New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-24
The Secret Correspondence Of Jesse Hoyt win
Butler, Van Buren g. Go.

We have been through life the open, uns"crV-
ing determined foe Of that school Of Politics and
Politicians distnctivey known as the Van Buren,
school We have from boyhood disbceved it, pre-
tensions to any better Democracy than our own
Ioaihed It's sordd maxims and low ends, and strug-
eled anfully against its ascendancy Our instincts
our Vermont education and our mature conyic-
lions have colspircd to make this warfare very
hearty one on our part But our natural adver-
ssries have ever found Us fair foes. They do not
now. and shall not, find otherwise Yet the
Courier g. Enquirer Of yesterday INDUCES in the
following language with regard 10 our extracts In
Monday. paper from VIM. L. Mackenzie's edition
Of the private correspondence Of Hoyt Butler Co
chi, sound axiom that the receiver of stolen goods
IA no better than the INF and 10 publish any portion Of
these etters would In opinion, put as on par win
the individual who hiss thrown them before the public
ANY Editor who would publish them, would II u 10 be
resumed have done all that Mackenzie has done. Ger
isnly no person pretending entertain tho feelings OF
gentleman could possibly loan his columns 10 such an
inouiious proceeding That some papers have ana VIII
publish them, one can DOUBT VINO i ian1iH win ~
character Of portion of the Press but most assuredy
no respectable Press will thus proclaim ne tdtOr any
thing but gentleman
Now this same Courier & Enquirer did, on the
9th OF April, 1914 publish private aud most con
6deDtial letter written in lsil by the Editor OF tins
paper TO Col Todd Of Ohio in relation TO appoint
ments in this city, and rejecting hastily and some
what barshy on the characters and motives OF lead
ing Wings in this city who had previously, and
have since been our personal friends as well as po
liical associates That letter II was abundanty Ger
tain had been stolen or in some way placed surrep-
,i,iously before the public 1t published for no
other end than to make mischief among Wings,
and incidentally to neutralize efforts at Bait
more in favor Of WILLARD FILLMORE as the Wing
candidate for Vice President By what rule does
the Courier Judge our agency in publishing an eX-
posurc Of Van Burenism by Loco-Foco 80 much
more harshy than iis own efforts to create trouble
among Wings
Whoever looks through the book and sees how
frequently and how creditably the name OF j. W.
WEBB figures therein, with gances at the origin of
the Courier and various events in It's history viii
find one key to the fulminaons Of that paper against
all who publish from the Hoyt Correspondence
We doubt not that there other reasons tor this
course, equally Characteristic.
The Erening Post, more naturally though not
more consistently talks Of our unprncipled use Of
private papers, and goes on
But there aspect on the business 10 WHICH We
are bound to refer We mean the utter and unparalleled
disregard of all and honorable principle by which
the confidential papers Of private individuals are puosh
ed 10 the world We think we have never heard OF
rnesper or more dcspicabc piece OF knavery than has
been resored to IN procuring and printing these docu
men,s"
The Pos, has short memory. In the notorious
Gientworth conspiracy there was much more
despicsblc knavery resoried to- The prime actor
in that conspiracya still honored and most efficient
member Of the Posts party changed his NAME
falsely pretended to be a Wing and went as
Wing with fraudulent letters of introduction to
leading Wings of Philadelphia to begnile them into
revelations calculated 10 blast their own characters
and those Of Wings here. Finally the forms and
sanctics of judicial proceeding were prosttuied 10
promote the intrigue, and great number of private
letters aud papers were seized at midnight by the
Loco-Foco leaders in our City, aud all paraded at
full length in the columns Of the EreHing Pest
with whatever else the gentleman spy had seen TIT
TO to as told him in confidence by Philadelphia
Wings or revealed TO him by his pay demanding
tool here. cfproclaimcd traitor and knave Of the
bases, sort No, even an attempt was made to pro
coed against those Wings who had been struck at
in this dirty intrigue the whole was but plot 10
retrieve an already lost Presidential Election, and
failure at that But who jumped into ii more deeply
or more keeny than the Evening Post
- Now for clencher. The pirate letter Of
Henry Clay 10 Cassias w. Clay, stolen from
table and broken open. ras Published an the Erca-
ing Post Of tie Isl Of October last, ruth the toLior
ing preamble
Ma cLAy's LAsr-Posifirely As the Wing papers
publishing the letter found CsnAlst q ~
reason why should Withhold ii from our readers
Will you have any more. Mr.. Post
How these Hoyt letters were obtained, we do
not know. We find them fairly printed in book.
by man whom though we have ever known him
a. political opponent. we are confident would not
garble them, and who says he came honestly by
them The silence of the reputed authors will as
sure those who need assurance that they genu-
ine and accurately given. Having them thus fairly
before us. in book which we are confident is au-
theniic ought we TO have withheld all know ledge of
them from our readers Would that course have
best subserved the ends Of Political Purity and Pub
lie Good We think not If any party has been
unfairly represented in that portion of the correspond
ence we have published, we are most ready and
anxious TO do him justice. But-these letters being
read at any rate we think il was our RICH, to copy
from as well as comment upon them. Mere com
men,s such as are made by some of our cotempora-
ries might do injustice TO parties where the fair
printing Of their letters could not
Does any man doubt that such body of letters
would be used by any future historian OF the politics
Of this Statel Would they not aid him essentially
IN the faithful performance of his task Could his
work be deemed complete if he did not take these
letters into account And wherein does his use OF
them differ from oursl Nay, wherein does the man
who reads the book with whatever intent stand
on different platform from our own
The Editors of the Post hare authority for
Saying" that Mackenzics account OF these papers
having been sent to Washington by the PoindeNter
Commission, lis positive falsehood.' We think
a mistake would have been the more correct ex-
precision, bu, know nothing the point beyond the
statement and contradiction l, strikes US that il
was impolitc to inierposc contradiction ON point
% very unessen,sl to the public as this unless i,
could be extended to cover a great deal more
T The Wings of Colambia Co met in Conven-