Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-10-18
MACKENZIE's BOOK.

As there are many persons at distance from the
place of publication of this celebrated book who
will never know its contents except through the
newspapers, and then mperfectly, it would be well
(says the New York Express for the press generally
to state that, in connexion with other works. it dis
closes the following facts
lst. That for twenty-five years the State Of New
York has been under the control and in the hands
of body of men who have openly upheld and
carried out measures producing, at times, great dis
tress and general bankruptcy, destroying the pro-
perry of the widow and the fatherless, when these
very men were convinced, and admitted, privately
that these measures hostile to the interests of
the country.
I'd. That while they were originating and con-
summating the destruction of the United States
Bank, and, in the Legislature at Albany and in
Congress at Washington were declaring that that
institution was unconstitutional, dangerous to the
liberties Of the people, and hostile to Republican
Government, they were concocting means to char
ter another bank Of the kind to be establish
ed in the city Of New York.
3d. That, in their confidential intercourse with
each other, they condemned the measures which
they publicly approved as legislators and rulers.
4th. That they were in the habit Of using their
offices and political power to turn the elections, by
means OF betting on the result; and that one great
make money by gambling with the means with
which their position furnished them.
9th. That while they were engaged in political
hostility to banks, they were constantly increasing
their numbers and charters and one of them,
who was, on account of this hostility, chosen by
Mr.. Van Buren, as Subtreasurer of the city of New
York. recommended the charter of bank, the pro-
fits of which in part to be devoted to political
purposes, and in maintaining the ascendency Of the
Locofoco party.
9Th That they had the utmost contempt for the
People Of their own party, and considered them as
mere dupes-instruments in their hands for the ac-
complishment Of their own confessed purposes Of
selhshness and baseness.
7th. That at time of almost unequalled pres
sure IN the money market, when the Government
az washington had their drafts on the New York
custom House dishonored, these men had OF the
moneys OF the United States nearly half million
OF dollars, with which they were gambling, by
raising and depressing stocks, upholding insol-
vent banks and furnishing means to carry on the
elections; and that the Government LOST nsorly tho
whole Of this money.
9Th. That nearly all of the men named in Mac
kenzie's book as prominent in these measures
that is, thirty out of lorty--are now hiob IN of6ce
and in the confidence of the party, and control the
appointments at Washington.
The effect of these disclosures on the Wb;o
party has not been to place these men in any more
unfavorable light than previously, nor have the re-
veaiions created surprise generally. The effect on
the Locofoco rank and file, at first was chagrin al
the discovery that they had been the mere dupes
and tools in sincerely upholding and applauding
men, as preachers in politics, when these preachers
were admitting, behind the curtain that they had no
sincerity in what they preached, and were laugh
ing at the ease with which they gulled their deud-
ed followers. But they felt and feel far more anger
towards Mackenzie, as the instrument Of their ex-
Posure IN being thus duped, than towards the au-
thors Of the mposture.
AS to the question Of the morality Of making the
disclosures, and the dispute about private cores
pondence That IS matter for the parties 10 settle
win Mackenzie. The public are not to be divert
ed from the disclosures themselves by discussion
on this point. The widows and orphans who. i
thousands, were left homeless and penniless by the
hypocrisy and knavery Of the Albany Regency.
will here find recorded the confessions Of the a,
thors Of their suferings, and the wickedness of
their motives in producing them,