stated in my chapters on stocks and banking will have shown the reader that much of the anxiety displayed by knavish jioliticians, brokers, congress- men, bankers, governors, judges, &c., for national banks one day, and for stale batiks another — this time to have one set of men put forward — t'other lime a dif- ferent set, is, in the main, caused by the vast gains niiide by getting hold of fancy stocks, puffing this this week and that tlie next — or bepraising one thing that jou may get another, as Van Bur.jn did hard money, which served as a pretext for his hungry legions of officials to keep a few millions of soff money not their own— alto- gel hi r. On the eve of the election of 1836, Mr. Hoyt, with the secret promise of the reversion of the Custom House, should his captain gain the day, was indefatigable. AH sorts of proposals were got up to please all sorts of people — and among others it was suggested that banking ought to be unrestrained. The knowing ones knew that the chartered banks would probably soon no by the board, and they were for securing a fresh batch of ' charters,' for sale before the general break up. Uy reference to the N. Y. Evening Post of 19th Sept., 1836, it will be seen— that on the 25th of April that year, Thaddeus Phelps, D. R. Tallmadge, Saul Alley, VV. B. Lawrence, Stephen Allen and Jesse Hoyt were appointed a Com- mittee to obtain a change in the banking system by a repeal of the law confining the stock and scrip banking craft to incorporated associations. Their first puUic report is dated 12th Sept., (Hoyt, Secretary) ; they there state that " a portion of them" went up to Albany when appointed, and attempted to gel repeal, hut conli not — and they go on with a tedious jargon about tyranny, freedom, naked deform- ity, &c., trying to make it appear that they had been unwearied in their efforts at undoing what Mr. Van Buren and his friends had so long made their money by— the monopoly of banking — so that every sovereign in the Union might issue'his currency, and be a banker. To me, a far greater curiosity is the above committee's first private report, addressed April 29lh, 1836, by Thaddeus Phelps to his precious comrade, Hoyt- and here it is : Mr. Thaddeus Phelps, at Albany, to Mr. Jesse Hoyt, at New York. " Dear Hoyt — Wc arrived this morning and have already accompiisiied wonders. Our influence has akeady made Six Banks in the House, (no fear of the Senate), A REMARKABLE PRIVATE REPEAL REPORT. 110 .T,d hy tomorrow night there is very little doubt we shall have made twenty or I >r.y more. \on follows who are in favor of the n.j,eakrs, may all now go to He .a your own way^ Consider your restraining law repealed. Consider La partner n. a Banking Company-I put in 2,000,00()-Ca!! on John Ward for iho money, ^o more at pre.s.;nt-Your loving friend, TPIADDEUS PHEI PS " Arrived on Monday mornini?." o,. . ' ', " .If I . . 2!) April. iMonron li;is sent in hn allefrjancc ind tha iv..ii,.„ a • . go.otheD-1. Doatoff. the Native American party. May » n. York, ,„b«:ribed a d S ilS ilch „ ilf'S Z\"" ,"!".' "'' "l '""''" Ih. sli, al,„ut bank oharTc L. bc»a„ at be ve 1 ,1^?^! T^'l ' tr""" """ bySKeui. '11 IL^^^^^^^ was examined by the eommission appointed ers the oHicia s shnn W nt.on^ ... i nb l)y law : relijiic.n mild, a yoke ' Jlo tame the dtoopinir soul, a trick of state, m, . ^"'"^sK'l'eir rapine ami 10 share their prey. and erru;tmVlSLlJ!on"o7l"'^ ^'^^ .''^ '^'''^' ^" -^^^""-^ ^^^^ --"Pt auara of tt P H,.Pn^ n \ '^ '^^^' "^'^^ '"' signature as governor, was well Thef^w fetters of iT^ I "^ '" m' ,''",'"'-'^y ^"'' «=^^1^ ^^ their chief magistrate a se'ii^^Wp 2. f ■'''''''' P"''''«'"-^d «''"^v some candor, and even talent, with _se^m.ng desire lor fairness. But what of justice do we find in his general con- r-iif >u.lTl'o?a"tLuIhTuLhf Jnp'v'^^^^^^^^ '""'^ co»./7rm.rf lo-day-I .io not mean ''■"••I in t.k"t sf„s^ „.,,/,. rn r> •^ 'Jeieral Wmche.siflr, who may he a viirv nint.s rr.an (.,-.;; /,}„ ,- it Sec^rettry was confirmed ^ i/^-^-binip.on'. nommanon was rejected. Young f-ultoa's nomination i' n:^ ?olll^th\^T;^ro'pS»y i^^a"„'.r ^J.%nd^^';^trKri^l'^rvt^ "^^^^^ ""-""-^ Sincerely jours, C. C. CAMBRELENa 116 TtAOO, MAHCV, AND CUTTING ON REPEAL. MVINOSTO duct? Mr. Lctrgett knew him, and thus describes him, V(d. I. Plaindealer, p. 4.')0. " H»* is a wi'iik, crinping, indffisivu man, the more tool ol'a miiiiO|ioiy junto, their oonvfnicni instrument ; nnd white he pives his sanction to their un- worthy m'.'isuroH, wo 8urvi Bu, m .luikIs hiirher throiielioui tlie Stale than he ever did— witness the toaals at the varioui celelira! ■;,';;■» V'li if I W'v.-c in hia place I wonld trouble myself but little about the carpings of such men as you n-'w— -li '-■ an : . lolhing without him. What would have become of the opposition if it had not been for h' 1 .' wi:i :■ y laoi-e— if I was Van Buren I would let politics alone. He can be and will be the Erslcine of the f i,e,u, \> i;!. h is an ambiUoii more luudabie than tiie desire of political prelermenl. He yeaienlay opened a .-,xuse in the Supreme Court in the most concise, elegant, and convincing argument I almost ever heart!." LIVINGSTON ON BANK NOTES— BOWNE's CAUCUS REPORT, BY BUTLER. 117 ICP I am .afmi.l-ha8 turned a sharp angle, and will comfi out Honk. See his voto i.Hiay I ..morn.w ho will be t,n.u«ht to the hull rin^, and stamped a« he dmr es i^:'^::Z^::^;L;'7^' '"•' ^"•"" ^-^^ "•^-"-''^ ^^--'-^ - ^'- ^^^^-^ D.. vou see vvh., e.,.npo.se the conunittee en the repeal «f the restrainuiff law in our If, use' Opden, Chairman ! the violent opponent of the measure Sj^a" . e nprntof the h.rmer« Trust and Loan fon.pi.ny' the inlnnale ot' John l! Grahu n, .Seymour & Co. ! the guest of the forn'er last spring i.. New York am J. lubby fnend at the Syracu.se Convention ! ]n^ But we will delbiU the Jans lildiartetS.'^^^ ^"' '"^ "'"^'^'^'^-'''" ^^^ '^^ I'--"y repealedZll 1 • Xj. v>i [Post-mark, Albany.] Jesse Iloyt, Ksq,, Wall street, New York. ... J , Albany, Jan. 21, 18.37. I am inclined to fhmlr, my good fellow, that you arc more than half right in the npuuon ^xpre.sed in your last letter-1 have given the subjeet of private issues miieh anxious thought and 1 confess now light begins to dawn upon mv darkened ,P,P oc-thoHouds are fa-st breaking away and I .hould not be su^ i.3 I final Iv A.orm.nod o mamtain even to obstinacy that a note of an ineorpo'rated bank as M. Iter than he bill issued by a private solvent individual-I miy have been de! i,Kl,M by the eharm vh.ch too commonly attaches to a corporation, but the spell is n,..rly broken, and another mghfs retlection may mctamorph.ise me into anSev .hie advocate of shin-plasters-Some limitations and securities are indispensable ?o duard against abuses, for I cannot admit your theory to its full extent, that f he pel! Tie are under all circumstances capable of managing their own affairs. In s?me e.scs they must be protected against themselves. My distru.st <.f their intell gS eomm.ncjMl when they .deeted such a poor devil as myself, and until they choSse a?en ts who wil respect their feelings and their interests I will dispute thei^ eapac^ ny to govern themselves Don't disclose this heresy and above all don't let me see it in the Evening Post in the form of " an extract from a letter fmm aI bany.' Do you understand I In a few days we shall have under coSen" on a jreneral plan for private banking, provided there is sense enough in Albany o ma- ture one. It IS designed to keep this subject distinct from the rtstraininglaw Cutting has just called in to say that he has received some letters from you and desires me to say that you must work harder and talk less. What im pert inen lan- guage for a servant of the People to hold to one of his masters ' Yours &c CHA'S. L. LIVINGSTON. CHAPTER XXVIII. 12; ; ? %^''''- ■ ^T'"'/"^^'^' ^"'^'^'^ ^''/""•^ ^S^'inst the Tennessee Resolutions for Conventions by the people in place ofCavcuL by the volSns Letters, Butler to Hoyt. Open Rebellion. Andrew Jaekson. Letter Gov V Bitrcnto Hoyt on Providence and Jud^c Swanton. Crawford on foreigners' \an Burcn on Universal Suffrage. Looking ahead. joreigners. Mr. Lorenzo Hoyt to his brother Jesse. Dear Brother-I send you by this mail the ReponV '^' ^'oV'^'on^Te 'I en v^ ,r nntil 'f ' ^^^'^^'^^^^f its principles-but I presume, from the circumstance Se ntTi'''''"^^ '° exactly whh Mr. Butler's, that the principles rontamed in the report will meet your approbation Mr GarH Sr h1 "'^'' '^'y' ^i*^"' '\" ^"^°1"^*"" «*■ ^'- ^^^^^S in relation to electors was under discussion, made an abusive and unjustifiable attack upon the editors of the evtfr..! w '™^'' J"?*^ \^- 'y'"'''' ^° ^^« "'^""^'l the indignation and disgust of every sensible nnan witlnn his he- -^no- U-^ "m-c^A ^h- i,^--r v- ,. &"'"•."' tenpv in five* y ;.—- " '"s ne...,ng. n.? cccu^ed cfi^ Argus ul political incoiiBis- 2?;on/K 3 ad^ocatmg an alteration of the electoral law, and then in a few weeks after reprobating the measure as unwise and anti-republican . 118 BUTLER OPPOSED TO NOMINATIONS BY THE PEOPLr:. The opinion ihat I always heretofore entertained, that Gardiner was a man of vcrv limite.i talents is now irrevocably confirmed I must confess I wa& not ;i little astonished wh^n 1 see who the New York members were. I pre- sume they arc men of tolerable pood sense, with the exception of Crolius and one or two others, but as for their abilities, they are, in my opinion, contracted. . . LORENZO HOYT. The State of Tennessee wns friendly to Gen'l Jackson, and its Ic^jislature passed resolutions, in 1823, reprobatinir th'> practice of members of C'tnpress meetinir jn Caiinis and nomiuatinjr Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States, as an luuhic iriterforence witli *he rights of '.he peoole. Thes ■ resolutions were trans- mit*''d t!) ihf; IcKisliit -re of Now York, (see piipcs 11 t(. 13 Senate Journal. I8i?.t) and referred to Waller Kowne, Jona& Earll, and Perley Keyes. Benjamin F. Biit- ler, bcMig, like Van Buren, favorable to Crawford and the dictation of caucuses of p.irty Coiiffressmen, wrote a report, wliich the Senate's committee adopted aim Bowne fathered and signed — (see pages 17 to 22, same volume ) Mr. Butler, in ihis report, asserts, that the caucus dictation, by members of Con- gress, is a proper and constitutional praciice — that in case the election should after- wards go into the House of Representatives, the. members who may have recoin- ineuded a candidute to the people in caucus are not thereby boiuid to vote for him themselves — that a congressional caucus is the most clTectual mode for preserving an equality to the weaker States — that " there is no other practicable mode of con- centrating public opinion " — that State nominations, by members of the State legis- latures, the only substitute, arc attended with serious difficulty — that a caucus of members of Congress forms the best priinary agency for selecting candidates for the presidency, being a powerful combination of influential men, who follow a safe course of precedents — and that a congressional caucus next session is " peculiarly desirable." To me it is evident that unless the power of nomination is in the people they cannot be said to have the power of election. Mr. Butler's negative right which lie is ready to assign to the people, of dissenting or approving when a presid'-^nt is pro- posed to them by a private meeting of 66 congressmen, as was the case in 1824, where only that number riominatcd Crawford, shows his innate dislike to democra- cy, which in such a case makes the millions sovereigns or dictators. Who that reads this volume will fail to admit that while the constitution may stand for ages a monument of the wisdom of its framers, the administration of "it maybe at the greatest possible variance with the spirit of its provisions ? The Union had chosen some 210 legislators — Mr. Butler desired that threescore of these men should regu- late the succession of our executive magistrates. The people had elected certain men to do their will — Mr. Butler desired that these men should contrive to make the people do theirs. All this, too, to crush Jackson, and secure the return of a U. S. Bank man ! In a letter to Harmanus Bleeeker, one of the gentlemen who, in Congress, most steadily opposed Madison and the war of 1812, dated Aug. 16, 1831, Mr. Butler talks thus — " His (Jackson's) high station — his venerable age— my admiration of his character, a sentiment imbibed in early life, and often ex- pressed in print and otherwise, &c. Jesse Hoyt, Esq., New York. Albany, Feb'y 20, 1831. My Dear Friend— I hope the Council will soon finish all they have to do, as the excitement produced by their labors is very great, and the difficulty of pleasing everybody very strikingly illustrated. Yc_ will have seen by the time this reaches you, that they have given me an office— without any trouble or exertion on my part — or much on the part of my friends. The minor appointments for this city have given great dissatisfaction, and it is as murk as we can do to kerp the people from open n hellion. Of all this however say nothing — as 1 hope a few days of reflection will compose theangry element.^!. To judg ' from the violent expressions of those who are disappointed, one would think that our prospects for next Spring were rather blank — bvt you know it is the ginius of democracy always to be impctuuus and sometimes to be rash. I have only time to say that you are always one of those for whose health, happiness, and future prosperity I feel the liveliest solicitude, &c. &c. &c. B. F. BUTLER. I dents who would VAN EUREN TRUSTS IN PROVIDENCE-NATIVEISM AND JUDGE SWaNTON. 119 [To the same.] . My Df-^R S,« Th„ P ., . " Wash N, Nov. 26, 1836, [he real danger ..f his condSn '^''"'''''' J'" "'^'^'^ ^ " "«' rm<«rX«A/._aud hence is '^"JetoTrdou'bt ';i;"deS;"/'MrV"^ n' '""^ "^&<' «'^^--y^t there North Caroliria done noblV' ^'' ^^" ?"■■""• ^ave not Virginia and •' ' iruiy yours, B. F. BUTLER." Governor Van Buren to Mr. Hoyt, at New York. "\fv n « ■« " Albany, Jan'y 4, 1829 " .e,4e tI: oa?.irs^al"Se"lLlfwi'..'r "h^ 'T''''^'" ^'"^^ ^'^ hut that cannot be as soon as vou desire T 1 ? embraced to send you a copy; be. you to write me always wit^hequa freedom f oT V"^'^ ^'"" ^""^ '^"^^' '^"^ any act of mine to the prevrienTof .)f.. ^ ''^""ot consent to contribute by responsibility. Prevalence of that great political vice, a desire to shun Remember me kindly to Mrs. H. and believe me to be very sincerely your friend, .he^S7tlS;l^i,?tttrk?'l';'^^^ '^^"""* '- '^-" ~ZS"by CHAPTER XXIX, 'tS.^^^;^.f^,,^;£7^'^^^"^^^^ ^W ^0 charter '^ Ne. ,/™//i /Ac Manhauan. Four Directors Zptffn'n H *°Jorrow the Dcposites fanajMorhs. Attorney Ge^LraZSltttoLy^^^^ J"'' "''"'"'" ^'"' '"^ can Land Co., or the Irish Middkmnftt 'r/^'Z"; ^w""f '• ^'^'^ ^'"^'•^- i?m/e/-5, 1807 ^ 1812. Fan B-tren rrr^/W.V 7"' ^""^'''' '""'^ '''« Anti- ikcn after getting elected Tthe^^Z:'%ff^:;Z! ^^r ''"' '-^ '''''''"^ ; ^ Who would never veto ,ro^: ^Z:!Z S^^^i^^^ZSl'Z nze [f He^ n P^-'f^-L'^ '" '«^''. '"'t the "atL '.f 'd^Vin .e'lT'/e t'uZ/ n,'','''-";' ^'t' ^■»" «"^'" ^^^^ ! '.izeiH. He hail said, that a vei-y " etfecliial nipam nf „,,,,,■ ^ "upop'ilar by denoinicine adorned e.c.urage .heir marriage with our froXim^^ 'he Indians, fvo, Id I o •• , ;f "ment to do this, ilian to receive v tl Cen arn « a I;-,"'.'/ '^'" ", """''i "« "'"re honnral, e S IhSinr ^f' yaii Biireii rememhered 1824-aiKl tW who fnr^»' i, ^^ ««■" 'cAf;, Ac Afco;nfs [•'; u ' °'? '"'" ^iiwle quest on, mined more than pnV,n„h ,i, ■ r"}'^^ "« « I'ard hlow, . , . l2" ^'X" '"„ '^32, before the election cXcte a «2n=l^prS''' L" "" ^"'"' ""^ ^^'^^^ Vorii to elect hini •> ta,re,l Van Rare,,, more wi.lely dif^n ^^ H s onn;me,r,^!r,ir,'',rrt'''''l' '" «?" '^e Truth Telle" uhid, I /it""""""' 3tale.sman, Clinton than the Irish n'JhlL^i ^' "," ''''"■"' '"^ '"«» ''.-ill stood more true P'ln 1 n ' 'i " "T"' "' .'