Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1845-10-16
THE HERALD.
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THE Mckenzie LETTERS

THE MCKENZIE LETTERS
There seem, TO be grea, excitement a.
mong the I,ocoiocos Of New York IN con
sequence Of The rccen, appearance in that
city Of book containing the private corrur
pondeuce Of some Of the leaders OF ,hatplry
entitled 'ThcLl,es pnd Opnlens, Of Benjh.
min Franklin Butler, u S District Auor.
ney, and Jesse iIoyt, Counsellor at Law,
formerly Collector Of Customs for The Port
Of New York with Anecdotes orBiograph.
zeal Sketches Of Stephen Alien, jacob Bar
ker; William L. Marcy Martin Van Blu
rem, John Van Buren, f F. Purdy, c. w.
Lawrence, Waller Browne, VI. NJ Moab,
J. G.. BenneIl, SC SC, " and published by
Mr. VIM Nc kenzle, n distinguished Loco.
ioco, and one whom Mr. Van Buren, and
others have pcued and shown tokens Of ar
fec,onate regard 1t is work Of $50
pages, and filled with the private CORES
pondence OF the Leaders Of the Tammany
Hall party, which shows them up in their
true light Mr. Nc kenzie was at the time
a Clerk in the N. Y. Custom House, and
gives this account of the manner IN which
the correspondence tell into his hands
"OnThursday May Is, last, Mr. Gold,on
told me he had orders from Mr. Bogardus,
Asssinn, Collector, TO break open all the
Custom House boxes that were loo KIDD with
out keys, and their con,ens unknown, TO
sort their contents into 5000 new pigeon
holes then nearly finished, If Of use, and 4
not TO send the boxes and their contents TO
the attic, where there are perhaps 200 tons
more Of m,ce laneous records He then
began to force open one Of the Custom
House pine boxes, marked j Il l.
HOYTS LAW PAPERS'-cslled Ed.
gar S,ansbury, the carpenter, (who, with
his brother, John Stansbury and James
Armstrong were working IN the same
apa rlment,) 10 aid him and Stansbury broke
a large screw driver twice, while opening
| IT, This contents, like the contents of nea
ly 200 or 800 such pine boxes, was mix
ture OF papers, newspapers, circulars, prl
sw affairs, lerers from Virginia abou, Mr.,
Andrew Jackson, petllons for offices, and
papers abou, the Gold mines of Polosi. -
MIR Corrvell the other Clerk, came in JUS
as Mr. SALISBURY he'd finished opening 1t
The contents wege turned GU: on the floor
and the first things that drew attention wer,
Attorney General VanBurcn's l9uers abou
his gam bling, Slockjolblng &c. They
were read by all with surprize
nv notions ofthe value Of public ju,,c,
are such tina, | publicly copied the letters
have since printed them, aud shall follov
the matter up the moment the Legislature
, meets, iflIeaven spares my lile,unless NOR
: suitable PRISON IS sooner appointed ms Al
. ,orn~y General Currup' the fountains {
justice TO any people and wba, need the
care for the forms OF government 2
p.
# Had Hoyt marked "prirnle" even on
D., Custom House trunk no one would hav
;. opened lt-und had he sealed up the n
. pcrs and endorsed that they were his pr
0 vste papers ia one would have broke II -
D., As it Is. the case Is very fercnt, and
shall not only be acquired in a law eou
t upon legal grounds but also have We
, diet from society that acted an honorab
;. part
There has BEEN a tremendous sale Of II
work having exhausted the first edition
a very few days. second one has nlrcad
!, appeared, and II IS stated that fifty ihoussr
n copies have bern sold, no,wllhstandlr
ie Iloyt hos sued out an injunction forbiddir
the publishers from circulating it under
- penalty ofslOOOO lie Acknowledges 4
le authenticity Of the Levers, bot says III
were stolen