The North-Carolina standard., 1845-10-01
MAcKENzIE,s PAMPHLET.
From the New York Morning New

From the New York Morning News.
Aboutlhe dirtiest piece Of small knavery that we
have ever heard of in party politics. was perpetrat
ed Yesterday, in the issue of publication under
the name of William l.. Mackenzie, consisting, IN
part, of what purports to be extracts from mass
of private letters to Mr.. Jesse Hoyt, from various
persons of more or less prominence in politics lor
ibe last fiye-andtweniy years. Garbled Gd .libl-
tunp, and plentifully garnished with insinuatln1g
italics and astonishing capitals, and accompanied
with running commentary, freely compounded o.
secondhand mcndacItY and original scurrilitY1-- =
these are spread out by the author, and ushered
forth with congenial relish and pleasure. by the
Tribune, as though they were marvellous ana
vastly-important revelations. What proportion
OF them may be genuine and what proportion
fictitious, we have no means o. knowing nor is
the contemplate pamphlet worth the trouble OF IN
curing. Whichever of them are genuine, were
obtained by felony-by breaking into box OF
old private papers, left accidentally behind him
in the cusom-house, by Mr. Hoyt late collectors
The pretence insinuated, that they were from GER
tain fifteen volumes Of correspondence, taken
possession of by the Poindexter committee, ana
thence, in some unexplained mode, coming into
the hands ofthe publisher, is pure fasehood, and
a mere cover 10 the sill more criminal way IN
which they were procured. The letters, as pub
lished. are privatc-free and careless correspond
ence. running back for nearly thirty years-inciu-
ding hundreds of matters wholly disconnected
from politics-even some from lady-and, on
their own mere showing, Stamping with the low
est degree OF shameless rascality the publisher
and his accomplices or prompters. Who these
latter are, is vet to appear. When discovered,
if they have before pretended to the right OF
associating with gentlemen, it is very certain that
none will ever again permit them the privilege.
No one will believe in the genuinrness of all
these soi-d;sant letters. While the main bulk and
basis of them may be gcnuine-the genuine results
of one of the most scoundrel thefis--no one can
know which of them, or what passage or words
of them, may or may not be interpretations. Such
forgery would be scarcely sensible addition of ei-
ther crime or disgrace to the theft and publication,
The main object of the whole appears 10 be to
aim blow Of i2ant vengeance at number OF
the leading friends OF the administration in this
State the stimulating cause of which is evidently
the removal of the te collector Van Ness Mac
kcnzie was appointed by Mr.. Van Ness to place
in the custom house, and went out Of office with
him. So far as we have looked into it in its ap-
plication 10 the more prominent of those, we do
not see that il is calculated TO injnre them in the
public estimation. Some ofthe persons attacked-zzs
Mr. Van Buren, for instance-this publication oE
their confidential private correspondence is calcut
lated to raise still higher than they have stood be-
fore in public respect There is nothing in any Of
these, free and open they are, in the unsuspect
ing and unreserved confidence Of such coRimunica-
tons, that any friend ofthat gentleman need wish
to blot. Nor. though he is made the object of
more fierce and pervading venom of abuse, is there
anything in the letter ascribed to Mr.. B. F Butler
which that gentleman would hesitate to avow be-
foro the world; or which, fairly and truly under
stood, would dctract from his long and wellcarned
eminence of position in the confidence and regard
of the country The same is true tn regard TO the
other more prominent persons into whose lettersNee
have looked and we perfectly agree with more
than one whig gentleman, whose declarations have
been stated to US, that they nothing in the book
amounting TO much, sher all the dust which has
been raised about it. -.