■".'"''' '■«'"'" 'heir elections ra er a curse u'-i^f.Wp ""^ "'" '"' T'"^"' "'"riber 120 JESSE HOYt's gold MINE AT NEW POTOSI. for state banks and national banks, with a paper currency, baseless and visionary a- the Arabian Tales, was, as 1 have already shown, to keep up political inliueniv with the millions, and to run riot in sspeculation at the expense of men of wealth and property. What did Van IJuren or his ' followers' ever strive to carry through IW the good of their country ! Who can fail to see that the removal of the deposits paved the way, and f^ave the means for the American Land Company, increased thi value of other hank capitiil, and gave an impetus to stock-jobbing? Mr. Jesse Hoyt is, in his way, a Pizarro of the north— nay more he is a Cortez The latter tortured the Emperor of Mexico, that he might get gold— the fornix tormented and beggared merchants of high standing in New York, for a like rea- son. Pizarro's ruling passion, like that of Hoyt and Butler, was gain. If thp Spaniards got the treasure of Peru, Mr. Hoyt had the Custom House treasury and New Potosi. The bible, through the priest, was the signal for tlie wanton inassaon: of the luca's army, by a band of greedy fanatics, and the robbers of Atahualpa as- sembled to divide the spoils ol an innocent people, procured by deceit, extortion anc cruelty, distributing the wages of iniquity after a solemn invocation of the name oi God ! Mr. Van Jjuren, when he had attained the seat of Clinton, writes to Hoyi that he was to depend on " Providence," in his crusade against the treasures of iis Americans, native and adopted ; and this was very much, too, in the line of Butler- but the Hoyts did not deal in the nonsense of invoking heaven as the patron of villainy. This much as my introduction to Jesse Hoyt, in Georgia, digging for hidden treasures in New Potosi. In Dec. 1H30, Mr. H. McAllister wrote to R. Ward, Hoyt's law partner in Wall street, mentioning a man of science who might be emplyed in the gold region, ex- amininir a tract. Soon after Jesse Hoyt and others bought ' a gold mine.' On ihe ISthofMay 1831, this McAllister and a Mr. Rich'd J. Arnold wrote from Sav.uinati, that New Potosi was " the most astonishing place in all the gold region.'" On the 3d of June, the original, value of " New Potosi" was increased from $27,000 lo $38,000 — and such a bungling accountant was Hoyt, that he and his partners, in giving their ' cash and notes' for an increased share, signed for $6,500 instead u: $2880. On the llth, Hoyt wrote Arnold, " If we should be offered $ lOO.OOii (for the mine) we should not know what we were c^elling." On Sept. 19, Hoc proi)osed to ask Georgia to incor|>orate the gold miners near Gainesville— wiiii j shares— personal irresponsibility. &c. The legislature, at Milledgville, v as ap- plied to, accordingly, hut Arnold and McAllister wrote from that place— " Tin stupidity of the majority of the members of he legislature surpasses conception"- half of them dont know wlnit a corporation means— and a failure is i.pprehendiv! JudL'eBerriun, who had been Jackson's Attorney General, was friendly, they sav, to_ their si-heme. Nov. 27. i\Ic A Ulster wrote Ward and Hoyt, in great dud;ieoli. j of course, that after three dnysstrngcrle in the t^enate their irohl mine iiicoriJOi'alioii bill had been thrown out. Berrian had done all he C(nild, but "the liesolttr; | ignorance and and the blind and foolish envy of the majority, have carried the riav. " The Georgians would incor|iorate them, he added, but were so slvpid as to desire | to mend their hill by making " the individual property of each stockholder liable I'.i; the debts of the corporation," (so that if the concern should have detiiulters llic public might not be cheated.) But, quoth McAllister, it was to get rid of persona; responsibility that we souL'ht Icsiislative assistance. One day they only losthvl three, and the next day gained over seven members— but in Georgia the people like to see what is doiuL' in their name, and it is the law there, as it should bt everywhere, that, previous to a 3d reading, every bill, i)ublic and private must be published, and wait public opinion a certain time "before it can pass. This proviso killed Hoyt's Potosi— the people saw the thing— they wrote their agents thatthej did n ot like it— and said McAllister— " on Monday twenty intelligent member ill advising tall Yankees to wed Indian squaws in imprnvc Ihe japoose system of rearing our voulk. 1 s inuid ncii woniler to see \ an Biiren yet quote Jea'orson where he wiys lliat ii was a Scotchman (Dounlas) Who taught him, and that another Calcdnniaii (Small) [irohahly fixed the destinies of hia life, by «ayi>f sliowMig that we owe the Declaration of ludupeudence, indirectly at least, to immigration from.Nunii i>ritain. .^ > o ■ The writer knows that Mr. Vnn Buren is secretly straining all his powers to get back to Washlnstoiiii I head ol the ataie, but the budget of ways and means ho hai; not seen. The result, would he, worse lluii!::' I Ihira ruriicr, whsa— Ritchie, to gull the populace, fluttered like a alool pigeon ; Hoyt furnished funds, Dick Davis wind, and Butler the Religion. Bon Butler the Religion I CORPORATIONS— THE MANHATTAN BANK -SLAVERY. 121 le treasures of .^ntended against prejudixic, ignorance and the d , ,„„v ever exh.bitPH i„ - hdiatn . . . . this rasca y apoloiTv for a lplZ.iyi'!^?-J ^l"^'' hisinfernnl place to -t folly ever exhibited in ™,.fed Hoyt that Mexic.rS;r/s no'^peS X-Ui n7 '"' ^"^ '''''''' ^"^ J.^^^^.^:S!^^^ f ^ ^^nion .ill p.o,.ably ,nd the land of Montezuma rPioTceh.reSmlfhr "' ''"'^ ?''""' ^""^'^ '"" (who may not read, write or ma^rv h.l^lT ^', ''V'^ ""jlfrstand it, slaves, charters, banks, stocks, fwiutS of LoLf""'^'"''' '^' u,' ''^^ ""^ tortured,*) Van Burens and pious kuersTvviVn^^K' '""'P""'"''^" '°'"P°''^^^»"^ gold mine bills before Ihe? pal" 'em. ^' "'"'^'""'y' ^' '" ^^"--g'^' «« P""* Thomas Moore impertinently asks, Th,'",n!n' '"^'' P'"'«"C^ for a nin„,e„i ,ea 1 lu! 1 ncilley niana of pride ami iiii.s.Ty, UI sla\ iiii; blacks and deiiiocrulic whites .' No matter— he don't travel in Mexico. more than the Georgians. March 17 anH Vr^ T' iV ^1]''^°?^^ P^"^^'^ l^no^ Dr. Boyd, a person of gr;atSrand hTred at' ATI'^ ^^ndMcAiH^ter wrote that that "New Ktosi would yield $ 20 nnn If * ^ "'°"^''' ^^ "^^^^'^ '^'^•/^•"rt/y oould not conscientiously rSoLcnS'Janitalistrto""'' "l-Pl""*''' ^"' ^^^ d"«^«^ investment. ^ recommend capitalists to go as high as $200,000 in an hehronhV'S'j; fiaitttte^tL^'" 'S?^ ''f '^'^'^ "^"^^^ B''"^' "" Thaddeus Phelps &cfmfbpr.!.t r""'" ""^^ '^'''^'^ «"d ^hos. Oakley, New York Mar;i*d ' and Illinois ^r^T^ °' /'^"'^ ^^"^^'^ '^''^^ ^«'=^'<^« " embrace " New Potosi? " ^^ ''''^" ' ^^''^ '"^'"'^^ ^feorgia, so as to from £ MaVhaUanB^ank "t[dt tt^'timpT? U ' '"™T^^ °*' " ^^^ '^'^P°-»««" ler's) brother's namewas 'no in fh^ K T *^'^^ ""y* ^'°t the collector«/fi his (But- westirn land specultions $3?) 000 u'f, ^T^^ T"V" ^" ^=^" «^^^^t' °^"'ff ^o hattan at the blow up What t^nT V! ^^'f,^^ the brothers Butler owed the Man- P. White (whc voted fof he removal t^NewY^'^j^ T^ $ 258,426-Campbell elsewhere on a division,) and son S^TS 408 1 m' n '•, "I **'" "P^^'«' «^ ^^^ Suffern « -ST Ros -Ti^ honiM72,498— James McBride $75,799— and Thos 2r" Nof^tlor m mm>e'vTv?[H' ^^J^ey borrowed over 'half a mUHon of %, at a rate sol^wha! beC c^nt pe cent ?t w^ '' '"^'P '''' "^^^^^^"^« '••'^^•■ P. White should preside at tlTe Irea Van Rnvpl 7, s.SrP"'"' '1"'*° P^P^'"' '^^' ^• he did so. Why were not Colter ?n!^ MR 7 ^^^^"^ meeting in the Park, and '00, lent the ManhattairSfoor W^^^^^^^^ The State, _j_ Mannattan $700,000. Who was it understood was to borrow that ;'li"a 20.a(Ki fn,e whitP persons e.rh i^r'n ~'" '""""^"^y J0,(X10-i„ Alabanm 23,()0()-and^ &, tlfoir the Slav I ,,,,,,„ ,^„,,^,,P0-;^n^^^^^^^^ ,„,, ,ho ca,. neither read t'w^t'/i tii?laiid iKid reduced hera to two Vo,,nrv^.,nF,?f , , , '" ! "i; '"""='?'' ''""'^ '" five cents, althoiich Posaee and advocated the meaJ^a- so ardem v dei ed hv a! l?-!'-'''."'''*' ^"^''^l"'" IW-^Dnffie, oppo^^ed chefp 'irr*';"'/™''"''' '" '''ivemore \'noa,7ce an f n 1 th , v '^ * ;li.^3olution of the Union"; nJir'-'" ' '■''"""^ ^° ^«« TexL adde 10 the vast a?ea t h " Tr '"!''' 4',' '^"'"■''^'^ •''''^■'' =""«« ''' "Polish »! mielligence and American freedoni nml v»i i, f •"^"''.'""•^ cnrsed. Slavery is, must be, ihe deadly foe fians; and the Presidency thn^PnM^' T. ^ ' ''^''","^^ "^ interests with the worst of the Northern nolti rywhere. South nnrolina. thrnn^irhJr ab'e ica c? nir P 'l1!'7''"f", '•? ""^ """^"^^ *""' ''•''-ecks reform in England would dare to acknowled^^B ''°"""*^ """^^ aibitrary and severe than the veriest aristowat 16 122 VAN BUREN AND THE WASHINGTON AND WAREEN BANK. out again, John* Van Buren fashion? The report of March 14, 1840, is rather brief on such matters. The Manhattan made stock loans, too. In 1836, they had $ 2,800,000 lent out to favorites on fancy stocks pledged to the banks. Who can wonder any longer at the scramble there is to get hold of the proceeds of taxation laid on the people, and at the interest that was felt by the faithful to exchange C. P. Van Ness for that regular dealer and initiated democrat, C. W. Lawrence! Barnabas Bates, pensioner of the Custom House, owed the Manhattan nearly $10,000—8. & M. Allen $56,000— W. G. Bucknor $27,000— and Robert White $20,000. The spoils were carefully kept in the family. Gov'r Marcy borrowed of that reputable concern the New Hope Bridge Co., and B. F. Butler left his i u for $ 5452 with the Baltimore Life and Trust Co. Robert White, the Cashier, was soon after tried on a charge of petit larceny and embezzlement, and purloining the bank's loan book. Mr. Butler, if I remember, was for the people, and Judge Ingraham charged the jury — they agreed to disagree — and perhaps the new trial is postponed to take its turn after those of Price, Hoyt, Swartwout, &o, The American Land Company was formed in 1835, and was a natural result of the successful scramble of Van Buren and his friends for the possession of the national treasure in 1834. The Albany Journal quotes John Van Buren, Silas Wright, Croswell and Burt, as among its stockholders there. Charles Butler, bro- ther of Benjamin F., was a trustee. The intention of Messrs. Butler and Wright was to buy the publiclands — the very best of them — as cheap as possible — with the * It would seem as if nothing that is corrupt in the political world could he completed without Hoyi. Van Buren, or Butler having a hand in it, some way or other. In the early part of this volume are Bui- ler'3 letters, reconnnendin:? Hoyt to Barker for a cashier to the Bank of Niagara at Buffalo. IsaHcQ, Leake, Mr. Van Huron's editor of the Albany Argxn, was its first cashier, and the notorious Isaac Kibheiu president. Its parent was Martin Van Buren. On the >''lh jf Feb. 1816, the bill to charter this bank was referred to Jacob Barker and two others, in the N. Y. ^senate, to report. Mar. 8, the bi.; n committee— Van Buren and Cantine vote for it— Barker kept below the bar. It provided lliat S4(lO,()0O should be the capital, and the bank to issni'l (o tie rnrm-,rr,?«! ;■: j tolerated, thus obstructing the regular course of legislation, and casting suspicion as to the purity oflegis- 1 lative acts Powerful indeed must the consideration be, whicli can induce men of standlns in society to leave their families for a whole winter, and devote themselves for hire to the will oftieii employer." THE AMERICAN LAND CO.— THE ANTI-RENTERS. 123 t'^:''Mm;:n:i^iZs':t^^^^ ^^^ p-p^e - high as me stating the names of pSsons whrwnnlH t ",*^ private etters are now before tion, hadLt 1837 and Yevents ^ have cleared millions by the specula- Lieutenant Governor Root, in his soepfh in tho ,\r v « . , r- , ™ sury, 7th February, 1840, thus desLrerthL^v'^st rn^nlpd;""'^' ""^ *'' ^"'"^'^^^- was placed at the head of it as President. ^ general ol tlie United States, [Butler], and hia brother „£ i,: mZeUt tl fS "-''""'"■ " ''''''^' '"' '"-^y P-'l '"'» the Treasury waa ..ceivabl. at the land ,.^ti^:i\4^a^r/4S^^pt,rd ft'ruX^t^^.y'^ott ,tWr /^^'^ ^•^ -- - ^^^ -p^^e. the protection of the Government, and made a deposke B^ink xt;?™ if n 1'?' 'r'^'U'lT^ ""'^" "»der ,nby the .peculators, Who were in the secret, ft ^^of^^rllT^^^^^^^^^ s^^ !.'rtorc^arS cL^rta^/en'^a'crlstr sTee^rth'eTrS; Th^'-t" "" P^^"-"' ^^« •^«^'' "^ and the ke?s returned without teiii^ unloaded reasury, the treasurer's receipt procured, J,S%7lt"^re^-^,^-X„;i^«,,Y-'^- poCets full of eastern notes, surrounding country. Other speculators were comneneS to buf'^^^^^ all Chicago, and the Eastern notes were worth more than specie, for exc^Ce wj^ in V5rnf ih iT""^" ^'""^ Company.' was another speculation." °' '""'*'-"'*"5je was in lavor of the Atlantic cities. And there ff '' ",.™"'' ""= «1""«le"' of Samuel SwartwoT," ZlS In iatlv J..ih he «a» the poorest of the poo,-his father kept a ° all pS L,e SZ i' ; l-er^i ;™»;i?t,«™; -^r T3.1ht%&t"7!' euda tenures and a " particular hostility" to Van Buren, by the VaSn^Sr ' d W^stons, were adverted to, and their - baronial prerogatives'' sneeVed at Mr. Van Buren is said to hav3 fanned the flame by anonymous essavs in the ?T.,H on papers, i„ which the title of the Livingstons to^heii Hor land! in Columht nty was vehemently attacked-and then to have appearS irSe lawlr .n^ S^efuf Sfv t'" --^^'/h-f Pontesting'fhe daimste liyadviTed of raanv of Z'^ ft T' I '^ ''■'''''^.^'^ '"'^'^ deserting them and producing the ruin SeSll f^u ^^' ^'^ ^^\'}'' ^^y, 1812, attained his object of a seat in the I onrmay not^' *'''^'"'''' '^"'^ ^"^"^"'=^- "^^^^ ^^V ^^ ^-- '" whole or in jim' i much ltht'^"SH the Northern Whig aiid the Hudson papers of that day throw ?om /R~,f ^ \^'J^^^ "'"'■^ ¥^y ^'^"""^^ i' in iinother publication. One extract PosT O^^fn^^^'^' '""^'^^ ^^1° ^"^° '^' New Yorkkrald, and the EvenS rest ot Oct. 21, 1818, may sufT, a here. Judge Van Ness presided at the Circuit * (-i 194 ANTI-RENT IN COLUMBIA — BISHOP AND KEMBLB. Court in Columbia county that month ; the District Attorney ( Canline), was absent; 50 or 60 persons were ejected from their farms for refusing to pay rent; the sheriff's posse was ordered out; Charles Truesdale was shot; D. Wilkinson wag sent four years to jail for shooting him ; John Re3molds, a magistrate, was heavily fined, and also imprisoned ; and anti-rentism very severely punished. Thomas P. Grosvenor appeared for the State as prosecutor. He had been turned out by the Council of Appointment, and Moses I. Cantine, Van Buren's brother-in-law, appointed as the district attorney for Columbia, Greene, and Rens- selaer counties, in Feb. 1811. Moses was looking for a seat in the Senate, needed popularity, got the seat, and a poor instrument for bankcraft he made. Van Buren then transferred him to the Argus. Mr. Van Buren, like Cantine, was absent at the trying moment when his clients most needed his aid— and of this we copy verbatim what we find in the Hudson Whig and the N. Y. Post, as follows : " It is the general received opinion, and lias ever been our own firm belief, that these people have been operated upon by olliers, whose situation in life, and whose duly to society, had demanded of them a very different Ime of conduct from what we believe to have lieeii pursued. That this opposition in the Manor has origmated in poliiic-j, it is our fullest belief; and that they consider certain leaclers of the democratic party in this city as ilieir patrons in this business, would appear manifest from a conversation that looli place during the sitting of the court ; but in order to relate which, we must first state another fact, to wii- that Mr. Van Buren, the Counsel for the IManor prisoners (and Senator elect from this district) when these trials came on, was taken very suddenly ill and did not come into court aeain until they were all over- The morning on which Mr. Van Buren was taken ill, Mr. Jeremiah Shaver.'lhe brother of John I. Shaver on being informed of it, said in the presence of five or six per.sons, that he told his brother months an that this would be the case, when it came to the pinch, that that dnil of devils would abandon thm On being inquired of who ha meant by that devil ofdmils, he replied, why, that fellow Van Bunn We mention this, not to insult Mr. Van Buren, or to accuse him if lie is not guilty ; but if the Manor people consider him as their patron in this business, and he really is such— it is proper that the public should have a riglit impression upon the subject. There were twenty six persons indicted at this court for neglecting to go out upon the po«se into f-e Manor after lieing summoned for that purpose, who were fined from 15 to 2,5 dollars each. There wera also .10 or 60 persons ejected at this court from their farms upon the Manor, for refusing to pay their rents." Report assigns to Mr. Van Buren the authorship of so much of Silas Wright's mammoth message as relates to the anti-renters. If so, let this chapter, and the recent trials at Hiidson, be taken in the same connection.