Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-09-30
ANOTHER MYSTERY or lSIouITY.


The frs, at,ernp, q tie Wings of New York 10
convict the Democrats OF frand ana crime IL the
last election was thorough; explodcd b. some Of
their own Whig allies. !; WA aii-im;o:taai e
Try anoihcr-ani The press Ct New York are foil
OF the wonirops revelations Of certain book Just
published, entitled The Lives and Opinions OF
Benjamin Franklin Butler, United States District
Attorney for The Southern District Of New York;
and Jesse Hoyt, Counsellor al Law, formerly Col
lector oil the Cusloms for The por, Of New YORK.
with anecdotes or Biographical sketches, &c,
&c; by VIM. L. Mackenzie" 1t consists, in
part, Of what purporis 10 be extracts from mass
Of private leurIs 10 Mr.. Jesse Iioyt, from various
persons more or less rromincn, in politics for The
last FIVE and twenty years; among them, Martin
Van Buren,, John Van Buren,, Stephen Allen, c.
C. Cambrcleng, &c. As 50 many Of The Wing
presses have, in disgust, refused 10 admit the 'un
clean thing into their columns, il is unnecessary
to 90 into the merits OF the subject. TO show the
utter impotence OF This infamous attempt 10 in.
lure the Democratic party, il willie suiicien, to
quote few comments from Wing, Neutral and
Democratic papers, 10 regard 10 The character Ct
the author and the manner in which his produc-
ton was ushered before the public
The New Yolk News says:
mo one will believe in The eenuneness ii AL
| Of these s0.2isana letters While the main buis
and basi, Of them may be genuine The genuine
results of one Of Inc mos, scoundie lhei,s-no ore
can know which Of them, or what passage or
words .. them may or may not be interpretations.
| Such forgery would he scarcely a sensible add
! lion Of either crime or disgrace 10 The theft and
!! publication. Some 81 he persons attacked Mr.
! Van Buren, for instance, this publication oil their
confidential private correspondence is calculated
10 raise still higher than they have stood before in
| public respect There is nothing in any of these,
Tree and open as they arc, in the unsuspsclng and
unreserved conf lence OF such communications.
that any friend Of that gentleman meet wish 10
+! blot. Nor, though he is made The object Of more
/ fierce and nervading venom Of abuse, is there
ANYTHING il he lcrer ascrihed 10 Mr.. b. +. Bnt-
| Ter which that gentleman would hesitate 10 avow
before The world; or which, fairly and truly UNI
d.rslooi would derac; from his long and we'll
earned emincncc II position in the confidence and
| regard OF The country The same is true in re-
gard to the other more prominent persons into
| whose letters we have looked: and we perfectly
| agree with more than one Wing gentleman whose
declarations have been stated 10 US, that they see
nothing in the book amounting 10 much, after all
/ the dust which has been raised about il. The
I letters, as published, are private-iree and care
4 less correspondence, running back for nearly
thirty years-incluiins hundreds Of matters who'll
4 ly disconnected from politcS-even some from a
! lady-and, on their own mere showing, Stamping
with The lowest degree Of shameless rascaily The
publisher and his aCcompliccs or promplers.-
! Who these latter are, is yet TO appear. When
discovered, il they have ever before pretended 10
the right OF aSsociains with gentlemen, il is very
certain that none will ever again permit Them the
privilege"
The New York Evening Post says: 1--WE think
we have never heard OF a meaner or more deSpi-
cape piece of knavcry than has been resorled 10
| in procuring and printing these documents. The
editor insuuaes that they were seized BY the
Pondex,er commission and transmitted 10 Wash
inglon, where, by some irexplicatle chance, they
were brought to light Yet this We have au-
lhorily Tor saying, is positive ialsehood. The
private papers of Mr.. Hoyt have ben stored
away in a box in private room OF the Custom
House, under strong lock and key. Mackenzie
about two years ago, was appointed 10 clerk
ship under Collector Van Ness, and put in theex-
elusive occupation Of the room, in which Mr..
Hoyl's private and legal papers were deposited
IL is said thai other CLERKS were removed from the
room a! Mackenzie's instance, that he might in
dulge his searching propensi'ies unmocsied ant
TO The full. The probability is, therefore, that
these pa pers, 50 lar as they are genuine have
been stolen irom the box, ana SO feonously made
public"
The New York Evening Gazette, neutral pa
per, dencunces The publication as infamous. "
and takes it for granted that mr.. Hoyt, whose
private property has been thus fclonionsy OBJ.
tanned, will feel compelled, as citizen, 10 resort
10 the course which The law provides for The
punishment uf felons and robbers"
| II adds 1t is no apology for such an outrage,
! that like ouragcs have been committed before
like in kind, but not in desree-lor, unprincped
as have been many publications heretofore Of pri-
vate papers, it never has ccurred that the whole
OF an individuals private and most confidential
papers, through an active career Of more than a
quarter Of century, have been nefariously OBJ
tanned and spread before The world. Ii The public
press generally-if the public sentiment do not
| reprovs this telonious publication, there is no