The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-10-27
"THE LAST CARD.
CONSPIRACY AND KNAVERY.

"THE LAST CARD"
CONSPIRACY AND KNAvERY.
The long expected " last card" of the expiring
faction of office-holders, is out. Some weeks
ago ii was Swallowed forth by Mr. Butler, the
district attorney of New York, and the Globe
having abandoned all other hopes Of success, has
however, these stupid players showed their hands
before they played their card, il was to be sup
posed that the opposition was ready to meet it.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed The
New York custom-house papers of last Friday,
and the Executive paper here Of Saturday, and
the Boston custom-house paper of Friday con-
tanned the awful last trump. The gamblers,
however, seem to have made false play, and
have beaten Themselves To alter the smile,
their gun has carried wide and kicked its own
ers over p The card has proven knape
II seems that Mr.. Butler, whose pay is "near"
$4,000 per annum, and Mr.. Hoyt whose sala-
ry is $4,000, have, for the last few weeks, been
attempting TO bribe one James B. Glentworth,
to make statements that would implicate Gov
ernor Seward and some prominent Wings in a
charge Of having countenanced frauds in New
York tioo years ago. To help them out in this
last card, it seems, from the affidavit Of Client
worth, that they not only promised him high
office, but to divide their own spoils with him
And as for the accomplish in this plot, (Steven-
son. 1t would give him, if it succeeded, unim-
tod powar with the Administration party And
as for the poor Wings, it would blow them sky
high. This was certainly very fauering pros
pect.
Well TO encourage the already propitious en-
terprise, Glentworth, (who, it is said, is joint
proprietor with Stevenson, of the Office Of in
spector of tobacco-Stevenson the Locofoco,
having resigned it in Glentworth's favor shrug-
ged his shoulders, and gave out to st venson
sundry dark hints and knowing winks, as if he
had the universal Wing party in his power.
Thereupon, Stevenson, Butler, and Hoyt looked
wise and mysterious, and inwardly chuckled
All this related to what Glentworth said he had
done in Philadelphia in 1885, Soon, perhaps
with view Of getting men to vote the Locofo-
co ticket this virtuous Mr.. Stevenson went to
Philadelphia, and palmed himself off upon sun
dry persons there as Mr.. Jarvis, who was anx-
ious to get men to go to New York, (this fact
alone is sufficient to damn all his testimony, in
our opinion we would not believe a traitor and
liar upon his oath,) and, according to his testi-
mony, had sundry facilities offered him to effect
the object so near and dear to his heart. While
in this apparently congenial pursuit Of caves
dropping, falsehood, and reachery. he took
notes Of what he heard said, and, after making
arrangements to receive letters transmitting
names Of voters, he hurries back to his patron,
Mr.. Butler, all agog and so they agree TO organ
iZe secret star-chamber, and receive his affida-
Wit as to what he heard folks say, and what he
might have done, and charge it all TO the Wing
party This is the gst Of the matter of the prn-
cipal affidavit maker employed by the Loco
focos.
All this it is obvious would be too unimpor-
tant to be worthy Of notice. 1t was necessary
therefore either TO prove something more than
the boasting or badinage of some vain or wag-
gish Wing and it was expected that the splen-
did brides would be successful, and that by SUB
oRNATIoN OF PERJURY, some of the first men of
the Wing party in New York might be made to
appear as having been parties TO the fraud OF
bringing some 20 or 80 men from Philadelphia to
watch the illegal voters employed by the Loco
Focos--and that they should prove that these
men, instead of being watchers, were actually
Wing voters. That they expected this is pretty
well proven by the fact that the Boston Post Of
Friday boldly announced the arrest of Gov. Sc
ward, and the flight of Moses H. Grinnel-when
the former was in the extreme western part of
the State of New York, and the latter quietly
pursuing his business in his counting house !!
How utterly they failed in their evident expecta-
tons is shown by the explicit afhdavits Of
Messrs. Blatchford, Grinnell, Draper, Bowen,
Wetmore, &C., which will be found in another
column, and which not only exonerate those
gentlemen from all the charges and nsinuations
of their malignant assaants, but carry the war
into Africa
The following sentence in Stevenson's aff-
davit is the amount Of the matter aimed at the
gentlemen above alluded TO;