Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-11-20
MACKENZIE,S BOOK.

AS there are many persons, says the New York
Express, Mt a distance from tho place Of publlca-
ton Of tins celebrated book, who VIII never know
lis contents except through the newspapers, and
then imperectly, it would well for the press gen
orally to state that, in connection with other works.
it dscloses the following facts:
lSt. That for twenty five years the State of New
York has been under the control and in the hands
of a body of men who hive openly upheld and car
ried out measures producing at times great dis
trcss and general bankruptcy, destroying the prop
crtv of the widow and the tatherleis, when these
very men were convinced, and admitted, privately,
that these measures hostile to the interests OF
the country.
%. 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 in
sti.ulion was unconstitutional. dangerous to the
liberties of the people, and hostile to republican
governments they were connecting means TO char
Ter another bank OF the same kind, to be establish
ed IN the city of New York.
Sd. That in their confidential intercourse with
each other, they condemned the measures which
they publicly approved as Legislators and rulers
lth. 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
enl in view in their whole political course, was TO
make money by gambling with the means which
their position furnished them.
Oth. lhat WINE tlley were engaged III pONuCal
hostility to banks, they were constantly increasing
their number and charters and one Of them, who
was, on account of this hostility, chosen 5y M.
Van Buren, as Sub Treasurer Of the city Of New
York, (Stephen Allen) recommended the charter of
n poliuca! bank the profits Of which were in part
to be devoted to political purposes, aud in main.
tanning the ascendancy of the Loco Foco party
9th That they had the utmost contempt for the
people of their own party, and considered them as
mere dupcs- instruments IN their hands for the ac-
compllshment Of their own confessed purposes OF
selfishness and baseness
9Th, That their gambling and betting on cleo
tions, and their ultra measures of plunderng were
successful until they net with tremendous losses
in their Wallstreet operations and wagers on the
elections Of $40, when they found it impossible
any longer to save themselves, and through Jesse
Hoyt they sadded these immense DEFICIENCIES upon
the government, and lett lloyt, probably with his
colsent) to be the scape-goat
9Th. That at a time Of almost unequalled pres
sure in the money n0rketS%hen the government al
| Washington had their drafts on the New York Gus
tom House dishOnored these men had of the mo-
MES of the United State nearly half million o.
dollars with which they were gambling, by raising
and depressing stocks, unfolding insolyent banks
! and furnishing means to carry on the elections
and that the government lost nearly the whole o
| this money.
9th. That nearly all of the men named in Mae
| kenzies book as prominent in these matters (that is
thirty out of forty now high in Office, and il
the confidence of the party, and control the ap
pontments at Washington.