The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-01-23
Nem Fork Correspondence
New YoaK, THURSDAY, Jan. 81

New foRK, THURSDAY, jan 81.
The ruling topic in our political circles is, as
1t has been for the last fortnight, the presump-
tive removal, by the Governor and Senate, of
ROBERT H. MoRRls, from the Office Of Recorder
or Presiding Judge Of the Criminal Courts Of
this city, apd the appointment of Hon. FREDE-
RICK A. TALLMADGE, late President pro tenn Of
our State Senate, in his stead There is no Of
fetal announcement Of the fact; but Mr.. Morris
himself states, in his last appeal to the public,
that Gov. SEWARD wrote him, requiring an ex-
PLANTATION of his conduct on the I'd inst that his
defensive reply was not transmitted ill the 9th,
and that, on the 18th, before il could have reach
ed Albany, owing 10 the general arrangement
of the mails, the Governor recommended his re-
moyal to the Senate.
That removal, the Recorder with Characters
tic delicacy asserts, was doubtless assented to
beforehand by the political majority Of the Sen
ate, and he presumes il was consummated on
Tuesday, the 10Th; wherefore he refused to pre-.
side on that day and adjourned the court. (Our
last Albany advices come down only to the eve
ming of Monday, which is not an Executive
day)
| The reasons for the removal of the Recorder
are plain and strong They grow out of his
participation in the 81 Last Card operations Of
Messrs. Hoyt, Butler & Co. He appears TO
have been among the earliest initiated into, il
not one of the original contrivers of that nota-
BILE explosion. AS soon as it was ready for his
active cooperation, he Gin conjunction with a
Loco-foco Police Justice named Matsell, for
merly vender OF atheist books, and the reveries
/ of Fanny Wright and Robert Dale Owen) con
stituted themselves secret inquision, or Star
Chamber Court, in guarded and inaccessible
apartment Of the Old Sessions Hall. The only
entrance to this den was through another
office, in full Loco-foco possession.
| Here they proceeded to take the dispositions
| of their confederates, STEVENSON and CLIENT
ORTIZ and then to drag in secretly and sepa-
rately the Wings whom these hopeful gentle.
men accused of participating in election frauds
in. 1888, and all others whom they had designat-
ed as likely to corroborate their story. Thus
seven or eight most respectable citizens were
eliminate themselves and each other and
strengthen Git was fondly hoped) the imputa-
tons Of the conspirators. But as they empha-
tcally contradicted the whole story, mutually
corroborated each other, and produced the letter
they wrote in 1888 to Glentworth in Philade-
phia, cnjoining him to do nothing which had
not for its object the detection and prevention Of
illegal voting, the plot was neary frustrated in its
execution.
Another bold push was next resorted to-
Somebody had intmated that GLENTwoRTH's
private papers were deposited at the house OF his
brother-in-law and business associate, PIERCE,
and thither the Mayor and Mr.. RECORDER NOR
RIs proceeded IN person, at midnight, to seize
them. They demanded these papers, and PIERCE
demurring, threatened to search the house i,
thoroughly and take them by force. PIERCE
then gave them up; Mr.. Recorder Morris car
ried them away GLENTwoRTH sued cut writ
of replevin for their recovery but the RECORDER
resisted the process-took them by main force
and violence out the hands of the sheriff, who
had levied on them, and afterwards broke the
seals, read and published them. Such was the
part played by Recorder Morris in this transac-
ton.
The fact that the papers proved of little or no
consequence, is wholly mmateral. For whatpur-
pose were they seized2 What offence TO dis
cover? Whom intended to implicate? Per
sons who had not even been accused OF CRIME
If these acts be justified and acquiesced in, what
right of person or property is safe from instant,
lad fyio latio nd or
AT the December meeting of the Grand Ju-
nv, the Recorder harangued them for two or
three hours in full justification of his conduct
That extra judicial and wholly supererogatory
charge, is the foundation Of the Governors
ton.
In our business circles, things wear brighter
aspect since the triumphant resumption in Penn
syvania U. S. Bank Stock has risen steadily
at the Board every day this week. 700 shares
were sold to-day closing at 81 3-4-an advance
of 3-S from yesterday. There was little change
in stocks generally, though good deal was
done.
The U. S. Bank is gaining in public favor
here since her resumption. Y gu will perceive
that, between its malignity against that Bank,
and its desire for commercial Improvement and
the favor of the business men, the Journal Of
Commerce makes about four tacks week OF
late.
The conduct of the Baltimore Banks is gen
orally rerpobated here.
The news Of Mr. RWEs's election reached us
this morning, and diffused very general Joy
Mr. Rives is personally esteemed throughout
the Empire State and his voice has been heard