Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-21
csre.pena.nee Of u. WIZ.
NEW YORK, July I,

NEW YORK, July is,h.
Asyon may have lately seen in the two officials
New York Herald and Msdisouianl Of Mr. Veto
Tyler, glowing descriptions OF meetings Of IN.
friends Of the Administrations in some Of the wardl
OF this city, will, although I am not = politician
give you a faithiIl account Of them. IL is untru,
/, that any OF the meetings were large a. represented
and It Is equally untrue that they were composed
OF the most respectable citizens; aud in saying this
| DO not speak from personal observation. but m,
information is derived from the most reliable sour
ees. That there were meetings, i~nst,ga,ed 10y sons
OF the ofhce-holders, and those who are candidate;
Tor Office, for the purpose of supporting Capt. Tyler
n his outrageous conduct, there can be no question
aud doubt not there will 10 more OF them; bat
that any respectable man In The city has attended
them or viii attend them, (save, OF course, office.
holders and dependan,s) | utterly deny. The meet.
'nes were all small, aud generally composed Of some
OF The i''ssst Loco Foeos, 'rag, tng aud bob tall
The las, meetings were all gotten ny, I hear. tc
please the poet or the heir apparent, who, it is said,
came on for the purpose Of experimenting the c.
tablishment Of a newspaper, which promises TO sup
port papa" but rs you remarked the other day il
tho Whig-"Major Noah is very uncertain" and o.
soon as he l~quijates the debt he owes the Captain,
Tor relnstaing a cnshiered officer TO the Navy, b.
will be more apt to 90 Tor the Great Kentuckian for
the Presidency than any one else:-It being under.
stood here that the chance OF procuring an Office il
very slim, indeed, unless great court is paid to the
son Of his Aeciisney. learn he il much hwucd
spon and esreSsed, and, suppose. has promised a
great many Offices, to 10 awarded TO such as will
make the mos, noise q, the little Tyler gatherings
The broken.down Loco Focos arc the persons mos.
relied upon by the Captain, rs is cone,usively
shown by the late appointment Of Barnabas Bates
to an office in the Custom House. Barnabas used
to be a preacher; then a Clerk in the Post Office
which he used freely TO forward all of Gen. Jack
sons tyranny and plans. After losing his place in
the Post Office he was a sort Of loafer or hanger on
'or a time-then had something to do with the ma
nagement OF a paper that supported Com. Stewart
Tor the Presidency. Failing in this, he next be,akes
himself 10 Washington City, where, by writing a
few paragraphs for the Madisonian, or %aatiering the
boys, he managed to induce Capt. Tyler to prOvide
for him, and it is said and believed, he returned to
New York with an order on Mr. Curtis, the Collsc-
tor, for an Office. and 10 now pretending to he q
weigher n, $500 per nnnun, but it is generally be.
leved he is 10 act as the drummer up" Of the Office.
holders and dependents, ut all the GREAT gathering
that are in contemplation in this city. The Captain
having thrown himself into the arms OF the Loeofo
cos, Of course no moro Wings will be appointed tc
othce, and when the Senate-that glorious sheet
anchor Of the Nation -adjourns, I doubt not many
Clay men will DO remove d, and ia5erisr Locofocos
put in their places-I say inferior, because the mos
respectable Loeofocos will no, leeep, office under
such a President.
As the great be,rayer' is encouraging Office
holders TO take part in public meetings, especially
If such meetings approve his disrepuiable conduct
why don't you throw in his face, from time to time
a certain manly, independent and patriotic docu'
meni which he caused 10 be published on his eleva-
ton TO the Office OF PRESIDENT In that document,
u my memory serves me. he threatened to dismiss
any Office holder who might take part at any poll.
teal meeting. However, | suppose he omitted TO
put IN a proviso like this-"unless the said meeiings
were in favsr of himself" II there was an omi,
SION an opportunity should he allowed the celebra,-
ed Captain to explain, as his consistency is all i'm
portant. l believe he used 10 be for the one term
system, aud wrote essays and made speeches in il.
hvor, which reininds mo of the remark of Monta-
que, j. e. "To know how a bad man will act when
IN power, reverse all the doctrines lie breaches when
But ! turn from the sad picture. I have recently
seen many intelligent gentlemen, from tho upper
part Of this State, who inform me the people every
where are most ~indignan, at the usurpation and pro-
fl sacy Of Captain Tyler, and that the Clay BanneI
is waving in Triumph. They say the Wings will, q
the November election, have at least ten thousand
n.