Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-10-23
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MACKENZIE'S BOOK.


AS there are many persons a, "a distance from
the place Of publication Of this celebrated book
who will never know its contents except through
the newspapers, and then imperiectly, it would
be well (says the New York Expressly for the
press generally to state that, in connection with
other things, it discoses The following facts
LIST. That tor twenty-five years the State of
New York has been under The control and /, tho
haads ot body oil men who have openly upheld
ana carried out measures producing, at times,
great distfess and general bankruptcy, destroying
'he property OF tho widow aud the f,therless
when these very men were convinced, and adj.
mtted' privately, that these measures were hos
Tie 10 the interests CT the country.
I'd. That while they were originating and con-
summating the destruction of the United States
sank, and, in the Legislature at Albany and in
congress at Washington, were declaring ,bu,
that institution was unconstitutional, dangerous
to the liberties OF the people, and hostile TO !,
Republican Government, they were copcocting
means 10 charter another bank OF the same kind
to DC established in the city of New York.
so. That, In their confidential intercourse with
each other, they condemned the measures which
'hey publicly approved as Legislators and rulers.
f'h' mat they were in the habit of using their
ofices and political power 10 turn the elections by
means OF betting OH the result; and that one
great end In their whole political COURSE was to
make money by gambling with the means with
which their position furnished them
ON. That while they We're engaged i'm poli,i-
cal hostility to banks, they were constantly in
creaslng their numbers and charters; and one of
'hem, who was, on account of This hostility
chosen by MIR. Van Buren, as Sub.treasurer of
the city OF New York, recommended the charter
OF bank, the profits of which were in part TO
oe oeVoted 10 political purposes, and in main
tanning The ascendency OF the Locoioco partv
ON. mat they had the utmost coniemnt for
me Feop1e OF their own party, and considered
."e'n as mere dupes-lnsruments In their hands
LOT me accomplishment OF their own confessed
purposes OF selGshnes and basencss
TN. That at a time of almost uneuualled pres-
sure In the money market, when Government, at
washington had their drafts on the New Eorl,
custom House dishonored, these men had of the
moneys OF the United States nearly half million
oil dollars, with which they We're gambling, bv
raising and depressing stocks, upholding insol-
vent banks, and furnishing means to carry on the
elections and that the Government lost nearly
the whole Of this money.
ON. mat nearly all of the men named i'm Mac
kenZies BOOK as prominent in these measures
-ilat is, thirty on. of lorly--are now hinh in
once ana In the confidence OF tho party, and con-
troll the appointments at Washington.
The effect of these disclosures on the WHO
party mas not been to place these men in anV
more uniavorable light than previously, nor have
the revelations created surprise generally The
effect on the Locofoco rank and file, at first, was
chagrln at the discovery that they had been the
mere dupes and tools in sincerely UNFOLDING and
appiauding men, as preachers in politics when
these preachers were admitting, behind the cur
tain' that they had no sincerity in what they
preached, and were laughing at the ease with
which they gulled their deuded followers But
they felt and feel far anger towards Mac
kehzie, as The instrument Of their exposure in be-
ing mus duPed, than towards the authors of the
impos,ure.
AS to the question of the morality of maxine
the disclosures, and the dispute about private cor
respondence, that is matter for the parties to
settle with Mackenzie. The public are not TO
be diverted from the disclosures themselves by
discussion on this point. The widows and
orphans who. in thousands, We're left homeless and
penniess by the hypocrisy and knavery of the
Albany Regency, will here find recorded the con-
fessons OF the authors OF their su!ferings and the
wckedness of their motives in producing them.