New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-14
THE TRIBUNE.
The Aathor'- Apology for his Lives OF Hoyt
Hud Butler.

cmWhen the great DR.. Franklin obtained III
nodon The private nd confidential letters of Amer
.Goyernors Judges and ether false friends TO their
cogptry. lHutchcson Oliver. Paxton, &c he sen,
,hsn 10 Massachusetts for publication, wlthopt me
,os,ent either IF The pcr,ters or the persons 10 cho"'
49,. r,re a.fdressed and the Tory officials OF Eng
nd and the Colonies, with their sycophantic edit
90 .bused and illuminated him for doing after
.re,,y much the same fashion as that in which
uessrs. Richie, Croswe, Noah, Green, and other
miserable hirclings and parasites OF faction, SANDER
90. soruncloakine such pretended Democrats as Al
Icn Butler, Cambreeng, Hoyt Lawrence Phelps
and the Van Burcns. When Sir Francis Head ar
,ivsd as Governor at Toronto, he mentioned to me
The King had told him 10 communicate the sub
.,s,ce Of his instructions to the Legislature. per-
susded hin to send them tie rhole-set all the
clcrksor the Assembly to work ying-despatchcd
sdupcatc TO Mr.. Papineau for Lower Canada, and
has s,op the vote for supplies, until an aborve at
,empt al revolt there ended in open military despot-
i'm Had Lord Glonelg been honest and str aight
for.srd he would have had no trouble, and would
have been TO this hour a citizen Of Toronto.
Cromwell once remarked, that that Government
was surely a contemplate one which could not
sand uaper shot. He might have added that no in
dividual whom newspaper abuse can put out of
,em,er ought TO enter the political arena III tins
.cribbling type setting age ii Van Buren, aud But
er can stand my pamphlet, promise them not TO
aasneI with the angry TRADES OF the Argus, News,
and Evening Post
The imoorlance of the State Convention Of 1916,
10 the future welfare of the American | mon, can
scarcek be overraied Ia the language OF the Jour
nal of Commerce my pamphlet should =" be unlver.
sally read that pcople may know what pontical
Patriotism il made Of how Is got up aud sustained
and for what ends" The electors Dis tau should have
each COPY but three shiings is by far too high price
for very many persons 10 pay What is there to hndeI
sixpenny edition. in news form, hdapted 0r universal
ejaculation from being got up at once suitable Tor tne
mails Could not the octave edition be now offered Tor
less than 31l cents No wants any proh out OF the
affair bat Mr. Jesse iioyt
To those editors who ASSERT that have changed my
POLITICAL principles beg state that am as heretofore
an promising Democrat and my book ~ proof
that am for every line OF II IS Democfac but wh"
can read my narrative OF the Hoyts Van Burens and But
er without acknowledging that such persons as they
are assume the Democratic garb, as hypocnes do the
cloak of goodness the better To conceal their ueachery
a. Republican Institutions With such can have no
fellowship turn them over 10 your able and effective
correspondent Calvin.
As promised through The Tribune. an apology for
the publication Of my book hope you will make room
for the following remarks
There plain questions involved IN the ACT OF
copying for publication the Hoyt and Butler papers-v2
Was fair straight forward manly act such as an
honest man ought be proud Of or the contrary and
Was II an act warranted by the laws. customs, and
usss,s OF this and other countries
With regard the fret branch Of the enqu whether
it night to make public these papers, my views are
these
Suppose clerk finds among his employers papers
weldgesied plan by persous high III his master conn
dcnce dciraud him-with other plans, showing mat
he has been already deiraudcd by these persens-and
suppose tins Clerk Ia remain silent and allow ne guiy
individuals TO 70 and do much more mischief when
had he warned his employer they wo5ld have been
checked in ime-would not his conduct be iaithless.
and very reprchensibcf Is he not as bad us the
knres whose vlainy he has thus cloaked
Such my case did not seek the confidence Of
hoyt Butler, Van Buren,, &c. received none OF H. !