* CHAPTER XXX. Bislwp and Kemhle's stock-jobbing. L. Hoyfs efforts to stay the Harlaem bill. Bartow absconds. John W. Edmonds. Ripening a combihation. (lambling Judges. Joseph D. Beers on ^ Stock transactions.' Lovett the Teller— how k closed his career. Charles L. Livingston, a gentle judge. A course of life, not very unlike that of Jesse Hoyt and John Van Buren's, sent John C. Kemble, a Senator of N. Y. to an early grave, two years ago, in the in- sane hospital. " He grew up," says Noah, " a proteg^ of Governor Marcy," and while Senator was also editor and owner of the Troy Budget, formerly conducted by Mr. Marcy. He took his seat in the Senate in Jan. 1834, and in a speech on the Harlaem railroad, the year following, said that it was begotten of a Jew, bom of a Jew, owned by Jews, &c. Noah replied by charging him with offering to sell himself to the U. S. Bank, and of being bought with his seat in the Senate by Van Buren's friends. This Kemble denied. " Does any man in his senses," said Noah, " suppose that Kemble and Mack [a hungry, plunder loving tool] could be elected Senators without an order from the Albany junto 1 " Mr. Kemble, and Isaac W. Bishop, another State Senator— both of them de- voted followers of Mr. Van Buren— were charged in March, 1836, with fraudulent *I had 'written thus far. when I met with the N. Y. Evening Post of Sept. 6, 1845, stating tliat the tri:il of Dr. Boughton, alia.f big-thunder, an anli-riinter, was proceeding before Judse J. W. Edmnndj at Hiidson- A. L. Jordan for the defsnce— John V. Bursn, AttorneyGen'l, for the people— when, in the morniii!.', in open court, a dispute arose between these lawyers, Jordan called V. Buren a liar, V. Biiren struck him, both \vf and fought with their fists, the judge_ ordered the sheriff to arrest them, acljoumed the court and trial 24 hoiirs, and sent the tvfo lawyers fur thai period lo the common jaii. The Tribune's correspondent, ffhs heard tha whole, says that in a dispute about the manner of examining a juror, Mr. V. B. said ' one at a time.' Mr. Jordan replied, ' there is but one ! ' Mr. V. B. (excited and positive) ' that's false.' To itiii Mr. Jordan answered, ' that is a lie,' or some such word. Judge Edmonds admitted that he also had ttim heard it, and the reader of Mr. V. B'i 18 letters will not doubt it. ' very common to' STOCK- JOBBING SENATORS—' RIPEN A COMBINATION.' 125 |„.g,e» .n 1835 for „x,e„di„g ,l,e to, ,„ 'co "preL S^Hall ^iSX;: Ev%5 ^isfl < if^'' .''"° r"'''^'""^^ «'^^-P ^"it«« Bartow from ¥ew York r 5e e'x ent ' ^' ^''' '''" '^^'' ^ 'T'^'iy '^^-^ it ^as not to a much the abscondmg officer's request, the $loSS^TerevliAVlLteU^^^ cial, though fidmonds had never had any ace™ there^ On til Q^I R f™™"" iy be WeS ' ''""■" """' ""' '"'' '"'»"' *e»-ll>e result t '.si-' !?■ ?■ Cireuit Court, on Jacob Barker's trial, N. Y. Eveuine Post Julv ■ilf i'hi" w.f "■ ■'h'P'' °- ?•""• "»"■« »f "^e fraternity "fSocSbte„ ied- W'"""e. Hoyt, and "the party" have been long intimateiyS" Wlieilicr llieam.iiint h- (ac- or 't.5i i- IT i^. i, ^ 'j'™ or four hundred ttuntsaiiit dollara ) Vm, i'lJ reiail dealer ' Tlial is all A^rnl', I..! " . "a^'neas, o„l> li.e diiTeiviice l^tween a wholesale such contracia hj paying or reMlv ne iL riiff-VinA i-,^^ . ?^™"'^« Is it not very common lo seiils ll'verycommanKuUinlStl?,!" ""'•""'""'""" '^"1 "" <««l= ncsiveJor delHeredl n I ! 12G A. H. LOVETT — SHALL BISHOP BE SENT ON TRIAL TO THE PEOPLE ? Seth Staples immediately said, and said truly— "I think it a villainous trans- action," We perceive one of its results in the Harlaem stock combination. Fraud caused the ruin of thousands — and Senators, the protectors of innocence, •were fore- most to prey on the unwary ! I do not see Edmonds's name in the testimony on the combination — but was he not the confederate of three of the chief conspirators, engaged with them heavily in stock-jobbing ! Are not the $5,000 check and the $20,000 Berkshire, curious transactions, all things considered — and of a man, too, of whom Mrs. Butler had said — " So far as pauperism is a qualification and recom- mendation tc the favor of a party, surely you will give in to " K? John W. Ed- monds, who when she wrote was Van Buren's decided leader in the Senate of New York. Mr. Alexander H. Lovett, the Teller of the Commercial Bank, did not run away with Bartow. He gave evidence, March 3, 1836, in Senate, that he paid Bartow's checks on the bank, knowing he had no funds, and falsely reported Bishop & Kemble's checks " AS THE BILLS OF OTHER BANKS," from April 1835 until September. I do not wonder that the long Island clerk put $ 50,000 of the Brooklyn Bank money in his breeches pocket. When he found that Lovett was retained by the Albany Commercial, what might he not expect to succeed in ! The Directors kept Lovett, and in a late Albany Evening Journal, we hear of his confession to Bartow's successor that when these villainiea of 1835 were transacted he had robbed the bank of $4000, and that he had kept on, cheating the ill-managed con- cern, till his robberies had got up to $40,000 ; and had forged daily statements in the Teller's books, speculated largely in the lottery, and was now ready to shoot himself, &c. Of course, he was held to bail, and being of the Hoyt, Swartwout, Price, fee, class, it is presumed (as Butler said of Fauntleroy) that New York justice will not reach him. His connections are too respectable to allow hiru to k treated like common vulgar persons. When he saw Charles L. Livingston, Hoyt's particular friend, and one of Swartwout's bail, willing to sit with Isaac W. Bishop in Senate — willing to own that corrupt senators may be sent back to receive the judgment of their electors— willing to vote that Bishop " had been guilty of moral "and official misconduct "—and unwilling to vote that he " is unworthy of a seat in this body, and is hereby expelled," who can wonder at his subsequent career! Kemble, like Jasper Ward, decently withdrew from the cares of legislation, but Senator Livingston thought that Bishop, though " guilty of moral and official mis- conduct," was a good enough judge in the courts of impeachments and errors, and in Senate, where judges are made and disallowed. If the history of our Bank legislation in 1805, with its blows, knock-downs, wholesale bribery, and foul atrocity, could be placed on the table of every man and woman in our State, it would be seen at a glance that the Chemical Bank, Lom- bard Co., Bishop and Kemble, Hoyt and other transactions of our day, are but clumsy repetitions of the stock-jobbing commencements forty years since. If I can but aid in rousing the manly virtue of the millions to insist on a real remedy, I will not have lived in vain. Livingston and his friends resolved to stand by their colleague. Bishop, and Young and Van Schaick resigned, with, a wish that they had had the power to mark the face of each member of the majority of that day, pro bono publico. It was probably as much owing to Bennett and Noah, especially the former, through an article written by himself, in Sept. 1835, that attention was drawn to this affair. Bennett and Noah had quarreled with Van Buren and his folio vers, their natural associates, and having made them feel their influence were reciived back into the Kinderkook juwg-fe, where we may as well leave them. The Commercial Bank lost $ 122,015 by Bartow's frauds ; besides $ 17,380 on false credits allowed Edmonds and others, which the directors expected to collect " by legal enforcement or otherwise." WATSON E, LAWRENCE — WALTER BOWNE. 127 CHAPTER XXXI. Custom House Builders, Walson E. Lawrence, Politics and Cement. 'Walter Bowiie and the 1th Ward Bank. Bowne's Salary as Commissioner. $872,500 of Custom House Deposites. Van Buren Cement. Bowne and Morgan on N. Y. Banking. His name enrolled with the other worthies of the Van Buren school, we will find, at the State Conventions, held somewhere beyond Little Falls, Mr. Watson E. Lawrence. Mr. Lawrence dealt in cement, but the cement which kept him, like Cornelius W., straight in the democratic path, was probably of a more adhe- sive character than that with which he supplied the Custom House of N. Y., a structure which cost $1,200,000, including the price of the ground on which it was built. Although Watson E. was not the lowest bidder among the burners of water lime he was (as Quackenboss would say) " with us in politics." "Gentlemen," said Thomas T. Woodruff, the builder, to the Commissioners, a man in whose skill they declare to the Secretary of the Treasury they have the fullest confidence — " Gentlemen," said he, Nov. 4, 1834, " The cement now using at the Custom House is a very poor article, and not fit to be used. I have made experiments with at least ten different bags — some better than others, but NONE of it is fit for use." The Commissioners, Walter Bowne, Elisha Tibbets, and Daniel Jackson, knew more about cement than Woodruff. Him they removed, but stuck fast to Lawrence, who was paid $20,000, nearly, for his cement, with some profit, let us hope, to himself and family. In the Legislature of N. Y., Assembly, Jan. 14, 1837, among the petitions presented was one from Watson E. Lawrence, Daniel Jackson, and others, for a charter to the Washington Bank, to be located in New York. The Contractor and Commissioner must have had money to lend. On the 4th of July, 1837, Lawrence was a leading signer of the letter sent by the Conservatives to Senator Tallmadge. In August he was.Chairman of the Corres- ponding Committee of that party in New York, and in pursuance of instructions from John L. Graham and George D. Strong wrote to Allen of the Madisonian for his principles. " Conservativ 3 " was the answer, on which Watson E. and his friends warmly recommended x\e Madisonian to all good conservatives. Time works wonders. Watson E. began to see that power having passed to M. Van Buren, Jesse Hoyt & Co., they had veered round for the present to the hard money, anti-monopoly, loco foco side. Accordingly on the 26th Sept., at a 15th ward meeting to choose delegates, &c., at which Watson E. was one chosen, Jesse Hoyt being president, Barnabas Bates [Custom House,] and E. G. Sweet [Custom House,] passed resolutions, approving of " The Message " in toto, and resolving " that the monopoly conservatives cannot delude nor deceive the democracy of this ward" — that Bank and State must be disunited — that the vast emissions of paper by state chartered banks had done mischief— and that hard dollars must be paid for revenue. Mr, Watson E. Lawrence is a fair specimen of Van Burenism. Like O'Gimlet's finger post, he is ready to be turned round any way, [provided he can continue contractor for Custom House cement.] Walter Bowne, says Coleman of the Evening Post, was originally a federalist, but afterwards a director of the Manhattan Co. He was on the Grand Jury, in 1805, when it thwarted the corrupt legislature of that year, and would not find a bill against Cheetham for libel in exposing the bank bribery to which Senate and Assembly had succumbed. In 1816 he was elected to the Senate of New York, where he unfortunately fell into the toils of Van Buren and Butler, and joined the Regency. The Post says he was dressed in a suit of green, and looked as if he would speak, but didn't. lio looks so wise, so grave, so wondrous grim, His very aliadow seoms afraid of him. After the Chemical Bank knavery had been exposed he voted to preserve the charter, and when Clinton's wisdom and patriotism had almost completed the Erie 1S6 W. BOWNE — 7th ward BANK — TAMMANY ADDRESS. Canal, Bowne voted to expel him from the Canal Board. He fathered Butler's re port ajjainst nominations by the people, and was one of 17 yenators who prevented the election of president poing to the people, in 1824. Of course he was for Craw ford, and Anti-Jackson, thoupfh when the latter got power, no meaner prayer reached him for a share of the public plunder in the shape of deposites, than that sisjned, l(i Dec. 1833, by Walter Bowne, president 7th Ward Bank, and by W. S. Coo, Henry O^den, J. A. Whitinfr, G. Hopkins, &c., directors. " We, &c.i J'rumds of the administration, and of the revered chief at the head of the govemmeni do solicit a portion of the fiscal patronage of the if. S. Treasury, for the 7th Ward Bank." They got it, too. The 7th Ward Bank got a legislative charter in 1832, Walter Bowne, President — and when the new Custom House was to be built. Congress voted mon«y, pro. vided for commissioners, but prescribed not the duties. Walter Bowne was mads a commissioner, and disbursing agent. Van Buren's influence secured to his bank the job of receiving from thd treasury and paying out in its notes the money for the Custom House. From Feb. 1831 to Dec. 1840, $872,500 passed through the 7th Ward Bank — and besides the compensation to Ringgold, Jackson, Tibbets, and the other commissioners, Bowne had $8 per day, Sundays and week days, winter and summer — in all, from $ 16,000 to $20,000 were paid him by government for his occasional attendance, at the erection of this heavy, clumsy, inconvenient job. ' Paid him' did I say ? That's wrong. He took it. Walter Bowne, as Com' , waiting for no other Com'rs to sit on his individual bills, for form's sake, if not for decency, audited them himself, receipted his own bills, handed his voucher to himself, approved of it, and gave himself, as Com'r, a check on his own bank, where the cash lay, which his clerk entered at the Custom House, and his teller (R, S, Bowne— all in one family) paid at the bank. Friend Woodbury took care that the bank should, like Sam and " Jessika," be well provided with " the fiscal patron- age" it had so greedily craved. In Dec. 1834, it had $26,000 of a balance on hand— $120,000 in Jan. 1836— in July $90,000— and on 3d Sept. over $120,. 000. Of course, a job was intended, for, of $70,000 drawn from the treasury in Feb. 1834, $ 26,000 remained in Dec, and $ 1 1 ,000 next year in March ! When $30,000 lay in bank, Sept. 3, 1836, $ 100,000 more were drawn for by Walter and deposited — and of this, $30,000 to $60,000 were on hand, or lent to specula- tors with whom there was the right understanding, till July 1837. When this wretched concern refused to pay specie for its bills or other debts in May 1837, it had of Custom House building cash, $60,000, and got $50,000 more in July thereafter ! Corrupt, greedy, dishonestly ambitious men stuck to Van Buren, be- cause they saw, that, let public prosperity sink or swim, he would see that his legion of followers had a surfeit of public plunder. Don't suppose that on these de- posites a cent of interest was paid.* In Nov. 1834, Geo. D. Strong wrote the Com'rs, desiring that a part of the Custom House building money might be left for safe keeping at his bank, the Commercial. Bowne knew better. Not one dollar ! * The reader may tliinic, perhaps, that I liave spoken with too little respect of such a venerable and honor ed citizen as Mr. Bowne— hut is it so? Thanic heaven, I am free of the suspicion of malice, for in no form had I at any lime any dealings with him. Let the above sketch be considered, however, and then addlhe fact that the Tammany Hall annual address, previous to tlie Nov. elections of 1838, Messrs. Bow-ne and John I. Morgan lent such sentiments .as are quoted below, the sanction of their names and presence as Vice Presidents at the meeting which adopted them, Wm. M. Price being chief speaker (previous to his Gallic Hegira and abdication.) " We consider privileged fraud and privileged credit as synonymous terms expres.sing one identical evil. . . . The Bank has committed a privileged fraud in exacting interest upon its own debi?, and in thus render ing the creditor a debtor That the 9as banking companies should be content with this ubiquitous, boundless, absolute, and irresponsible power of fraud, without combining to usurp the legislative and execu- tive powers of the general government, would seem to bo but a reasonable request By securing the payment and disbursement of the national revenue in the republican coin, we keep a still greater amount of the true standard of value in the country, and thus belter enable those fraudulent institutions, the banlis.to redeem their promises than they could if let to the selfdestructiveness of their own operations." Mr. Bowne presided where it was in plain terms resolved, that his 7th Ward Bank was a " dangerous and fraudulent" concern— its notes a cheat— and the banks of the Union, as conducted by such as he, swindlinj institutions. He approved of the whole, and sent it forth in the Post with his name altached. Wh»te was his self respect in this? What did he not admit to his own shame? If the above assertions were true, why v.'.i.". Pr.irx P_ihir.son hnnj, and ths killing .-f Suydam, the bank president, adjud:;cd muitier • " organiied banking is a conspiracy against American liberty and property, and Mr. Bowne says it ia so, what was the use of the trials of Barker, Hyatt and tlie Lamberts in 1826-7 ? They were but parts of a »ys' tein, ana yet made scape goats. hoyt's embezzlements. 129 Custom H0U8B minutes, Buildinfi: Com'rs office, Au?. 0, 1838.