New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-29
LIVES OF H0YT AND BUTLER.
I.uer-W. L., Mackenzie to Thomas Richie.

c., A, the Journal under your charge is the svowed
q, .o,, m unicaiion between the United states Gov
eminent and the czens and you hold your situation
az Mr. Blair lid during the pleasure OF the Presden' ior
the time being consider it speedy mode oil punish
ment for the false and very offensive leading editoA
you published my injury in the number Of your osy
series Of the 9th instant snd the caumnies Of your cor
respondents here especially those Of Mr. l. j. Siafnm'
copied into the Union Of the 9th from paper oil MS
called the Gl0b, place your name at the heao Oh i'
i,,e, and 10 invite the public 70 esste your character
according a. you knowing it to be such may sustain he
truth. or adhere for parry purposes to fslsehood
The Morning Ners by Mr. O'Sullivan take to be me
organ OF Mr. Van Buren, and his supporters in this city
tho r,,aing Post is his most energetic advocse-and
both presses are connected with the parties who Will
suffer most seriously by the ciscosures iecoiueu III e
lives of Hoyt and Butler.
La, Tuesdav's PosT states that The pirate papers
of Mr Hoyt have stored away in box in Ticote
room OF the Custom House under strong lock and Key
ckenze about two years ago was appointed 70 scerk
chip under Collector Van Ness and put in the eIclusrs
OCCUPATION Of the room In which Mr. Hoyts ptr0,e and
legal papers deposited II said that oter eirss
vsr, rera0rsd from the room. Al Hacken"s tasioH" va,
h. ni9li indulge his searching propeasdes Hnmofsea
and 20 the full The probability Is. nu.fo7s maj htss
poprs 90 far AZ they genuine hare been sfoH r0a
he bor and so felonously made public.
All this IL untrue but with much personal abuse oil
myself by the fournouthed editor Of the Pos II was
copied spprovingy by me N1os Of "Wednesday whch
bestowed on me all such coarse and vulgar eplthets
from Mr. John Van Burens peculiar vocabulary as the
csse seemed 20 reouire-assured It's readers that us pa
,,on Mr. NJ v B. and others attacked would be raised
.l higher than they have stood before in public res
uec,"-and concluded by saying
a,yc pertectIy agree with more than Wing gentle
man whose declarations been stated that they
see nothing in the book amounting 10 much after all the
dust that has been raised about IL
When Mr. Jesse Hoyt tried not for copying few old
political papers to uncoak and thus rid the public Offices
Of dishonest officials Ja for violation Of MS solemn
oath faithfully 70 perform his duty Collector by the
enbezzlenn Of se2OO 900 OF the peoples money out OF
large iron trunk the house the locks Of which
cost 5000 and the trunk itself 81 800 moreand convict
ed after patient investigation, evidence Of the
cesrest character furnished By himself the Post disposed
Of most important Trial of three weeks in about twice
as many lines-suppressed the whole testimony, deeply
INTERESTING as il was TO the cornmunty-and the Dem
ocratic Review by O'sulivsn, like you. was sieHt
When entries Of goods value to the L. :. $4,000
were purloinod from the naval Office, and their dn-
picaies from the cashiers room, for the benefit Of
Mr. Hoyt and no one eise and to cover by wholesale
fraud part his embe Elements for he had received
the $4,000 in hard cash-not word was whispered
IN anu lGn BureR j0urE0l about this public robbery
but when l. violating no confidence repOsed IN me,
dsregardng none OF the decences or propnenes oi
life acting in no degree the principle that the end
ius'fes the means doctrine abhor and deest come
publicly forward for gain, (lOr like better 10 hunt
the fox than devour its carcass) but TO my own deep
injury forward the cause OF truth and justice winch
others in high trusts have outraged what sthe treatment
meet with Journals ike yours, processing regard for
equal rights threaten with prosecution, publish
fasehood fact Wholesale and refuse TO retract when
conviced-while Mr. Matse Chief OF Police, aided By
the District Attorneys Office. issues s summonses Tor
presons papers and records, examaoe host OF wit
nesses in secret-a of fishing expedition presume
which poor iOyt being pushed forward as complainant
sorely against his will would gladly end in smoke Al
though editors and individuals pretending regard Tor
the laws and protesting belief that have offended
against them aborng day by day. by untruths cpl
hcts abuse and SANDER TO excite ieeling prejudice