betrayed secrets for was entrusted with none But
while IN apubc Office. belonging TO the people OF me
United States found the evidence of knsveiy dupci
", fraud aud dishonesty. by which my employers had
deeply suffered aud Were likely 10 suffer much more
and that fraud and knsvery fastened publicly 10 ex'
pose AS was in homer bound 10 do. did II IN The form
efspubic book, to which attached my name as the
compor-skuking from responsibility but counting
enquiry. took profit or advantage by the publica-
cation. because though exile for the love bear TO
freedom. and poor, scorned the reward OF an inform
er for hire Mr. HOyt has sworn az am told, that the
letters all genuine aud commenced suit in chan
Gerry 20 rscOrcr NE PROFITS Of he sale am willing 10 be
all know of the quantity printed and that
al others should be who know any thing that
subject Nj Hoyt will consent that the profits shall
20 into the ntcd States Treasury as repayment in
part OF the public moneys which he carried OH weighing
over seven tons in solid silver when he turned
dJhe New.lork Custom House | have also made II
sacrifice Of my employment which resigned by letter
dated Iaoe 3D. 10 take effect the LIST OF July lasi Nc
abuse that may DC heaped will change the impress
sion on my mind, that in the exposure have made an
honorable service is rendered to the country OF my
adoption
Had these letters been addressed 10 mc-had been in.
hoys shoes as the confidential correspondents OF Butler
Cmbreleng, Alien. Van Buren,, Nc.-had Hoyt been my
employer. Collector and these his private, sealed pa
prs--or had been in oyts private employ, writing Tor
nm IN his dwelling where such secret papers are gen
orally kept in his private law Office say moth
ing what my duty would have been in such cases
oui when found some oi the evidences of an age OF
kna'ery among the archives OF the Custom House which
was my duty TO rescue from confusion, and these
forming pat Of the correspondence OF public deiauter
se Mr. Hoyi who had carried of las the jury dcclare)
oeween two and three hundred thousand dollars of the
Popes money, having succeeded his comrade, Swart
won't who had sesqustusied with more than million
~ way Of successful example had no hesitation in ap-
It~ins 10 the country, under the form OF a memoir OF
s0,ne VI the offenders Q
Had been in Mr. Hoyt's placc-had these per sons
oeen ny oorrcp0sdcafs think could not have exposed
,ees elters When was tried for endeavorng 10 add
Nehsaa 20 the Union possessed letters that would have
puhe prosecution 10 shame but chose rather TO endure
sss"eite months imprisonment than mention them
"hec l.. ID. siamm ransacked Bn gsgaie for terms Of
personal abuse of me, in 1913 the publication OF one OF
ns private letters would have senced him, but did
even Nedc to thcn Ia the Of the last - years
"cn nave tcNNnsiNtiy trusted IN matters
fpeisonsl and political interest but dono remember that
'eser published private confidential letter addressed
70 " shown me In confidence. except one of very little
interest. which MIR Gait the novelist had sent ne-and
Even TIA, was wrong letter Of Mr. Hame's 10 mel
vas severely anmadverted on by Sir Robert Peel and
'ee London Times, but that was not private one nor
Intended to bc 50
Hound the proofs Of Butler & Cos knay,ry IN The
fSoss gossossl0R-in public bGlidns Of theirs which
80 COS, them million Of dollars. Had | concealed
e'e proofs and allowed Butler to pass the Senate with
vssoserns protest his future misconduct would hsye
zen as'y aid ct my door Do not those who blame me
W publishing the truth In This case seek to screen pub
% ana private krsyery in all time coming By threaten
stain servants nIhey do not rosues harmless
.an not agreed to be the depository of dishonest
s.ee' when accepted cerkship in public Office
- never slept out of my department 10 seek
s'ee Z" aay kind To have concealed the letters would
eeen to agree that the fountain Of public justice
Ts ra ioinain impure. bad made such contract
,.,S,. e',efs were open They msSed up with the
80 80 occumeuis-I could nor AeiT rsddia9 tksu They
s aV business there had Mr. Butler any business
as s me young PATRON tipsy. keep his good money
w ehu .lm back with thai which was bad.
1870 'ne men who exposed the traitorous cores
sh 1870 found IN MAJOR Andres boots bameshlef So Il
u 20 read such whitening exposures of political
such shocking exhibitions of yenslity chica.
rs~ y ocfisy aud irsud" says the Commercial Adver-
.lss. Aa1 charged fioyt. Van Buren,, Butler and their
No. sars before with very bad conduct through the