—" Present Wal- ter Howne. Esq. — OrdereH [t>y Bowne] that the following checks be drawn [on Dnwne'shaiik.l viz : Ftir Walter Howne [that's me, too!] Services from l'-; of Jan. to 1st Auff. $ 1090. And " Services," 1 Mar. '35 to 15 Ap'l. '37, 066 days, at $8, f 5328. Dec. 15, 1810. " Services," 441 days, at $8— $3528. Delight- ful simplicity I What did they j>ive him as bank president' How much slock did he tret to make 15 per ct. out of at commencement? What sum was he to draw out of the funds to share wiih, or did he share? UprigfU, consistent, demo- cratic Walter Bowne ! Walter was nephew to Robert Bowne, who kept his store in Queen street, New York, nearly 60 years ago. His family were Quakers — he is, therefore, it is pre- siiiied, a Hickory Quaker, like C. W. Lawrence. In 1828 ho was appointed Mayor of New York, and held the office five years. His daughter is the wife of John W. Lawrence of Flushing, and his son Nathan is reported to be very rich. Mr. Bowne is not too generous. It required two thirds of the Senate of N. Y. in Feb. 1824, to pass a bill, to give public relief to many deserving persons whose priiperty was burnt and destroyed last war — and the Assembly had passed such a bill. Twenty-two Senators said Yea when it came to them— Walter Bowne and I wo others, " Nay." Walter was a delegate to the bucktail convention at Herkimer, in 1828, which nominated Van Buren as Governor. I wish the people would look as steadily to I the great interests of the many as this old man does to the worldly gains of " Mr. Walter Bowne." CHAPTER XXXn. i Rtvtnue returns at N. Y. Horjt^s Embezzlements. Daring attempt to defraud the U. S. out of S 63 ,000. Ogdm and Phillips's concealment of Swartwout's conduct. Millions of defalcations not yet looked into. Why should we seek to trace them f Tk Naval office, by Coe and Throop, a lose deception, Fleming's evidence. .\fter all the attention which, with the information before me, I could give the quesiiiin, I have come to the conclusion that there are powerful reasons for further enquiry whether Mr. Hoyt's embezzlement of the public revenue has been limited to $220,000, and upward ; whether he, at same time receiving an income of over $40,000 a year frora his office, did not connive at yet greater errors? Jesse Hoyt collected in 1839, from $47,113,697 worth of goods subject to vari- ous rates of duty, $14,042,408. In 1840, he only collected $6,990,643 on S of dutiable imports, which shows a falling off in duties at New York alone, of $7,651,765, or far more than one half the amount received the year Jbefore. My opinion, afier much consideration given to the subject, and for more jreasons than I shall state here, is, that this is a false statement of the real revenue [of 1840, and perhaps, in a lesser degree, of 1839. The No. of entries in Sept. 11840, was 3,930— in 1839 they were 3,753. I In 1827, the importations at N. Y. were, value, $41,441,000. In 1839, I $97,078,000. In 1840, $56,846,000. Mr. Swartwout's cashier, was Mr. Henry Ogden, a shrewd, cunning, good- Ihiniored, active, business man, the brother of a late Attorney General of Canada— Ihis assistant was Noah's famous proteg^, Joshua Phillips. Between them is 600,000 received for bonds, remain unaccounted for at Washington — no one jthere knows that it was paid at New York— the cashiers at New York got the linoiiey, but what next became of it? Mr. Swartwout was a keen, sharp, crafty jpolitician — matched Van Buren in his influence with Jackson, and was both scholar land accountant. Was he, too, ignorant as to this $600,000, and these defective Mwns? I doubt it. Let us look back at Mr. Hoyt. .liter three yeais, or thereabouts, of office, he was about to leave it, and as he "ell knew, a heavy defaulter. His previous career, was from early insolvency to peent stockjobbing, baseless speculation, unprincipled politics, and great personal 17 130 THROOP, COE, AND THE NAVAL OFFICE, A DECEPTION. embarrMsmont — his companionii were men of his brother's and Mr. Butler's amu nieiit morals — and the whijis oominp: Into power. The morohant pays the duties on his jfoods to the Cashier, who keeps an entry oi I account of thorn — before that, a duplicate of that entry must have been lodged m\[ the Naval Officer as a check upon the Collector's returns of monies received for I (Bfovernment. Hetween January 6th, and February Slh, 1841, hundreds of thousands ofdollarn were paid in duties to Mr. Tailman J. Waters. Ho entered each sum in his bonk — accounted daily (as he says) to Mr. Hoyl for the monc^ —laid each entry in Im drawer, to be filed with the others bclonfrinf; to each ship — and between these dayj some twenty or thirty of these entries were stolen — one this day, perhaps twoiU next, so as to avoid suspicion — the lowest entry stolen, showed duties paid $732- the biRhest $5,057. In ail, vouchers for $63,039 wore taken in 33 days-Mr. Hoyl had received the money paid on these entries — and had it not been that when I tho quarterly accounts went to WashiiiRton, a Whig Secretary, " a new broom,' looked sharper into the return, as made up from the impost book, than easy Mr Woodbury might have done — for the thief who stole the vouchers from the cashieu office, proceeded regularly to the Naval Office, day by day, and carried off the du- plicates— Jesse would have been $63,039 richer by the "operation." But hii weekly accounts, and quarterly return, as made by himself and clerks, d%ffered-n enquiry wns set on foot, and the attempt to rob the treasury of these $63,000, waH at length discovered. Had it succeeded it would have benefited no one but Hoyt—k would have cleared $63,039, for he had the cash, and not a cent of it had been | charged to him on the books of the government. It was a case, the very counter- part of the $609,525 received on bonds, except that in it the lazy financiers all Washington might have detected the rascals by comparing the bonds payable wiib the monies sent for bonds paid, and on seeing what bonds were long past due and unpaid, and the names of the merchants apparently delinquent, further enquiry I would have made all clear. But Mr. Woodbury would not see — nor would Wolf the Comptroller— nor the Solicitor of the Treasury— nor worthy Mr. Ogdenilie Cashier — nor Phillips his immaculate deputy — and the Auditor did not see it. Sj we have checks on error and fraud, multiplied and dovetailed, overpaid and useles!, To cap tho climax, Mr. Swartwout makes oath that he never got the money- Phillips, with like piety, swears that Swartwout did get it. One thing is clear, b| did not go into the United States Treasury, to be borrowed by Van Buren, Wright, and Butler, as tho American Land Company, and used to buy Western land«al| government prices, which the people might have had afterwards at 500 per cent profit on the outlay ! The evidences in document No. 212, H. of R.,2d Sess. 27th Congress, sho»| very conclusively that the merchants' bonds were paid at the Cashier's office— i neither could he (Ogden) nor his assistant show any receipts for the repayment to I Swartwout. Now, if $609,525 of money received on bonds could disappear from the cashier's office, is it likely that the cash received on entries of dutiable goods would not also disappear, by the hundred thousand dollars, or the million? Look at Fleming s evidence before the Commissioners. He admits that tii) | office (the auditor's) could be no check, unless the entry was placed on file, whei paid to the cashier— and as to the Naval Office, (kept by Coe, Throop, &c.) i was a base fraud on community, as managed — keeping up a battalion of fat, wel fed clerks, who were a pretended check on the collector — but no real check. The law reg-ulating the Naval Office is excellent, but, like every thing else, it is per- 1 verted by a pack of rascals, who if they don't get the penitentiary here, will be| sure of it hereafter. That th6 Naval Office should check frauds and errors, says the N. Y. Evenin? Pbfet, is unflonibtedly true, but heretofore the business has been so managed [hj •Throop, Coe, H6yt, Swartwout & Co.] "as to render this department wholly * \a Oov'r VanBuren'sletMr to J. Hovl, Feb. 8, 1829. (p. 45.) he admits that a doctor ' savsd usatthij Herltimer Convention' by getting Enos T. Throop, an attorney, of Cayuga, nominated as Lt. Gov'r. >.ij I oust^in^' Col. Pitcher, a worthy, upriaht, independent farmer, whom Root had proposed, and who hadyMsJ "m (;oiigro«. ill isiC, for the Uniteii States iSani? Charier, and been appointed by the Rcgcuejr = •:j""-| rndga in 1823. On the 12th of March, 1829, Mr. Van Buren abdicated, and Throop became (ile lacWI Governor of N. Y. State. In his message, Mr. V. B. said, " If ample talents, and a sound discriniinaiiri!! judgment— if integrity and singleness of'purpose, and truly republican principles, furnish any just grouna I for expecting a safe administration o' the government, that expectation, I am persuaded, may, in tliep»l Mat uuUuice, be fu!!/ indulged." Throop pretended to desire the punishmenl «f the men who made »nt I MILLIONS OF CUSTOM HOUSE PLUNDER YET UNDISCOVERED. 131 dependont on the other." " It wa» tho practice of the Naval Office, previout to tlie a|)pi>iiitinent of Mr. Towlo, to certify all the accounts of the Collector, even btfl'iire tlioy had received the Bignature of that oIFicer himself. Tliin was neitlier a counier-sif^iiature, as it was intended to be, nor a check upon any errors in tho accounts, although it passed with others as a voucher of their correctness." " In the case of purinils for tho uniadintj and delivery of goods, it was likewise the practice to 8i),(n them in the Naval Olhce firertoua to the .itf(nature of the Collector, and tlien it was done without any actual knowled^^e whether the duties had lieen paid or secured to be paid In a similar manner the business haa been done with regard to drawbacks or debentures." Now It was honorable in the Evening Post to expose this most infamous conduct of its political friends — but why did it delay the exposure till Mr. Tyler's commis- sion had been printed ? Was there no fit time, from 1W20, till Mr. (Jurtjs, a politi- cil opponent, was in office in 1814 ! Look at tho Naval Officer's oath, and say whether the Naval Officer's check only became necessary when Towle, the nomine* of tho retail rum-shop called Tammany Hall, was placed alongside of the whig, E. Curtis ? 'I'he salaries of the Naval Officer and his aids, and their other expenses, fees, &c., amount to more than $60,000 a year. Has the whole concern only been a blind to enable knaves to plunder with more impunity from ISSU to 1841 ? If not— what else v. vs it ? The law of Congress of 1791) is good ; and by th» Comptroller's circular of 1821 the Naval Officer is required to keep corresponding accounts with the Collector, to enable him, from his own books, to certify to the accuracy of the Collector's accounts. What avail good laws while bad men con- spire to render them unavailing for the general welfare f The manner of Fleming, the Auditor's evidence in 1841, implies a seeming doubt of the accuracy of the books of these Custom House Cashiers — and with reason. Waters might be honest, but what can be said for his assistant, Bleecker? If Waters was absent did not Bleecker do the businessi He, the infurmer-general toHoyt; the standing witness, at N. Y., Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia; who did not tell Swartwout of the villainy he professes to have known, because " he had no confidence in him !" Bleecker's own statpment, pages 36 and 37 of Hoyt's " Letters," show him to have been long acquainted with wholesale knavery by importers — yet he neither informed the treasury, the district attorney, the col. lector, nor the naval officer, but waited till Hoyt appeared, and then volunteered u informer-general — prosecuted Hoyt for his share of the plunder, was then dismissed, and relinquished the spoils, out of " the Yorkshiremen," to recover them as Hoyt's second cashier ! Is there not the strongest reason for believing that entries were made, the money paid, and the entries cancelled, by some of the worthies described in this chapter, to the amount of millions, between 1829 and 1841 ? Look at the above facts — at the characters of the men — at their opinions of one another — at the ease with which 1000 entries out of 20,000 made in a year could ha^e been put on the fire— and at the confusion and shameful disorder in which the records of the Cus- tnm House were purposely kept — the important papers that were and continue to be missing — and doubt, if you can, that millions on millions of dollars paid by the merchants have been in this way embezzled! If $63,039 were very adroitly cancelled as credits in 33 days of the last quarter of Hoyt's incumbency, and the theft only discovered through the change of officers at Washington, who can sup- pose that that was the only theft in the previous twelve years, under the indulgent supervision of Woodbury, Wolf, &c. ? It is true, Mr. Duane was the man to put down such practices, had they existed in 1833 — but he was got rid of— and "ilh Morran, hut in hi3 acts he protected them. Thmiph a mere tool in Van Buren'a hands, and that toinnenf the meanest, tho Rafety Fund system and the Regency carried him into George Olintnn'n seat MGovernnr. I thinic he was next appointed to an oflice in the State Prison at Auburn, then to the Naval Oiiice at New Yoric, where he shamefully neglected his duly, and lastly, sent by Van Buren to N.iples, li minister. This is one of ttiose expensive lollies which glitter in the eyes of corrupt tools of power, and make ibein the more eagnr to prostitute their talents in a dishoneat cause. Throop was a reirular si'clt jobber— got 810,000 in'Cayuga Bank stock and .816,000 in Phoenix, yielding nearly »I,000 profit at lif^ estimate, beside other slocks. George B. Throop had other JlO.OOO of the Cavuga Bank stock, ajw Nath'l Garrow, the U. S. Marshal, i»10.00d. Georue and Nath'l were Com'rs to distfilnite it. and ihey ?-fci'ncir brotiier-lii-lttw, Ihe Keii'r in Cimncery, ciO,000, Hunl^oinery Hunt, wiiose daugiiier one oftiieui ™ '"arned, »10,000, and their friend S. Beardsley $10,000, and I understand not a penny was paid on this stock! They managed the job so as to control the bank, Qeorg« B. Throop became ca»hier, and the direc- wn borrowed out much more than th»y hid p»id in. 132 MR. VAN BUREN's OATH AND PRACTICE UNDER IT. even Jonathan Thompson, a Tammany Hall democrat, removed, he not falling into •' the hne of safe precedents" as a public pickpocket, alias defaulter. It may be asked — Could additional embezzlements be discovered now?* I reply— Cui bono ? There is no way to punish wiiolesale roifues in this country. And even if you were to recover millions, they would be squandered on army and navy officers who have nobody to fight with, distributed by Vice President Dallas among needy senators, to pay the expense of journeys they never went, deposited in banks as a speculation fund for their directors, to 'trap merchants with, or wasted on some Indian warfare to be got up in Texas, to yield patronage to the executive. Who can have forgotten the splendid bequest of Mr. Smilhson, an Englishman, in aid of Education in America 1 The $500,000 arrived at Washington. What became of it ! A bankrupt corporation in Arkansas, called the Heal Estate Bank, sold Arkan- sas State Bonds to Levi Woodbury for the $500,000. Senator Sevier and Gen'l Williamson were the Commissioners for the Bank — they charged $14,000 each for expenses and services — paid $5000 to a broker at Washington to do the busi- ness, and lent $8500 to persons in New York ! These greedy leeches were instruments of Van Buren — but if Smithson had known the characters he was trusting, I guess he would have put one clause more in his will. His gold was sadly reduced before it reached the Real Estate Bank — and when a legislative committee examined the bank vaults, only $ 15,000 were found in specie. The debts due it were base and worthless ! Listen to the Globe ! ICP" The millions lavished on Gales and Seaton for useless printing and docu- mentary lumber to keep up their polluted and polluting concern, and to make good the terms of the coalition with the conservatives in furnishing support for their double-faced journal — the half million required to complete the distribution job of Clarke and Force — the annual half million wasted on out of the way light-houses, cheating the mariner like so many will-o-the- wisps along coasts — the millions sunk in throwing stones in rivers and removing sand or mud from hopeless harbors, makinj holes, to be filled up again by the action of the tide, and the natural currents— all these, and hundreds of other sources of wasteful and useless expenditures, we traced" to Martin Van Buren, it might have added. What said Mr. Van Buren's oath? That he would be faithful to the Constitution — and what does in enjoin! Speaking of bills, no matter for what purpose — it says, of every bill, " If he ap- prove he shall sign it." Did he then approve, as his signature attests? Undoubt- * I think, however, that much information could be had ar to other embezzlements if the bad men wb have profited by them were ousted. When a ship arrives from abroad she produces a manifest, or detailed Watemenl of her cargo. The Inspector's return shews wliat part went to the owners, and what to the public Blore. for examination, or .storage. The Surveyor's assLstanl compares this return with the receipts and permits. It is .also compared with the entries and manifest— and as the manifest itself might he compared with the cockets, in the case of British vessels, there could be no knavery, unless knaves sat on honest men's stools. Why should a deputy collector siin an entry without making a minute of it in aclieck book? Why >s to direct it lobe n-'finided. No tribunal in llieciuniry, perhaps m the worhl, is more lardy, more uncertain, mors inililfereiil to ihe just expeciaiions and rights of private suitors than the Consress of the United Slates." '■ i\Ir. Hoyt has been from an early period a warm and intimate friend of Mr. Van Buren, and it must nave cost ihe Pre^^ident an effort of more than his usual firmness to displace him." ^ Just two years before this. Horace Greeley, in his Weekly Whi? of March 2, 1839, had recapitulated the irivciiiu-aiin:} conimiiue's siateiiie.it aiidinii— " In short, etery lUiilij appears lo be in liuin fur another explosion, whenever the collector shall deem It r"ore profitable and safe to lake steamship than to continue In Ihe Custom House." la it possible that IMr. Van Buren ^ould have per3uade>l rational beings ihatHoyt'i career was a separation of bank ud ttate ) Too nuDV iMliered it— but fortunately not enougb to reoe^r M term of the preildencr. 