Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1845-10-16
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THURSDAY MORNING, Oct. l6, 1915.
Mackenzie'S Book.

she'S o'o ""Hy Po'sohs ot o's'ahSc
from the place Of publication Of this Gel
ebrated book, who will never know its
contents except through the newspapers,
and then imperfectly, ii would be well
for the press generally TO state that, in
connect ciion with other works, it discloses
the following facts -
Ist. That for twenty-five years the
State of New York has been under the
control and in the hands of body of
men who have openly upheld and carried
out measures producing, at times, gre
distress and general bankruptcy, destroy
ing the property Of the widow and the
fatheiless, when these very men were
convinced, and admitted, privately, that
these me- assures were hostile 10 the in
teresls Of the country.
Cd. That while they were orig in aiing
and concentrating the destruction Of the
United States Bank, and in the Legis-
ln,ure at Albany, and in Congress at
w ashington, were declaring that that
institution was unconstitutional, danger
Gus to the Liberties of the people, and
hostile to republican government, they
were concociing means TO charter another
bank, Of the same kind, to be established
in The city of New York.
3D. That in their confidential inter-
course with each other, they condemned
the measures which they publicly ap-
proved as Legislators and rulers.
4th. That they were in the habit Of
using their Offices and political power to
turn The elections, by means Of betting
on the result, and that one great end in
view, in their whole political course,
was to make money by gambling with
the means with which their position fur
nished them.
5th. That while they were engaged in
political hostility to banks, they were
constantly increasing their number and
charters and one Of them, who was, on
account Of this hostility, chosen by Mr..
Van Buren as Sub Treasurer Of the
city of New York, (Stephen Allen) re-
CONNIE nded the charter Of n political
bank, the profits of which were in part
to be devoted to political purposes, and
in maintaining the ascendancy Of the
Loco Foco party.
9th. That they had tho utmost con-
tempt for the people of their own party,
and considered them as mere dupes-in-
sirumenis in their hands for the accom-
plishment Of their own confessed pur-
poses of selfshness and baseness.
7th. That their gambling and boti"g
on elections, and their ultra measures OF
plundering, were successful until they
met with tremendous losses in their Wall
street operations, and wages on the cleo
tions OF 1910, when they found it im-
possible any longer TO save themselves,
and through Jesse Hoyt they saddled
these immense deficiencies upon the
government, and left Hoyt, probably
with his consent, to be the scape-goat
9th. That at time Of almost unequall-
ed pressure in the money market, when
the government at Wash ;ngton had their
drafts on the New York Custom House
dishonored, these men had, OF the monies
of the United States, nearly half mil
lion Of dollars with which they were
gambling, by raising and depressing
stocks, upholding insolvcnt banks, and
furnishing means to carry on the cleo
tions, and that the government lost
nearly the whole Of this money.
9th. That nearly all Of the men named
in Mackenzie's book as prominent in
these matters, (that is, thirty out of forty
are now high in Office, and in The conf
dence of the party, and control the ap-
poiniments at Washington.
The effect Of these disc losures on the
Wing party, (says the Express has not
been TO place these men in any more un-
favorable light than previously, nor have
the revelations created surprise general
y. The effect on the Loco Foco rank
and file, al first, was chagrin at the dis
covery that they had been mere dupes
and tools in sincerely upholding aud ap-
plauding men, as preachers in politics,
when these preachers were admitting,
behind the curtain, that they had no sin
cer,y in what they preached, and were
laughing at the ease with which they
guled their deludcd followers. They
felt and feel Gar more anger towards
Mackenzie, as the instrument Of their
exposure, in being thus duped, than TO-
wards the authors Of the imposture.
AS to the question Of the morality Of
making the disclosures, and the dispute
about private correspondence, that is n
matter fer the parties to settle with
Mackenzie. The public are not TO be
diverted from the sclosures themselves,
by disc ussion on this point. The
widows and orphans who, in thousands,
were left homeless and pcnnilcss, by the
hypocrisy and kuavcry Of The Albany
Regency, will here find recorded the
confessions OF The authors Of their sullcr-
inrs, aud the wickcdncss of their motives
IN producing them.
We sec by tho New Orlcans papers that
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