and violence in the public mind against me IN the very
Jurors thai may be called try the causes and
thereby throw against me bench themselves have
created and denounced and also the Tiers whose fiat
would decide, am determined TO prosecute none Of
them for libel for never paid nor received dollar IN
that way and have earned character enough 10 stand all
the abuse OF every lying editor in the Union be his party
what il may Moreover am ready to acknowledge in
legal manner that am the compiler Of the book in ques
ton to whoever may feel aggreved and To be RESPONSE
BILE for It's contents and for the manner in which came
by the letters spoken of by editors and If any has
any charge against me let him go before the Grand /
Jury and there show that ! have oifended-l court |
inquiry-lei the truth come OUTLET ii all come out
mention this Mr. Richie, to you now the more /
especially, that | engaged in writing The Lives
AMI Opinions of Thomas Richie, Marin Van Buren,. /
and James Knox Polk with biographical anec |
dotes of their political associates and expect to have
in ashiDeton by the third week in next November, II
health be spared and assure you that II Butler and
IIoy have been found free of abuse and libel
yo, understand it, the unpleasant truths may then have
10 tell will prove unpaatabc even than those in the
pamphlet which has excited IN your breast feelings
which when clothed in words and printed in your jour
nal induces TO pity the government whichneeds your
aid. Party bound by manly principle has done much
good and will do more but when party leaders desert
principle when party editors openly shield dishonest pub
lie servants by lbelng those who have the "a
accusc them and stand by the accusation, and take
the responsibility their object Is and must be wicked
one-they love the spoils than their country.
Let the hundreds of thousands whom my book will reach
before this day month compare the wicked unrnths Of
the News Post Evening Gazette Mirror, Globe Sunday
Times and Atlas. and sun (by Noah) here, the Boston
Post Philadelphia Ledger and your Union speaking for
Mr. Polk aud his Cabinet with the array OF facts have
mafshsled, and they will see what stun you and your
colleagues are made oi-why you abusive and vo-
len-why you wish praise The III doors and abuse me
and why you obliged TO notice publication You
would gladly at the bottom of the Potomac.
Trick and evasion may suit a Van Buren, editor or a
Tombs Attorney scorn 10 resort TO sach deienccs.
Knowing. as do that the apparatus of prosecution IS
IN progress here publicly repeat that feel that de-
serve well of the republic, and court investigation pub
lie and legal with Edmonds or such as him If you will
at the head of it, and j. Van Buren, such he is for
prosecutors You and your allies praise them Dare 10
come before the American people in suit the merits
of their conduct mine and quit your scribbing Sian
der "for consideration Have MT given all the
Gals In my book rope enough
When had published "A letter in last Fridays Tribune
a friend advised to stop writing, Tor, said he, you
have bitter and unprncped enemies they Matching
a prosecution. and you may say something incautousy
which they will take hold Of Let them hatch. Mr.
R,chc-let them send for you TO keep the nest warm il
they tand when their brood chips the she'll III be
ready with food for them As you and your friends have
told your story. I'll tell mine; and shame be to the O'Su
livans Hoy,s Riches, Noahs Ropes and Greens. with
the Posts Ledgers Mirrors and Evening Gazeiies il be
found ight aud they the slanderers
The Records Office consists of four very large apart
menis filled with the invoices entries bonds manifesis
&C of the shippers and merchants. found there pa
psrs embracing transactions of thousand millions
of dollars in amount, in charge Of X. Weber. Of 400
Broadway. and L. J. Everett. | was the junior clerk
with a salary $500 less than Weber Three weeks after
my appointment, Weber, who was a Wing IN politics
came TO in great trouble; showed me letter from
Collector Van Ness dismissng him in few days and
stated that be put his headihai his business
in Broadway he has sshOe storel then very unpro
liable and that his dismissal thus pecedy would
seriously nure him and family dependent him !
replied tho iHsfdBl-"l will take the Jerk
ship from which Americanborn citizen with
dependant family is removed otherwise than for
crime" Here is written statement 10 that
efcct-use H. Go 10 your friends-see the Collection