131 hoyt's incomk and favoritism — o. A. wasson's cahts. oven if ho dons not plunder and jnllapc our inurchaiils b. 11 and 21, 1840, to he, by him, that day placeil at the credit of the frovornment, in his accounts. Did he do it ' No. lie pocketed the money, $ UKOii\)—ipiTvlatc(l oil itforaycar, and merely cliarired himself with it for form's sake, on the 20th of Feb. 1811, just to enahle the! jroverninent to state more correctly the sum total of his embezzle- ments ! "Why did yon do it?" said one. "1 forgot it," quoth Jesse. The interest of this and other sums kept by him, when the treasury ought to have had 'em. I value at $ 10,000 a year, at the usual rate of interest. Besides the use of th(! $ 10,02!), ho charged the U. S. .$2,000 for storing the goods, auctioned, tnthe U. S. Starrs. 1 have heard tho.fcrx for three years estimated at $35,02.'). Here was $10,000 to him, ill that time, from that source. One may judge what a besom or scourge Iloyt was, where ho tells us in his letters, p. l.'J.'J, that the fines, forfeits, and pen- alties paid by him to the treasury in less than three years eame to $01,000— while in the previous 20 years thev had only amounted to $ 140,000. Fleming says that lloyt had $29,373 as his nett share of this sort of plunder— $ 10,000 a year that was— and the same went to Coe and Craig, each, yearly, making their places worth $ 16,000 to $ 18,000 per annum— though that is nuchr the reality. Iloyt was never satisfied. He told Woodbury that integrity must be better paid. He served 9 months in 1838, and actually contended for the whole year's pay! " Can you be honest, Mungo?" says one of Sheridan's heroes to his black servant. " What you give me, massa!" replied the negro. No man has done more to injure Van Duren permanently, than Jesse Hoyt. Compare w hat follows with Mr. Hoyt's conduct to the foreign houses whose goods were seized : George H. Ives, of the firm of Labron & Ives, was a standing witnsss for Hoyt in seizure cases. Mr. Louusberry swore that Cairns of the woollens loft, would pass Ives's invoices as fairly charged, though rated 10 to 15 per cent, under value — while to other houses who gave fair invoices of same kind of goods he would raise the price 10 or 15 per cent. It is conduct like this that embarrasses the honest dealer. On tme occasion Cairns raised the invoice price of a lot of woollens 20 to 25 per cent., not knowing the owner. Mr. Ives arrived, said the goods were his— they talked privately, and the invoice was at once reduced to its old rate. On one occasion a lot of Ives's woollens were measured. There were 3900 varda more than was entered — the fraud was clear. Let him have his goods, said lloyt. To a foreign merchant he would at once have replied — " I seize your goods, ^ir. for the fraud." There were 13 bales and 390 pieces — every piece was 10 yards longer than stated. The reader will remember George Shonrt, whom Judge Ulshoeffer's brother re- commended for promotion from the cartage of the Evening Post to that of the Cus- tom House. He got the place, but it was believed that his cart was Hoyt's, subrosa.^ Be tiiis as it may, G. A. Wasson charged for cartage in three years, $4 1, 68b", and only two privileged carts, at 30 to 50 cents each package, or $ 3 to $ 10 per load ! He' charged for" labor in the public stores $51,659— and he made outhisbilli, L. WOODBUEY — SWARTWOUT^S ACCOOKTS. 135 lousea whose " paid ior cartape, $ " "paid for labor $ ," gave no particulars— touched liis $3000 a month as paymaater, and of that kept the larger share as cartman. We can judge of the infamously corrupt character of the treasury office in those days wlieii Ijiiis liko this for nearly $ 100,000 were taken without the agent pro- ducing a single voucher— and the charges, too, 80 enormous] No matter ! Levi Woodbury & Co. did not stand on trifles with a friend. Wasson was one of lloyt's " battalion of testimony" — was made a deputy collector— would nett $2000 besides, for going from town to town to swear — abstracted goods from the public stores for his own use— and, though professedly poor at first, as an inspec- tor—he suddenly " built several splendid edifices in New York, and set up his car- riage for comfort and convenience." Nor is this to be wondered at. The two carts above had made a profit of $35,000, or over $ 10,000 a year. One effect of the government enquiry under President Tyler was the dismissal of Wasson and Cairns. The former was urged on Swartwout by one of his sureties, 08 follows : J. Oakley to S. Swartwout, 8 Cedar St, "April 28, 1830. Dear Sir. — There is a very deserving man by the name of George A. Wasson a measurer attached to the public store. I do not know that he would, under any circumstances, be removed, as I understand he has been a Jackson-man and was appointed through the influence of Mr. Baldwin of Pitts- burgh, who is his friend. As it is a matter of great importance to him, however, he has requested me to speak to you on the subject. I wish you would have the goodness, if his removal is contemplated, to let me see you. Yours truly, J. OAKLEY. P. S. Permit me to suggest, by way of manifesting my regard for your com- fort, that you had better make the removals and appointments which you contem- plate, at once. If you do not, there will not be as much of you left in a few days as there was of the Kilkenny Cats." I think there can be be no doubt but that Mr. Woodbury's office knew that Swartwout was a heavy defaulter long before he left for Paris— but it seemed to be an object with him to remain quiet till after the elections of Nov. 1838, Mr. Hoyt and his friends could not have remained ignorant of the real state of Swartwout's affairs after June, 1838, the end of his (iloyt's) first quarter. They must have seen that Swartwout was $846,754 behind, for cash paid him on bonds. Mr, Ogden, Swartwout's cashier, was Hoyt's cashier till March, 1830- he knew the whole ; and yet Gilpin the Solicitor was not sent to New York till Nov, 1838, If the department received the accounts required by law, Mr. Woodbury must have known of a defalcation, even in 1837— but as he was lenient to ether men who had embezzled large sums, hut professed to be active partisans, perhaps it was his wish to be so with Swartwout and his friends. When Mr, Swartwout declined to send his last quarter's account to Washington in April, 1838, why did Woodbury not send an officer to get it till November \ This shows a corrupt and willful omission of duty on his part, and Wolf the Comptroller is not less culpable. Considering Woodbury's character as a statesman this fact ought never to be forgotten. Gilpin, in Nov. tells Woodbury that the accounts had not been furnished because Swart- wout wished them to be withheld till he would return from Paris ! Was this a sufficient reason for Woodbury's waiting till Nov. for the quarterly return due in April from the principal revenue office in the Union ? Swartwout, Ogden, and Fleming were together in this business. On July 19, 1837, Jesse Miller, 1st audi- tor, Washington, writes Swartwout—" Sir : Your accounts of Customs and official emoluments for the first quarter of 1837 are received." Then the words in italics are crossed out, and a note added : — " The above do not include abstracts of bonds taken and bonds paid," It would thus seem that they were too lazy and indolent at Washington to compel the return from New York of those statements which, had they wished it, would have at any moment, exposed the chief item of S's de- linquency. This letter referred to a return a year ahead of Swartwout's last and yet Fleming was retained also ! Look at the private connection of the parties, with the swindlers of 1826, the insolvents of 1837, the stockjobbers, landjobbers, and Martin Van Buren their comrade, and you are answered. When Mr. Ogden, 136 HENRY OGDEN — SECRETARY WOODBURY's CONDUCT. in Nov. 1838, told Gilpin of his conversation with Swartwout before he sailed to France in August previous, and that he then well knew of the monies embezzled are we to suppose that Hoyt would have kept him (Opden) longer in the cashier's Elace, had he concealed the shameful affair from liim till then ! Mr. Ogden had ept office under Swartwout for many years, and admits that he knew ihai the Collector began to embezzle the public money nine months after he was appointed and use it in his private speculations, and that he had often told him so, as hud Fhijl lips. What was Mr. Ogden 's oath as an officer, and his obligation as a citizen' Was it to let the robbery reach 42 tons of solid silver, keep his salary and office and hold his tongue? Did he do this ? If he did not, but acted honestly, what are we to say of the president and treasury department, who knew of and yet concealed Buch wholesale villainy ? And if he did, why did th \ \' Nisti.tn Tto,,;J r>r,V.^l.; P«"^'""e". and mock officers swept out ! rivedat. Mr' Van B^urerMr Beuum, an'T o he" "4rrfcZ'mitue%TtVe"&,^r l" °^ ''''!'' '> ""^ -'"=« "• ten Speakins of its officers, Mr. Benton thensaid ■ '^°"'"""^* ""^tha Senate to enquire into such mat- , tremeiiclous in an election : and that they will Iwaranmat^^^^^ ?^ ""* spirit, must be lion. Poicer over a man's suoporl hi always been 1^^^ id and Llmi*^ K'^" '°° P'"'" '" "«"'' 'iemoiialra- Pre^iileiit has ' power' over the ' siipwi^ of allVhiU ftffl.^^. ^i k ^ '" ^ ? '"""'' °^«'' his mil. Ths I>'rt' cf debtor merchmls to the am m^i of ten m Mions^- yoTt«™ n..^*^ ^*'" ''^T^ ' !»"'«'■' "^er the ' suf^ I ;.™o ,, the entire patronage of the Ex^c^Vi;et^5„an7,.-„r«^?;;^^^^^^^^^^ ' t'w.;f nf """ "" TV'"' '""' ^'"'^ """ ^'^^ """' '" '"' *">"« for this time at lea,t. « le or m,ire of its otikers robbed it of more tlian half its ca ^1h1 Th„ .to. "^ t >"re-and soon after this t TX-. or four of the dire.ors knew this-an^t-ri^ed''^ ^TL V:L^:\r^'^. B^ r/afS^Zd 138 A TRIUMPH OF LAW OVEE EQUITY. judges and district attorneys are, or formerly were, made. We have, first, Mr. L, Hoyi's letter describing his satisfaction at a legal triumph over equity in the Court of Errors. Then we have Mr. Livingston's account of a Chancellor about to be sold out by the sheriff! Next, an evidence of Mr. Butler's/ee/in^5 towards Judges Spencer and Woodworth — followed by two characteristic extracts from letters by Judge Ulshoeffer, (who did not want to be a first county judge,) about judge making — and lastly, a couple of sententious epistles from a lady — Mrs. B. F. Butler— to her dear friend Mr. Jesse Hoyt, in which she asks his aid to help Judge Suther- land down from the supreme court bench, (if he had not already left it,) and up to a $ 30,000 salary, "on account of his peculiarly unpleasant situation in a pecu- niary point of view " — admits Judge Edmonds' claims, " so far as pauperism is a qualification " — mentions Price, and her good man's guoss about him — admits her- self to be an old federalist — and copp- that he " would yet see brighter day '^•^ssp uuuci his " misfortunes," hoping Extract from a letter — Lorenzo Hoyt .;,s brother Tesse, [both of them Albanv lawyers] dated Albany, Dec. 24, 1823 — " McDonald's cause is decided in his favor, and for which I think he may thank Chief Justice Savage. Sutherland aid Woodworth, together with 11 Senators, were dead against him. I CONSIDER IT A TRIUMPH OF THE LAW OVER EQUITY AND GOOD CON- SCIENCE. I must say I had but very slight hopes before the argument, but after the cause was argued, and the facts so ably and correctly laid open to the Senate, I thought McDonald's prospects brightened. Messrs. Van Vechten and Henry, who argued the cause on the other side, were sadly disappointed at the | result. From the circu7nstances of Mr. Butler'' s being engaged as Counsel, my fed- tngs were much enlisted in McDonald' s favor , and I felt very much interested in the j result." Edward Livingston to Jesse Hoyt. [Extract.] Albany, post mark. May H, " I have abandoned all idea of settling at Albany. The Chancellor has been so | much perplexed harrassed of late that he this day permits his furniture to be s at Sheriff's sale* and bought in. This will be my apology to you for this shon I letter." [The date is not given, but it must have been between 1821 and '27. He adds that] " Seymour it is supposed is elected in the Western District. — Make me one of the Committee in the first ward [of N. Y ] for nominating. Tell Hatch to | attend to it." Mr. B. F. Butler to Mr. Jesse Hoyt, 40 Wall st. New York, Oct. 12, 1820. Dear Sir, — I am happy to hear of your success — and hope it may continue- $ 50 and $ 100 fees are not very plenty in this part of the country, at least noi I with young lawyers. Our circuit still continues. Judge Woodworth, in person and in business — " Like a wounded snake, drags his slow length along." He 1 fom'ra, from the public, and from the bank committee of 1337. John A. Latt was first county juilsecf I Kiii29, and a director, and when he knew of the fulony he abstained from calling attention to it. Even when Mr. Treadwell, a Counsellor in the U. S. Supreme Court had written out a complaint, sworn lo and plac6d it in Judge Lott'a hand to send to the Grand Jury, he did not send it though he said he would. The concealment of the Bank embezzlement was felony — so was the embezzlement— but no one was pro- 1 ceeded against. Crime was hushed up lest Woodbury would hear of it and take out the deposites? Like Butler, the first care was to " save the bank," If bank directors will do this to get the deposites— if judea will thus act on their oaths— what must be the influence in the hands of a corrupt and vile government win have continually ten or fifteen millions by which to attract the supiwrt of the lovers of mammon! in Senator this judse voted for Barker lo he Attorney General, that wn of course. Another Jnhn Lott, a ger* rtl, from same place, bein" in " necessitous circumstances," applied lo Major Swartwout for 81500 aya iu the Custom House, and went into office there accordingly. | * A Chancellor's chairs and tables, feather beds and palliasses, going under ihe hammer, at Albany. f( debt, looks like a sign of judicial purity. If he had stained the ermine by taking bribes, like Lord Bacon, I he would have been more wealthy, and better able to keep off the sheriff: I wish the Ex-Clerk of Assembly I had been so careful as lo date his letters, that we might have been enabled to record the name of one i Andrew Marvell at least in the midst of a judiciary of political partisans and dealers in slocks, shares, [ scrij). and all the hocus pocus of Wall and Lombard streets. Marcy con)e8 next to him. Ho was placed 0.1 the Supreme Court bench, (says Gov. Van Buren,) to ensure his salvation from ruin in this worla at least [ I fear he was too long grateful to his benefactor. It is a common bv-word that the N. Y. Custom House is a sort of lazar-house or hospital for dise; politicians, but I did not expect to see it acknowledged by the leaders of ' the democracy' tnat the Judiciarj I bench i.s not much bettor. Soma folks think tliat Judges lose their wisdom ;il sixiy- otiieis IhattbTl improve as they get older. In some countries men are chosen to preside in the courts, because of tte I honesty, skill, and learning— while in others they ascend the bench, or fill Ihe procurator fiscal's seal.oj I the principle on which neat cattle are stall-fed— to fatten them. Will not thes« facts rouse the true hearleO | milliuas to prepare for tCk" the Convention} JUDGES — JUDGE MAKING CAUCUSES. 139 in this world at leasi given very general dissatisfaction this court. . . . Thp o\iv h-,,, !,««« full of farmers, &c these two days_at a Cattle Sho^-^buU Wv^'eenLt^ilTf ,t myself. Chief Justice Spencer delivered a speech on the occasion, by way as I TZatflffT""''''' ^'' '^' ^""'f r^''" ^ ""^^ *^ '^^V'^^'^ '<> rettrc to Shades oj pruacc uje In haste, yours truly, , , . B. F. BUTLER. In another etter, April 1819, Mr. Butler tells Mr. Hoyt from Sandy Hill that " The appointment of Jud^^e Woodworth is universally reprobated here wi^hoJt any exceptions, except the Clintonians." "^vcu iicre , wiinoui Extracts of letters from Michael Ulshoeffer, 1st County Judge, N. Y to Jessa Hoyt, member of Assembly, Albany. ^ ^ ' ' ^^^ New York, Feb. 3, 1823.