Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-10-16
Loco Roco Regard for the Sacredness Of
Private Correspondence.


pondence of Butler, Hoyt g. Co., has thrown into
Mysteries the great harmonious democracy The
genuneness Of the letters has been doubted by few
if any, of the party leaders, while some OF the
knowing ones implicated have admitted il. Ben
net Of the New York Herald, who figures some
what conspicuousIy and ridiculously IN the cores
pondence fully admits the genuneness Of the let
tiers, and, as he says only regrets that he ever was
caught in so bad company. BY the bye, what kind
of characters must those letters DISCLOSE when such
men as James Gordon Bennet are forced to plead
guilty, and, while they refuse to blush for the
crimes they have committed, express regret at hav-
ing been caught in company with the men whose
deeds are thus brought to lightl The politicians
who now declaim loudest about the sacredness OF
private correspondence were the very men who
seized, or were privy 10 the seizing Of the Client
worth papers-who broke open the private letter
Of c. NJ Clay and paraded it in all the leading
journals of the party. How really tender the con-
sciences Of such men must be, it is not very diff
cult to Judge. 1t is true that several Wing journals
have forborne to publish the letters of said Hoyt,
Butler g. Co., wishing TO avoid all appearance Of
unfairness, no doubt But whatever these respect
able Wing journals may think or do in respect Of
their own sense of duty in the premises, other pa
pers, equally respectable, have thought aud acted
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liability Of the sanctity of private correspondence,
under ordinary circumstances. But when, by ac-
cdent, man comes into possession Of letters, how
ever privately or conideniiay written, which dis
close on the part of the writers the most selfish and
ambitious designs in respect Of themselves and the
most corrupt aud dangerous tendency, not TO say
conspiracy, against the morals Of community, and
against the stability Of all free, civil Government,
what moral or political duty, we would ask, obliges
that man, as a faithful citizen, to regard the pri-
vale feelings Of these corrupt individuals, or
sprators, as of importance paramount to the exist
ence of all moral and political virtue in the CON-
munity around him, and to the purity and conse-
quent stability of the Government under which he
lives Who ever thought Of violating the Sanetity
of the correspondence Of Benedict Arnold, in max
ing public his private and reasonable correspond
encel We not now disposed to find fault
with those Wing journals who have refrained from
publishing these letters But we do feel to rejoice
that the iniquity Of leading Loco Foco politicians
has been brought to light by their written tes-
tmony, and that the honest millions may now see
aud know the hands that have been employed to
grind and Cypress them. There no longer exists
the wonder that Swartwouts and other public plum
derers flourish unscathed among u.s. when our pub
lie Offices filled with such politicians are dis
closed by Mackenzies book. So glaring aud in-
conference.-the are the contents of tina. book that
the N. Y. Globe, and other leading journals of the
same party, frankly admit the truth of them, and
from all connexion with the men whose deeds are
therein exposed The Globe has this language
A late publication makes some truths apparent
from which the Democratic party should derive
material benefit. II shows that many Of those ele-
vated in public esteem-High Priests in the Tenn
pIe-have been unworthy of confidence and unde-
serving Of trust that men have been honored and
are still honored, whose escape of the just retrbu
ton Of law only their personal faithfulness to
those whom themselves had dragged into the mesh
es of a criminal conspiracy. 1t shows that men
should be Judged by their actions, and not by their
professions Again -
"A few men, set of designing politicians have,
for the last thirty years, brooded like nightmare
over the body polite, preventing that free circula-
ton Of blood, which is necessary for life and
health Life and heath-that very existence of
Society and Government, public virtue must be
sacrificed from fear of exposing to public censure
and correction, and Of wounding the tender con-
sciences Of such men as the Globe describes
But what gives the most udicrous character TO
this Locofoco complaint and sensitiveness. is the
warfare that is now being carried on between two
factions Of this patriotic party. A late number OF
the Boston Post contains long private correspond
ence between Marcus Morton and David Henshaw,
about C. c. Haswell, the editor of the Ohio States
man, growing out of quarrel to which we have
aforeme alluded Henshaw writes TO the Ohio
Statesman, furnishing a correspondence between
himself and Marcus Morton, which the Statesman
publishes. Gov. Morton had been accused of writ
ing letter. or circular, TO Senator Tappan, and
other leaders of the Ohio democracy, prejudicial
to Haswell, and this correspondence was in relation
TO the authorship, demanding of the ex-
Governor denial or an admission that he wrote
the letter in question. The letter containing the
reply to Henshaws demand, the Governor wished
to withdraw the next day. But Henshaw repud.
ates all confidence in the matter, and 10 and behold
the whole appears in the columns of the Ohio
Statesman, the leading Loco Foco organ in the
Yves, Mr. Henshaw, in note to the Statesman
says
4 have little to say of his (Gov. Moron's) views
as to the sacredness of private correspondence
the lecture more properly belongs to his friend
Tappan Nor do subscribe to al
the mawkish sentiment often expressed when some
proud mans ISLANDERS are, to him. Unexpected,
published The time TO blush is tohen such letter.
are loritten, not rhen published. And, surely, pri