-" I presume that our city appointments are to be rec mmended by the members, at least I have been informed that such is the wish of he Governor Will your friend Noah consent to this?-for I see bl his paier that he rulas at A bany, and that those who offend him are to receive L quarter Pray inform me whether he is authorised to say, as he does in his paper Ihafall tt St"e?i wf::"'' ''^ 'h'"" ''I' ^* ^"'"^' "' -^ °ff- their na^rai Albany this winter? What are you doing about state printer, will not Leake obtain it ' Let Z tZeZl """" '"^ °P'" '' "'^""'"^'^ °PP°^^^^°" ^« ™^''^' «' niak^g agai;:; .h^H^Jr'"'';!'''- ^^'k^®^^- ^/''? '■"'P^'^t *° th^ Comptrollership, I can only say h t t was not desired by me, and that I had so written before I received your\ind letter I have no such views, I assure you. Even that highly respectable situatoJ would not tempt me to leave here and reside at Albany. Nor rifeTeto TlZe first Judge tn amj event My views are more hnmbll, and I have no intention 2 present to become a candidate for any office beyond that of a Notary PubS Ac cept, however, my grateful thanks for your friendly intentions, and if I Lve an opportunity I will reciprocate. Do not make a Staie Printer,* who will tJInsfer the feuds of New York to Albany, and throughout the State Dulners would be preferable to mdiscretion. Do look to this. ! regret that the appearance^? things isunpropitious at Albany. But is it necessary to oppose Governor Yates 'W^^^^ notth.n,.s goon smoothly in future? If the members of AssemblyTave r' o^mS h county Judges, how comes ,t that the Governor nominated ^L^u;, &c " Has not the Uovernor complied with the members' wishes in this respect ? " ' P in k Washington, Feb. 19.— Addressed to Jesse Hoyt, Esq. N Y " ' ■ Mi dear Sir-You must either work for Ju^grs'ffeant or yourself .f you do not wish Tallmadge to get the offi of D.^A. [tistrict a2W] ' for hL ^ Cart-Horse in the matter, and things are working weU fth'J'f.il?^*^"^',""!^ y'^^?^^ *° ^""^^^ ^-'^ '''^'""^ °^«' y°"rs. ort account of his (the Judge's) peculiarly unpleasant situation in a pecuniary point of virnu Do help the Judge. The decision of the matter is to be left to the N.' Y. Mem- SeTSSadr''"'^^'"^'-.'!:'^'^'^"^ f pretty much to a man co^. raitteato lallmadge. Great haste, sincerely yours, H. B." t [Harriet Butler.] 140 MRS. HARRIET BUTLER AND JOHN W. EDMONDS. Endorsed by Hoyt,"H. Butler, Feb. 24lh, 1834." New York." Addressed " Jesse Hoyt, Esq,, Washington, Feb. 24th, 1834. My Dear Sir — I can only say in relation to the (ithce which was the subject of a former letter, that you have become a candidate too late in the day for any hopes of succuss. If Tullmadge nnd Sutherland are set aside, as it is very likely they will be, if tiie matter is referred to the Delegation, 1 think Mr. Edmomis wtllswrted. So far as PAUPERISM* is a qvalijicalion and rei' the body poli- tick. That lessons of wisdom will be learned now, (and learned by heart), tint will do men good. tHere four lines of the lady's MS. are carefully erased ! She adds—] )on't be curious to know the above — it only showed a little of the old leaven of Federalism, which my admission to the Cabinet cannot, or has not yet, covered. The mail will close, and I must haste — Sincerely yours, II. B. Mr. J. Hoyt. [Harriet Butler.] CHAPTER XXXV. Mr. Butler^ 3 revenues as U. S. Attorney. Why is he again in office? Enormow law fees extorted. '' Belts' s foraging ground." Wise on Defaulters. Sarml R. Belts. He eocplains the Svii-Treasury Law m Hoyfs case ! ! The Belts fam- ily. $18,000 a year for one clerkship!! Theron Rudd. Cruel persecution oj La Chaise <5f Co. Bribed and perjured witnesses sent to testify ! ! Butler persiiadd to take '^ half fees." Picture of a Religious Hypocrite. Legal Bobbeiy. Birckrd and Hoyt combine to discard the merchants of N. Y. from juries, as not trusi- worthy ! Hoyt extorts $ 85,000 of blood money from foreign houses. The Con- vention. In the course of 28 months,t Mr. Butler realized, as District Attorney, from' the government alone, $62,690, besides enormous and unlawful [yes wn/aw/w/j fees * John W. Edmonds's name as a political manager is familiar to our readers. That quality, with hi) connections with Van Buren and their old associates, and the uses he may be put to as a political character in a wider and more influential circle, may have decided Governor Wrieht to elevate the dealer in stocks and shares, law and politics, Warren street, N. Y., to the bench. He believes in Morris's unwritten 1,™- warned Glentworth to go away, and gave up to him the very paper-s he afterwards justified Morris for hunting after at midnight. ' The end justified the means.' In Nov. 1631 he was elected for the 3d district to the Senate of N. Y. ; followed Silas Wright to gel hold of the deposites in 1H34 ; is said to t)e pious; can keep his olfice, worth, I hear, 86000 or more, till three score ; wears tiie anti slavery face of Van Burcn politics ; has done a deal of party work in his lime : was inspector of Sing Sing prison when lie got Judce Kent's place; and is lauded in the N. Y. Evening Post for his 'zeal, efliciency, enliglitened and l)enevo. lent views.' When we get to the close of Mrs. Bodine's case I will have more to say, in a future edition. t Nothing can be more erroneous than that men of humble origin are more friendly to the class among whom they were reared than the dwellers in palaces and among the opulent of the land. "The beegaron horse back" is often found in America. Look at JelTcrson and Lafayette— reared in wealth— then comjare their conduct with that of M. Van Buren and B. F. Butler, who becan life selling spirituous iiqums in lavems, and J. Hoyt, an insolvent store keeper. The latter sneers at merchants foreign born, and talks of his ■ long line of ancestors." In his friends Noah and Fliillips's National Advocate, of Dec! iel3, and in the li'iij Island papers, he will find Jesse Hoyt of Stamford in Connecticut, advertised, with others, by bis Captain aa a deserter from the United Slates Army. Perhaps this namesake was of no kin to him— perhajw a near rela- tive. What matters it ? I state the fact in condenmation of his insulting conUuci to classes «f men. It'' ^ruel tg denounce bad and good logotber, of any race or bod; of men. ney," as a co ce ? Enormovs s, as not trust- ses. The Con- butler's law extortions— wise on van buren. 141 from defendants, wh..i his jackall Hoyt had pounced upon, and the profits of his pnvate practice This was better than Sandy H.ll aJd the W. and W lank under Jacob Barker. Mr. Butler is apain District Att«rney-and n irbeheved h;t. tl.o monstrous and iniquitous (even where legal) fees and gams he lot lormer ly are ;.ja/.,W/y curtailed by act of Congress. I know that rt h^'so f?e will not be so barekced lu us exactions now as he was in Hoyt's time- ut his mom, IS enormous, and unbecoming the style of a frugal republic. No Co less could possibly have intended to erect such a torturing, harrassing, grinding iZS ion as the U b. Courts here are snown to be in the session papers of Co Tess Messrs. Iloyt and Butler were old comrades-when in power tlLy\.ndorlod each other-and if they did not pluck the public goose, it never will be plucked by man xTo '^ 27,'h fv'n- ^ 'f^^ ''"^ \^- ^^""'■"■««i«"ers' reports and tesLny" U J'n^ Congress, 2d Session, H. of R. [Executive,] containing the histS of Hoyt, Butler and the N. Y. Custom House, printed by the nation May S7 How President Polk, with the facts there stated, all iu array befor^ 1 ^m ' could replace Mr. Butler where he now is, passes my understanding. I wish I cou d spare the means to spread, gratis, through the whole Union, the evidences of SSn Ty. '^" ^"^"'^' "''"'■'"'=^' ^^''•-th-keeping District Attorney of In one case, the Schooner Catharine, the U. S. Marshal, at New York, took Fll * P m'"',!^","^*1 '^^ P™*'™^^ "^'^^ «^1« ^ere onl^ $3000-in another Llloi&Co. Mr. Butler brought 40 suits wrong, stopt them-got $2395 as his frpr;!'"'.'""?'!:'"''"^"'"^* ^'^^'^ («ame case)-exacted ofher $1142 cos s -issued (by his order) execution, and there were no goods to take. Butler knew ere ^vas little prospect of collecting the debt " when he piled up these costs ^Strange and .mpalpable to common honesty as it would seemf COUNSEL JhE i)E7FNnATT^'' ^ $500 were demanded AND EXTORTED FROM IHL 1JE1;^ s^z^i^t &^:;^.?^ ^i^-i^S^ «Ta !«;; the wor't if ?4dirart^',?intlrJH't'A'jH""''"*''''' io government, Wm. Penn," thal'the b;st;y.iem ri;hisou3lv a?h»^nfJ;iL iiy '»o'"i"'siered by bad men ; and tliat tlie worst system will be as the best if lel'trustKd servTnts " ^ '"'"• ^ "^"^'' ''^""'" '' ^''" '^ wanted-a^general turn-out of all failh- wteeta°j;aU'KdT«^^^^^^^^ ""'^""^'' '^' '■"'"'" """^ ""J"'* of Martin Van Buren and 142 JUDGE BETTS AND HIS HAPPY FAMILY — THERON RUDD. cution — Crittenden, Attorney CJenoral, and Ewinfi:, See. Treas., considered Hoyi liable to a criminal indictment — Judges IJetts and Thompson when applied to for a vviirrant to arrest Hoyt, were of opinion that ho was not liable, although he had kept back, had not ent«red, but had refused to pay over public money. The law said tb;it diif miters were to be sent to jail— the judges replied that it did not mean it. Tiu) Sub-Treasury law was then a more niockery — a trick, to be reproduneii next election, with nmo musk, if the pets blow up again, lloyt's decision, with Van Huron's consent, to take cheeks en banks, and call tlio bank notes specie which was constantly acted on, show that hypocrisy was always uppermost there also. Mr. Hetts was a keen, sharp, money-loving sort of person, and the government commissioners, from the manner in which he filled up the offices in his court, making it a sort of family concern, became suspicious that the law of Congress! limiting fees and salaries, was evaded. Tliey accordingly required from the officers of ins court answers on oath as to fees, salaries, &c., and inciuired what was their relationship to the Judge, which last question appears to have put his honor very much out of temper. In John Harris's testimony (Doc't. 212 p. 405) he state's th;it the clerks of the U. S. district and circuit courts, in New York particularly, had annually exacted enormous fees. Jui/ire Betlx's brulher was clerk of both' and he admitted that he had taken in cash if 18,000 a year, for his clerkship for one court only. How much he got out of liie other court is not stated — but, in dut time ho resigned, and Judge Betts next appointed Ins son, then under age. Even a leech will leave ofl" sucking human blood when it is full. " The judge might not be interested in the fees before ; but is he not, now (1812) that his son is. ..ppoinled, interested in the fees? And if he be, is he not in- terested in forfeiting goods ? For, if there were no forfeitures, the trials would cease, and there would be no fees? " Collector Hoyt informed the law officer of the Treasury Department, officially, [p. 13, doc. 218] "that he had no confidence in judicial adjustments, and consid- ered it a hopeless task to get verdicts from Judge Betts and Mr Waddell's ju- ries " — he therefore preferred a compromise. To the government com'rs. he ap- peared to be the greatcontrolling power in Betts's courts— though he, Hoyt, writes of him thus [p. 20.] " Mr. Fleming informs me that he only heard of the sei- zures by accident, and he knew nothing of them till the returns came from the clerk of the court, into whose hands the -jhd^e of the Court [Betts] is prone to k careful to have the money paid, so that his brotlier (the clerk) ivould get his fees and commissions." Theron Rudd was clerk of this court many years ago — got ' his fees and com- missions,' and took care to secure, as his own share of the people's money, $ 120,000, entrusted to his care, which he buttoned close up in his breeches pocket, and kept it too. Theron was a delegate ' for Mr. Van Buren's cause,' as Bennett would say, up at Herkimer, long after that. These great defaulters are all great friends of Mr. Buren, who thinks that Morris's never written laws don't y>plY to their cases. Their sympathies and Mr. V. B's seem to run all one way. Theron, Butler, Price, and the Bettses, judge, son and brother, have made a great deal of money out of U. S. Courts in their time. In 1839, a bale of goods was seized— Samuel Bradbury claimed it. After two years of a law journey thro' Mr. Betts's court, it was sold in 1841, and its con- tents (cassimeres) brought $321. Butler (Attorney) produced his bill of costs, $225— Betts's clp'ks theirs, $81— the Marshal his, $83. The proceeds were swallowed up by th ) democratic law-dispensers, and the collector paid them ether $68 to square their accounts ! Hoyt and Butler's zeal for " compromises " did not diminish after the election of Harrison.* * Mr. Rennet, wlien ctiainnan of a committee in llie British parliament, made a report on certain tiou^ and cruelties practised m a jail in London. Jones tlie jailer Wiis examinetl, who testified thai 1,= . only a (lepnty— the real jailer lieiiis; a son of the Lord Chief Justice, and then abroad— with whose father snarei the immense prohts of his prison house, per agreement. ' he story produced an epigram, not ini extor- heras plicable to our Bells. Here it is- Whon Endand's chief jailer \v.is c-iUnd to account, And compelled of hia profits to state the amount, The committee observed that the sum was too large For one, who had merely of pris'ners the charge. " The sum !" exclaimed Jonee. " why the Chief Judge's eon, A lad, who abroad on his travels is gone, VICTH^I.S QF HOYT AND BUTLER's AVARICE. 143 The case of La Chaise, Fouche & Co. ie U.ub reported by the Com'rs to the Premdent.-" I he means resorted to by Hoyt to obtL mon./from these foreign- ers, are m.surpassed w. enormity and official perfidy by any act during his cont nS- ance in olhce. It soems to have been the policy of ihe^oliector, wheS he dSncd mmke seizures with a view to compromises, to select foreign houses, with whom there would, in all probability, by less sympathy in ihe community, ^nT a 2™ r„Sntore"'''"'l'rjhtir7r"'' ''^ "" r h'^-^-^^' ^-« /tlemSted on «„ Aintrican nouse. J.d Chaise & Co. were Frenchmen, ignorant of our laws and language, of good standing and nrosecuted a successfu busine s i . New yT.rk m or ins aim iiutler s system— Campbell and Davis were put in requisition. Of tho k,rmer 1 have spokea-Dav.s was equally vile and infamous. Of Campbell Hon .rites to bidney Bartlett, Boston-" By a perusal of the testimony oVth; tr?a ere, you will readily perceive that he is ready to make any statement to serve toelt, tvuhout reference to ihe truth of the case.'^ I„ reading of Iloyt and Bug- ler conduct in office, I have been irresistibly drawn to connect them in my mind will, the infamous creatures ,n Ireland, who kept -the battalion of test mo^y "al- «.]j in readiness to swear away the lives of the men who had risen for freedom in La Chaise and Fouche became the victim of Hoyt's avarice— the charges airainst ese $40,000 worth were free of duty-the rest were dutiable and paid, exceo their last received goods, for which the collector had their bonds to penn an ef nS"l838'Sovfse„rr '"" ■r'''' '"^ aPP-iseme,.tTn The'^Sc'sto" la April, 1838, Hoyt sent his myrmidons to seize every thing in their store paid or unpaid, free or dutiable, and at the same time he seized the five cases in S Swn custody, not waiting for an appraisement. Mr. La Chaise was arrested oi a diarge f perjiny, next-the wretches Campbell and Davis swore thatThe House hfd bnbed them-three iijdictments were prepared-the grand jury found the bflls on C & Da evidence. The marshal kept the goods a year, beli SStrTct at or'ne? led mformations, and the case was kept from trial Ull these unfortunate fbSers were forced to accept Hoyt's terms f.3r a compromise, or sustain a total foss olTei! operty, Hoyt wrote to Coe, at same time, that he well knew he could neithe gel them convicted on the civil or the criminal suits, and he gives this as are^wTdd mpromse n He knew he could not recover in an American co^r? Jne cent he ereforo advised with Butler, Coe, &c. and ollered to take $45,o5o, a" d the law fee .and comproniise the whole, perjury cases and all ! $ 2,500 were the costs- andHoyt and But er compounded the felonies, us they affirmed they were for a p7 umary consideration ! ! dampbell and Davis had no hesitancy in swearYng a" H^yt quired before the grand jury, to ruin these innocent merchants, but thefdursTno come openly before their countrymen with the same tale-the pa ns and p^enalttea of 5raVthefns,a'r"/ V' 'T' ^f/'^^r^^ ^^ey had undert'aken to LT ^con- hi .',in '^f '"f^^'«=« «* the degraded and unprincipled Hoyt, they shrunk from the fe ."''"' I 'u?"''' "^"Z- 22' ^^^^> »^y« " No suit was brought for unpaid Jit, s and no probable ground of recovery in any such suit could be discovered ' ' H adds, that It was suspected they had frequently entered goods too low-and oner' XTn^t'^r "" ^^°^' g-u"ds of this persecution^ What if they had h! ,t! P A^^ "°i o® ''^*"" umpires who had passed upon their goods chosen &«v hTif"* "^^ !'"^'',' ""''^ I*"^'^' '"> PJ'-^'^e a higher valuation on the lamS LL^ '^°T'^'^^'"l $C,aG0 was taken from^he6a merchants for dut^s bSselhev^lidl^f "f 1^"- * ^'f ^ °1,P«"^' ''°"^» P'^*«"d«^ '° have been forfS Because they did not deliver to the collector some part of the very goods he had rZrrr^"/" impossibility, one of Butle's items of cost^s las $500 a^ ^r^an^f^rriV'!.*^"'' review of Butler's report, the U. S. Commissioners caint an appeal to the government for its approbation," because of the " pecu- Is the jailer in fact, by his father eelecte iniipiily of the age, that he has made up his mind not to receive a dollar ot the pub- lic money, but he intends to make me receive all ; and 1 am quite aj>prehinsive Ikt he will not even receive his own costs. I am sure he will not receive half as much as ho will be entitled to. I shall lecture him on this subject." Mr. lloyt knew his man better than this. Independent of his private law business, opinions, advices, &c. &c., Mr. Butler took from the 11. S. alone, in 1830, $ 18,235— in IHO, $3'2,210 — and resolving to have a grand haul out of compromises, settlements, " Yorkshireinen," and Frenchmen, tbo worthy descendant of the Connecticut scythe-maker, and of Oliver Cromwell (! !) condescended to receive for his legal labors during the first quarter of 1841, only in? $ 12,244. No doubt ho would have taken more, but for " the iniquity of the ago." In Butler's Memoirs, Democratic Heview, Jan. 1839, we are told that "Mr, Butler has been, since the year 1817, a professing and zealous member of tlie Pres- Dylerian church." Why not put the profession into practice? Only two years afiw he joined the church, he wrote to Jacob Barker from the Bank — " I told him [Gil- christ,] I was ready to pail in specie, hnX commenceil paying Wiswall," &c. Ills letter was written on Wednesday morning — it admits that he had but $1,400 in cpecie, to serve all vomers till Saturday morning, and that Wiswall had prcsenled $ 4,800, and Gilchrist $ 5,300 of the notes of the Bank for payment. Did not Mr, Butler tell an untruth here ! Gilchrist, he adds, did not wait. And why? Because he saw that Mr. B. had resolved not to jiay him. In the Democratic Review, Mr. Butler's biographer assures us, that " before he left the bank, by great exertions and care, its credit was restored, and specie payments resumed." Not one wcni ofthisistrue — yet our zealous professor, though a known contributor to the Re- view, remains acquiescent and silent! " He was," says the Review, "from the commencement, one of the most zealous advocates" " of the temperance reform." Is the three hours' debauch behind the bank counter, with the Young Putroon, the zealous advocate's practice ? If the Presbyterian church allows Mr. B. longer to remain in her communion, without evidence of deep contrition, she is a fallen star as compared to what she was in the honest old times of Calvin, Knox, Rutherford and Renwick — but we do not desire to anticipate her course, with a brother who, on his own showing, has been guilty of the crime of obtaining money upon false pretences." Speaking of Barker's conduct in the Washington and Warren, in 1819, Butler, as his counsel on the trial in 1827, when he was convicted for his frauds in I6ii6, said, " I know that the most unparalleled exertions were made by him to redeem his bills, and to indemnify the public If he could have coined his heart's blood into g(dden drachms, not a drop of it would have been withheld, whilst one of his notes remained unpaid Since th.pn he hns lahorfd wjth lir.tirinj assiduity, and PROVIDLNtJE has smiled on his exertions." Even as a money- changer, and stock-jobber, Butler cannot help presenting his confederate to the k PORTRAIT — butler's FEES AND LAWSUITS. 145 Miirt as a Buecossful jjambler, whoae trade ia under the eapecial guidance of I0» Providerire ! ! ! Thn youihful aiul nhscirvant Pollork, in his " C^oiirse of Time," sketches the picture of one, who at the day of judjjment was sent below — Wherfl mill Ills faco, fri>m (iiirlonl cimlora, we«n A holy air, wlilrh ■ciyn t'l nil Ihnl pniM Him by : 1 was a hyiKwrila on earlh. I hnstnw it on Mr. Polk's friend, tho District Attorney at New York, with injunctions, that, at a mirror, or eisewhcrc, he shall try to find the original : "He wM a man Who Btiilu thfl livery of ilia cimrl of heaven To aiiivo iho ilovil ; ill vlrliie'i) giiUe Pevoiired the widow's house anil orphan's brtad ; III hnly phrane truiitacteil villainies That coimnoii aiiuier.i iliiril not meddle with. At siicred fMiwn he R.it nmon^ the saints, And with his '{iiilty hand* touched hcdiest thinga; And iionn of ijii liniiMitwl more, or aiijlied IMiirc deeply, or with ifraver cniinteiiance, Or lonuor prayer, wept o'er the dying man, Who^^e infant children, at the moment, ha Planned how to roll ■ in sermon etyle he boufht., And Slid and llnd ; and salutations made In scripture terms ; he prayed by qiianlity, And with bis repetitions long and loud, All knees were weary ; wilhono hand he piil A penny in the urn of poverty. And with tliB other tonic a ehiiline out. On charitable lists— tniii. pets which told The public ear, who had in secret done Tiie poor a lienefit, and half the alms Thoy told of, took ihnnisulvoi to keep them sounding— Ho blazed his name, more iilBiised to nave it there Tiian in tho Iviok of lifu. Seo'st thou the man) A Hflr|)iint with an aniful's voice ! a eriive With tlownrs iMstrewud ! and yet few were deceived, His virtues over-done, his (ace Too ifrava, his prayers too Ion?, his charities Too pompously altnndad, and, his speech Larded too freiiuently, and out of time With (iorindts imrasoology, were rente Tli-it in his garments ojioned in spite of him, Throinih which tho wollac mtomed eye could see Tlie mttonnesa of Ins hea, "* In 1839, Jime term, District Court, Mr. Butler moved for judgments on Lee. Babcock & Co. on 26 bonds— o«l motion. He demanded for this, of government ees, $1,860. Same month, one motion for judgments against Gibson & Co on 4 bonds-he .received $ 1,893. March mO-one motion, for judgment against liBe & Lo. paid Butler fees (from public purse), $2,514. Feb. 27, 1841 Bntler fi>r,;n^ motion against same firm, on 46 bonds, put in his pocket $3,338 of fees— also $3,198 for ,mr; motion of a liko kind in April, and $ 1,324, on another, made same day. In May another, and took $ 1,276 fees. On 14 motions by him for judgments on 296 merchants' bonds, his costs charged to the United States • and 'io', n^^°"*°^ ^*»5 taxes raised on sugar, woollens, cottons, coffee, &c., came to ur u ' "^^ """'' "f^^^^'^h the debtors ever paid back. The Treasury Solicitor at Washington even writes him to multiply suits for his own emoluuent, and for the benefit of Belts s clerk and the marshal, by increasing costs, provided the debtors an M/uen/— otherwise to make one suit serve on all the bonds due by one house the unprincipled character who thus wrote was a Mr. Matthew Birchard, who wa^ P«™i"ed to resign with Bntler and Hoyt, his confederates. _Mr. Hoyt wrote him, Feb. 22, 1840, that " hitherto large numbers of jurors have anJlfinlffi'hi*"'*''.,''"'' thef.llowing description of Charles I, into Milton's mouth, not thinkine it mislit apply tolerably well to some of the family o^ld Noll alno, when transplanted to America :""""« '* ""S"' ™nr»L L 1 . "'^ T,'' ''^ 'ji^„Pe"I>le. i« it a sufficient defence that he keeps it to his companions i If h« Sle?n nb "h' "" '^^^^ ''^" ^^ be held blameless because he prayeth at night and m.^E if U II He wn oils ni'in *j T tVi M. m,. V^^V "T V ■""■ """ ""•;''; 5"^n'Jisiiu= u: viriuKs as might maka his vicM most i]arur«r. BlwaiSj ^H T ii'/hfh'u ""' ""' ^''"'«'' ^"'^'"^ '""'^«'- ^-he second Richard, and Vhe wcond and fourth waSct^w ^J"^^^ Harry were men profuse, gay, boisterous ; lovere of women and of wine of no out- Wd »w dU^, °' f '*'''\5'- . ^^"^'^ «"" a f"'«r af^f 'he Italian iaahion ; gra.e, damu», of « wlemn wri^ wa jober diet ; w constant at prayers aa a priest, as beeOlees of oaths «s an atheist." au■^a«^ 19 • I 146 THE MERCHANTS PROSCRIBED — FOREIGNERS PLUNDERED. been taken from the mercantile classes, against which course (he adds) I have re- monstrated." Birchard immediately wrote the Mnrshal, at N. York to " endeavor to select impartial, capable men, who are totally disconnected with trade, and all its influences the whole nation knows that confidence may well be placed in the integrity and judgment of honest farmers and mechanics." Here we see the Collector, behind the screen, directing the marshal, through the government solicitor to discard whole classes of men, as jurors, in cases where that Collector would derive a vast income from a doeisiou one way, but not the other. Was it not the interest of the old, intelligent, enterprising merchant, of established character and unsullied fame, that real attempts to defraud the revenue should be put down ? Undoubtedly, for it came in contact with his interest as a fair trader— and yet Hoyt proscribed him from the jury box, doubtless because his knowledge and honor would prevent him from stooping to oppress and injure otntrs, Hoyt would punish rogues, he says— but it is evident he dared not trust the up^ right dealer to judge as to who the rogues were. How such a document as the report before me must have excited the detestation and contempt of every honora- ble mind against Van Buren and his mean-souled cabal ! In page 265, and elsewhere, the U. S. Com'rs report to the President and Con- gress, that Hoyt instituted prosecutions against some eight or ten foreign houses, chiefly English importers of woollens, on the pretext that goods imported by them in Swartwout's time — in most cases 18 months or two years before the date of these prosecutions, and on which the goveaiment appraisers had decided, as being entered at fair rates— were undervalued. He harrassed them in the entries of their fall im- portations of woollens for 1839— threatened them with the testimony of wretches who, instead of being employed in the Customs should have been whipt at the cart's tail— held them to heavy bail on pretended extra chargv.-s out of the goods they had entered and paid for years before— and actually extorted $85,000 blood money from them, besides fees to dear Mr. Butler. Compare John Van Buren specula- ting out of Marcy's message with Hoyt and Butler in the Custom House. They are still the same. The knaves' compact holds good to the last, gentlemen— and if this be hbel ye are lawyers, and make the most of it. The Convention will come, and, depend on it, honest men and true will be ripe for resurrection by the month of June 1846. To suppose that knavery like yours could hold out much longer would be to doubt the justice of Him who planted in the mind of man feehngs of love and kindness, one to another. To return to my narrative : Of this $85,000 compromise, the chairman of the U. S. Com'rs says in his report : " The motives of the collector were mercenary and corrupt in the inception of these proceedings, and animated all his acts, to the final consummation of the official robbery which he perpetrated on his victims in open day, and with the ap- probation of the government at Washington, to which he ought to have been held responsible for conduct so disgraceful to the national character." Butler says, in a letter, that Hoyt " collected their various entries and invoices" — Hoyt, in the cases of Taylor, Shaw, &c., declares, " we had not possession of the original or other invoices." We compromised, says Hoyt, '< because we had no evidence on which to convict the defendants "—he even "boasts of having overreached and entrapped them by pretending to know more than he really did, and to have evi- dence which he had not." Hoyt's whole course shows a disposition to quarrel with and ill-treat England, with a view probably to a war. Heaven protect our country from war anywhere —and, worst of all, a war where plausible peculators, financiers, land-jobbers, and pretended reformers, with mantles of piety, would guide the helm of state, and share the prey of the innocent ! CHAPTER XXXVI. Hoyt, Beers, and the N. A. Trust and Banking Co. Its commencement. A grani borrowing, stock-jobbing, speculating machine, on free-trade [!!] principles. Pre- pares bonds for $ 11,000,000. Ways and Means. Becomes Insolvent-deals m Ofttou— Retains B. F. Butler. Chancery Reforms. Jesse Hoyt bolsters the Bank, and speculates m its stock, which begins at $95 and falls to $3. BEERS, HOYT AND THE N. A. TRUST CO. 147 ball^Mr^Wh "S™h". ^"?u ^r.'^^B^"''*"? Company " is known also as Beers's banic, Mr. Joseph* D Beers the " financier " having been its president until the cunning speculators who got it up had pillaged this country, and Tven EuroDe o :Cr t'plS/int thl"r"T^V ^"^'"1 ^.??'^^^'^' -^ I tWrMrSTen'tly ec 1 1 usi^ own nffl "^ M^' ^avid Leavitt as Receiver, loaded with secret trusis made to its own officers and their assoc ates. Mr. L ^s the ffentlemin : rTcrSS'm'X^^to'of • --^'--f harpers and shavers of WallTeS'S wo vears^ obsPrlnf nn ^'^'^^-jobbing trials of 1826-7; and his first report, after M? Leavht fmindTn' P^^^.-^^^^^-^^'^lent traces of his ancient intrepidity.^ BeVrs's note fo^f 26 srTnH^ broken silver dollar, and no more, also President Mid somP of thp L ' ' "'' °^*'? obligations, a water barrel, a map of Auburn ^ This banking c!m ="■' '^""^^^Pl'ite its ample state prison ?) some coal, &c. thefr e trad^lawXh^F'^'' organized July 14, 1838, under a modification of Ire monev CO, M J , J^^f ' ^T' ^^^^P^' ^''- ^^ clamored for, when no more money could be made by the Safety Fund speculations. On June i.3th a nre- Fl Xrrr^j"^ 'S'- ^°"t/"«" °|?-'^ -d Charles Hoyt! to D.'stro'ng Weed and thr'ep'or fn .1'^' ^''^l' ^-Olcott, Saml. Wilkeson of Buffalo, N kt dV On thrn.rnf °T^,'''m ^^^ ''t'^ " P«>^f«™er," Beers, did not appear mat (lay. Un the 13th of July, Messrs. Beers, C. Hoyt, H. Yates J B Ma-lav ol thT78t'h'T;enrv tt'^rrh' P-P-'y - '^^^'^ New York, 14th Jan'y, 181)1, as ofiiw p?"^''~' "'"u^ "■""'•'^ ^"" '" '"' '"« '^"°*^' Whether our BanV« pj-.v being willing to lake renowalg /v mn. nl/ " ,"," .'^' '"■"'? 'f'-''''^'* '" '*"^'" ''"I "''""^■•. «'i" all l^e able to get'then ? It w^ prediaed fy 80 me persona that aonie of them mi-ht not have another chance. preujueu wiHsucceod'in'lpfTr^'^'i o^■~^° you Uiink that an application from a very respectable list of petitioners r»if h ^ " ?-^ a Charter similar to the one granted at the last session ? ^ WaUltreei l" ^m^wiiffi / ^"""^ <'Pi'uo.n on the above, or on any other subjects that may have to do with TriVco Siork wh^^h Lln'°- '"" f n "'? Z^ ^°l' °P'"'°"' ' hold considerable Life and ™si to. Mock, which wiU rise or fall probably when the question is settled about other charters. 148 WHOLESALE STOCK-JOBBING — J. B. MURRAY. were made payable to Hallett (clerk of the Superior Court,) Graham (their attor- ney,) Talmage (now Mayor of Brooklyn,) and other officers of their association. They sold what they could everywhere, to raise the wind — and this base, pawn- broking concern they had the assurance to call a bank and an American trust, with paid up capital ! I Beers, their guide, was the person of whom Bennett in his Herald once put out a j5u^, about his retiring in Sept. '35, with a fortune of a mil- lion of dollars, the proceeds of his industry, and so forth. In the winter of 1839-'40, this patent borrowing machine, with a capital to lend, found its promises coming in for payment, its bought stocks declining in value, and its cash very low indeed ; and among other schemes to keep afloat it sought the aid of Martin Van Buren, through his commercial grand vizier, Jesse Hoyt. At the same time, 900 bonds FOR ELEVEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, in promises to pay to Walter Mead the cashier, FIVE YEARS AFTER Feb. 1840, were signed by Beers, as president, and while yet in the company's hands, bonds and mortgages were executed from the company to Graham and others its associates, as a pretend- ed security for payment — and a million trust deed was filled up, the third party being Mr. Horsley Palmer of the Bank of England, and others in Europe. Many more capers were cut with public credulity, but I have not room to notice them. Some of their bonds they paid to their creditors as cash — they handed them to others as " a collateral security" — for instance, to T. E. Davis who had LENT tlicm his note for $79,000. To Col. James B. Murray,* a character much mixed up with American stock-jobbing, and a regular signer of Swartwout's Custom House recommendations, they gave $30,000, to try to dispose of in Europe, for his own account, he having been their great gun there i In the course of 1840, Talmage, the Brooklyn Mayor, succeeded Beers as president, and he also signed lots of trumpery due-bills, which they called poBt notes, certificates, bonds, &c. In May, 1840, a State law was passed, forbidding such associations as this from issuing any of their bills or notes unless payable on demand, and without interest. This was wisely intended to protect the public from such wholesale knavery ae I have adverted to. In their statements for the public eye, as required by statute, they had concealed much of their trust conveying, due-bill puffing machinery— and found no difficulty, it seems, to persuade learned lawyers, " for a consideration," to be of, and declare their, opinion, that the statute forbidding their post-note trade did not intend to forbid it at all, just as learned lawyers were found many years ago, of opi.iion, that although th'» U. S. Constitution expressly forbids the States to issue promissory notes, as cash, or tamper with the currency, it did not mean to do that, by any means. When Mr. Leavitt was appointed Receiver, he found Mr. Graham and others managing this insolvent institution, as trustees. The very men through whose management the bank was broken down, yet stood by the wreck they had caufed, and retained control of its whole property ! Who ever heard of a reckless pilot and engineer landing a North River boat high and dry on the rocks, and afterwards retaining their control, in spite of all concerned, " by previous legal agreement!" It appeared that $ 9000 a year were charged for attending to two of the eight trusts. The Company had done a little, and but httle, as bankers — as stock-jobbers a great deal. They were very needy or very greedy, for, they kept borrowing, at ruinous rates, almost continually. I3eers, and leeches like him, sucked the very life's blood of the institution. Postmaster Graham and his two law firms charged and got about $44,000 for trouble, besides fees, said to amount to as much more. The Company bought cotton for $640,000 here, and sold it at $90,000 loss in England, and also sold their promises to pay for what they would fetch any where. Of course, they must have expected to fail. Mr. B. F. Butler appears to have been the senior counsel of " the trustees." None more fit. When they got in Chancery Butler would feel quite at home ; and if he did not keep Leavitt some * Col. James B. Murray may have been conscientiously opposed to Madiscirs measures in 1812. Many there were who held Napoleon to be as regardless of neutral riiihts as George Hrd. My fault to hiin is ilial he was a sireculator, a dangerous character because a fashionable, polite stock-jobber. He was in service in 1812, was m.ule a lieutenant-colonel by Tompkins in 1S14, with a very complimentary letter, and appointed i.i lS16tothe command of the Governor's Guard. IbelLve he has been an alderman of New York. He was sent to Albany, with Jeromus Johnson, Prosper M. Wetmore, John L. Graham. Steph. Allen, Gid. Lee, and others, on behalf of ' the party' in New York, '.o persuade Marcy and the Legislature in 1S37 to sanction the bankruptcy of the banks, deposites and all— and shrewdly selected as the agent lo represent in Europe the wtabea of Beers's vast stock-jot)bing machine. account " ve JESSE HOYT UPHOLDS BEER's TRUST CO. 149 ut $44,000 for nme at bay there, and delay a decision in due form of law I mistake thp r. Graham, in his statement, assures the public that Mess4 Butlpr S nA "'^^"n investifration, " have a perfect conviction" ihnt iV„ i^utler, &c., after a full throughout. So have l^-^the 'S^^astlton Jh Vvr^'"^^ ''T'^ '" ^'^^^ faUk Receiver consulted Judge Sutherland SaS S?evel h"i?'"^ ^/'""'^'f ' ^^^ in sentiment that the trusts are^l void and uniSl S^.^hl"'i ^'v' ^^'^ .^^^^^ a very able, clear and convincing doclent"' Inrn'" 84f,t:^werrarut 5(^0 shareholders in America, and larffe olaima in V„^^r.^ t\J i "°"^ °^^ divide profitsi? A Committee in Nov Tft4n Th ^^\. « ^''^^ ^^*"' ^'^^""^ *» had played the stockSron a We stl .7h'^ account ''very complicated ''-L^heT/,S to hnl/tW^^^^ '° -^V ^'^ °^» ease truly! No doEbt, ho.e.^t^pZsm^iZ':^::^^^^^^^^ Why 13 not hi8 opimon paraded in print, like the others t ALi^T^ ,^*^^'&*>t- believe that assignments madd by an insXent bnnk iLo^^ 7^°^^ ^^ '^^"y advances, are lawful? ' insolvent bank, like this, to secure future coI!ire:o'J-/n:i^^i:Vs"Lsf ptid^m'^ff"^^^ z' I ^^r'^' ^'^^^ ^^^^ sumption had left of its rematnslVei^^^^ '"^'i'" ^^^^"^ «^«"- In his appeal to the publS, EJ owns That ie enterJd r/°"'' '"^ ^'^''' ^«^«'- of scientific and practical men^aTSrh^thpTh f f "^"^,"3^'. '^^e the evidence Convention meet. There iSelvm^fprbin^T^^^ f°^ dmnbution before the Blackstone says) derived ''frlfh?imLrkli,dTnXirf^°"°^ "^^^^« (^« by their clerical chancellors.'' If oSr-E^e?te introduced 150 IMPORTERS DIFFICULTIES — APPRAISERS. CHAPTER XXXVII. Diflindtipx which surround the vprijuht merchant in New York. Tariff's — Congress Laws — Enormous Law Costs — Protests — Appraisers — Politics — Accotnmodaliuns — Men of iilraw — Our Currency — The Custom House — Employment of mean jobbing politiciavs — Abuse — Smuggling and evasions of Revenue Laws — Surveyw's Public Locks — Drawbacks — Foreign Spices exported. Conclusion. An American merchant, perhaps more especially an importer at New York, who deals in dntiable. arlicles, is more to he pitied than envied. An honest, fair and manly course of dealinff is assuredly not his passport to independence, or a compe- tence, even with real capital, undoubted credit, and great experience. I will explain why this is so. First. The tariffs or rates of taxation on importations are exceedingly change- able, and that, too, sometimes very suddenly. Second. The laws of Congress imposing duties are often differently construed in different Custom Houses. For instance, a Huston merchant may have imported heavily, and been charged 25 per cent. — the same article brought by a New York tr:u!er may have paid .50. 13oth charges may have been returned to the indolent political financiers at Washington, and approved of. When the New Yorker finds himself undersold at Hoston, he enq\iires, ascertains the canse, complains at New York and Washington — hut if he did not enter a protest at the time of payment here — he loses the difterenee. And how could he know that there would be two rates? Only a few weeks since. Collector Lawrence issued a notice that no duties would be refunded unless the importer had formally protested when he paid his money, stating his reasons. In such a case as I have instanced, how could he state what he did not know? And why should tlie justification of an error be persisted in, to his injury, and his right refused him, on a dishonest, legal quibble? Third. But it may bo said — Go to law with the United States. Even Jesse Iloyt admits, that if the Collector seize goods value $400, or less, no matter how unjust the seizure may be, it were better for the merchant to submit than suffer under the enormous law costs and delays of the United States' Courts. Fourth. A number of merchants import each of them the same kind of goods. The Collector says the duty is so much per cent. Some demur and protest — others pay quietly — one of tiem tries the case at law, and the Collector is found to be wrong. Those who protested may get back the duty overcharged — those who did not, are, by Butler and Lawrence's rule, shut out. What could be more iniquitous than such a rule ? In this and the second statement of my series, I am not ofTering hypothetical cases. Secretaries of the Treasury and Comptrollers, and their subs, pop in and out of office, and Collectors and Comptrollers here, are up and down, like Jack in a box. Every new man has a new way with him. Fifth. A set of appraisers are selected by the President; and if the United States Senate find them competent, on evidence to them satisfactory, they go into office, with a little army of clerks and assistants of all sorts. It is their duty to say whether the invoice and the goods correspond — whether the importer has rated them too low, or too high — and to fix the value. To aid them in any case that may require it, the most respectable referees may be selected, and every possible means taken to arrive at a fair valuation. What more can an importer do than pay the rates deemed fair by umpires selected by the highest power in the Union, the treaty making p><\ver ? Yet it is a truth — Who does not feel the deep disgrace of the avowal I Most true it is, that after all this has been done, immense quantities of | goods have been seized m tiie warehouses of the merchants here, and even followed to Philadeljjhia — the parties stopt from effecting sales — their credit broken — them- selves involved in law — and all this to extort from their necessities or their fears more money in taxes than the umpire of the taxing power declared to be just. The very power that declares to you in a circular that no monies paid in duties shall ever j be refunded, no matter how wrongfully paid, unless you protest against the wrong j when paying — selects its umpire, makes no protest, gives a receipt for the duties you have paid — and six months after, sends the thief-takers and its deputies to pull (i own your goods off the shelves, on the pretext that you have forfeited all, by not paying more than government asked ! MERCANTILE DIFFICULTIES IN NEW YORK. IgJ n.ht opposite, with i^-.leBer^^d tTi J^^^^^^^^^ B-e lin. demociat of our stamp," poes with " thp nnrtv '' of In -■ ,® ** regular Hum now and then, possesses a secret Trtv^o worth h,!""''"."?"' ."''"'r^^^^ '""^ nr one of that class. Prosner Piotv* U in^t, '^'^v'"?. and is their busy-body, .hat ho an,l his partner are IrthSs thar^ nothinr! T'^T 'f- ^"'"'non.'except a mantle. Will not the twriatter be Se to snP^o^lnJ t'^^*^ '" 'f'^^""" ^« ^^'h buy, sell, enter goods low, aira^tf.al^' take t^ br 'd oT^f mT-* ^"^'< ihroufTh enormous discounts loans on f-ino^ «.Li!i •, °^ Manly's mouth, sivfi appearance, and a false c edit t Is hnoffnl' '""V" '"'''""'' '"^°'«««' ^ ^elul ihc deposites as they were used in the Manhattan TF .f ^ ?,«« r^"'^" ' ^hink of monies raised for duties iVom many m^Ste and ZJa"' "'"'^'•. ^''' ""» the our politics ' to speculate w^th somTnf thl^ f handed over to a favorite few ' of .eras Jesse Hoyt w ^h^ L thrcl.nm H T." °^ "' ''"''^ '^"^''^ «^ ^harac- such as ours, vary nc hourlv and Pvprt/«,),n,.» Vi ? """^/cliant than a currency Bank notes redeeLble in specie a'.rStvfSiiii'N between United StateJ qualities, payable, unless yorwant he Snev in ;Jh°'\7-''' "^ "" '^'"^^ '^"^ legislature instantly legali/L no payment at all ' leavTn]^ ' ' !","."" "'^ ^ '"""' ^^e specie of their broker with their owrnotes or fnnfh^"" ^' ''''"^y '" ^"^ 'heir hundreds of thousands of dollars o7corntry'ovJr'- ssues IhaU 'hi '° 7'" ^i" *^'''' hence u may be, by A. C. Flagg our sagacfous eomJJroller ' ^" ''^''"''^' y^"" anewLTiLlfLrc?art3'!;rrBr'itl';^'^^ ""^« ^^^" »>^'^^1^« »tock of U. S. securities and invesS Sem in hrlo7r''°" '^''''"' °' ^^"'"^ hold of ad,8sue the money-lend to whom they will or refuse at nWnr^K '?^ """"'y oiher banks, or, at pleasure hirn«<. ih»rn tl^, fu . P'^^^fure— be lenient to Deputy Collector Lyon as^orruptS tic r^J"' ^^"^^ P"''''«he3 time to be utterly ignorant-he sends DpZvrn! t^'''' 'il^ appraisers of his merchants, after thfs Campben had acknoKL.?' °' i^"' ^'''"P''^" ^o convict hribed and periured-jSK R SpnS • ^ '^ "" ?*^ ^^'^ "^" '"'"'^my as being collector inKn informe? for 'h^ '• '' •'""^e^ed from a cashier and deputf credit with an , nJe Sund nf &e ' SS' r^Ief^^'^S 'T ^^'^ °' ^^^''^^ ^^^^n J 152 OUTies, DRAWBACKS, kC. CONCLUSION. Ninth. It is often asserted, and I believe it, on all the information and expe. tiflnce of thirty years' acquaintance with commerce, that, taking the whole State of New York, an immense proportion of the dutiable articles pay no diity at all. Among the hosts of officers of one sort or other, how few are selected for their in- telligence and integrity ! — some such there are — ^just and honorable men — but the majority are street politicians — and Mr. Lawrence, as I have described him, is tlieit | appropriate chief. Are such the men to prevent smuggling — to protect, on out frontiers, and in such a port as this, the fair trader 1 Tenth, There are a great number of cellars, stores, and other places, for keeping bonded goods — articles for exportation, or that may be required for domestic use. With the keys in the hands of street politicians, bar room orators, spring and fall electioneerers, stock-jobbers, and speculators — may not genuine liquors be stored, the spirit exchanged, and a pretended foreign article exported ? The system in use, aa I have seen it, would tempt even brandy and gin dealers to collusion. Sometime] since the United States exported in seven years, subject to drawback (that is, a re- turn of the duties,) a far larger quantity of foreign spices than had been imported! and paid duty. I say nothing of home consumption. Here was the miracle of the I loaves and fishes, in a new form — but were there no wooden nutmegs ? What room | is there for fair trade under such a system ! Eleventh, and lastly. The merchant is not only puzzled by contradictory reports I of cotton crops in Georqria and grain crops in England, and of new tariffs at Wash' ington, London, Paris, and Dantzic, but he has to study politics as a science inor-l der that he may be enabled to form an estimate of the value of the blasts of ap-l preaching war which blow continually in his ears from some quarter or other, j War for Texas, for Mexico, for Canada, for Oregon, for part of Maine, for honor,! for gain, for glory, for slavery or for freedom, or some cause or other, is an unceaa-j ing cry — and beyond the pretext it affords for upholding a vast naval and militaryf force, with its contracts and corrupt patronage, many know not what to make of it.| Perfect and of thirty years' continuance as peace now is, two-thirds of the nationall expenditure is upon warlike objects, and over 20,000 persons are in continual pub-I lie pay as fighting men, or connected with war. The national war tax alone iil nearly three millions of dollars for the State of New York, besides a loss of the| services of thousands of valuable artizans and farmers. In 1839 there v^ere 1 naval captains and commanders, and in 1841 an increase of 57, all on pay. LtJ Maury says that the Ohio, ship of the line, cost under $300,000, and that nearlyT $600,000 were charged in 1839, merely for repairing her. The checks of vetoesj departments, boards, and enquiring committees are found to be no checks at all unless the people who buy goods and pay taxes to the Hoyts and Swartwouts o the day can be waked up a little. Pew men have more steadily opposed extravaJ gant expenditures than the writer, and even natives are willing to permit adoptel citizens to write against abuses, so that they avoid mentioning the N. Y. corporal tion expenditure of 1843-4. What the country wants is peace, a free conventionJ and a people alive to reform and improvement. I have changed my mind both ai to men and measures, in some degree, of late years, and must admit that there ii truth in Lord Brougham's remark, that * a rigid devotion to party forms one of thl most sacred aristocratic mysteries,' and that politicians, when in power, oughl never to forget the prayer (Matthew VI and 13,) ' Lead us not into temptatioi but deliver us from evil.' There are, no doubt, many remarkable incidents in the lives of Messrs. HoytanJ Butler, which the compiler of this work has not had leisure properly to notice, i even advert to — but, in a second edition, or through some other suitable channel o communication with the public, it is his intention to submit copies of several inteij esting documents, (before the sitting of the Convention, should it be detMminef on,) which he deems it advisable /or the present to withhold. His chief object, thuj far, was to shew the necessity which exists for checking the career of a faction « dissemblers who are unfriendly to the vital principle of elective institutions. rmation and expe. the whole State ly no duty at all. lected for their in- .ble men — but the ribed him, is their ; •to protect, on our I )laceB, for keeping , for domestic wl 8, spring and fali uorsbe stored, the system in use, aa sion. Sometime) ack (that is, a re- 1 tiad been imported I the miracle of the I egB? What room I itradictory reports | V tariffs at Wash- i as a science inor- the blasts of ap>| luarter or other,! Maine, for honorj her, is an unceas-l naval and militarjl rhat to make of it. I rds of the nationall in continual pub-l war tax alone ill lides a loss of the! 39 there were 1 , all on pay. LtJ 0, and that neailjf checks of vetoesj no checks at i nd Swartwoutsol ■ opposed extravaj to permit ad _ tie N. Y. corpora I free conventionj my mind both i idmit that there i forms one ofthi in power, ougiil It into temptatioi Messrs. Hoyt an^ Brly to notice, uitable channel o i of several inteil it be detwminej chief object, thuj er of a faction « Btitutiona.