New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-14

lie, am 70 be Compiled in violation Of my oatn OF
hdeliiy,io conceal their msccndu'i or re h.u.f .Ji
diving m country warning, Those VINO think % fiOIu
,.s fnd XII III az the rnoch aucloneeTs IN Roadway,
whose coy trade the Mayors pscard nterleres Win
The Hos,on yLrv Erenhlc ITacele oiOct iih, taAes
th,- v;v Of the Batter ard HOyt exposures
.Psp.-s or leler-, however private and conf aenii.'
s| scs 10 i1l ousiy the pubic Interest," are ~ ns"'
uir property. whatever insnn.r me PUBIC NAY Dole
VI aeia TfessOa and conspiracy a-anrt y'
gefnent ) Tsy plotted 10 stcfe aei u.
correspondence II such correspondence bg nance n-s
The eye good aud faithful crzen, be- not only lsnhrd
IN revealing H. but would BE- chPsDe u o" yea ~ 90 so
II j. he immortality Of tie confidential correspondence,
which determines the prOprey VI disclosing ~ ~ pfofl
dent ally falls cut Of private ninds no" ia NAY DC es
haue 10 SEEK and obtain such correspondence by
stealth must be determined BIZ circumstances
n this view is correct, think there can be no ground
OF complaint against the author OF The recent exposures IN
New Yos. The correspondence ceutz ID The nature
Of the case-ie publication Of which j. charged upon Mr.
Nacker ze violation private dghs does really concen
,nd eEdauger The public veal ldey-Ope fraud and corfu
ton IN the n4na Of public affairs and exposes Pnn-
cpes IN prominent public which hreatenihe very oaS-
daOus Of Government Oar institutions could not ong
exit under the influence Of zach perdiou. -eishnes such
base corruption have characterized the movements OF
these SewYOr politicians. II The publication OF uese
VIII have the effect Of opening the eyes OF the people
70 the essential duty Of drrgarding Ell Claims 70 pupe
Office or t'usi but those o. virtue Honesty ma ~
may have occasion, instead Of cmnalng ihe ano. oi
the publication 10 bless io y re frolnehce y -
have been strangely preserved. and to regard uoc
beneactor the individual who from patriotic OF SOM V
er motive has exposed them to public Observation
see il stated in the NewYork Herald that after had
twice told Mr. Henry Ogden that several curious docu-
mcnis lett by MIR Hoyt were among the Custom House
lumber and he had twice told Oyt the latter refused 10
reclaim ihem Why did he take away bis desk and pa
pers from the Custom House when mr. Van Ness took
office and leave John Van Burcns letters among gov.
documents in Custom House pubic oosi II
he did not want them pubishedf lie had no private
box, he had sealed package he had nothing marked
pirate. now remember il Mr. Everett who show
ed Hoyis book with the character OF the officers,
from which have quoted in page -. returned u 10
him IL sets Jeersons notions about inter'eIehces al
elections, at defiance. 49,
Let next consider the question whether the puoh.
cation Of Butler Co.'S letters in book was warranted
by the laws and usages Ct this and other countries
The Evening Post, from 1902 up to bieDi"orth pa
pers, is filed with such matters Even IN war, tsce inc
Post ofDec % 1910 the confidential letters OF Governor
Tompkins to General Armstrong and dropped by the
latter are published by Coleman without AN apology
Ia the Basntyne controversy the letters Of living and
dead got into print SO the death OF George 4th
and when the difficulty took place involving the Duke OF
York and Mrs Clarke Sir Francis Head, when ne re-
turned to In gland from Canada made up his private cor
rspondence secret dispatches and confidential letters
into a book-prosented il 70 John Muuay-and II went
through four editions by tn, way, ne grumbes be.
the Government was anxious 10 confer nohoi ana
distinction on a Republican called w. l.. Mackenzie
The press of the Union during eight years have surely
punished that individual enough for his attachment TO
elective institutions. II wholesale abuse and insult would
effect a cure. he might be discharged.
In the Diaries and Cores pOndence OF LORD Mathes'
bury the confidential secrets ofhc Crown are ireey us
closed Queen Carolines habits aud character obtained
trusted 10 the Embassador laid open. IN MIR. Rushs
Narrative of his Residence at London an Envoy. he
gives secret conversations diplomatic correspondence
and other very private communications without official
leave. Messrs Ewing, Bell Badger &c. when they LETT
office, stated such Cabinet proceedings Ms were essential
explain their conduct So did r. Smith, Secretary OF
State, IN ISL.
Torn 10 Twisss Life OF Lord Eldon and you will
letters of George ILL., in print which the face OF
them never intended for the public. The same may be
said Of much that ind IN these volumes Senator Alien
proposed the United States Senate that all Executive
business except Treaties should be open. before the
peope--and the hUeHiHR Post denounced the present
system tyranny, because under men charac'
icrs may be sandsred dishonest votes gwen aio ihe
senators remain uncomfortable despos as any olgarch
that lived Messrs Van Buren,, Crawford and Cam
brecngs disclosure OF the discussions of MI Mon
roes Cabinet where Mr. Calhoun was to be injufiousy
affected with Jackson and Mr.. CanbfoleIes letter 10
Hoyt about Webb, are like the Genworth affair, Van
Buren, precedeDts. do not like them and would not
have followed them
In 1916 Thomas Richie, in the Richmond Enquirer,
slsndered and illuminated Colonel William Duane OF the
Aurora Exposing the roenncss of certain pretended
Democrats of his time Colonel Duane replied tcept
1870:
alt is avowed by the Richmond Enquirer. n Rtchir
that the Government Of the Uuted States is Gorernntby
iiud fault the Of thu
Government however c"Pabe corrupt or oted Is To ior
et the lille oi one OF the party and MAT 10 dciend lc par
against the evidence OF the and moral evidence oil
Kind, Is The meaning which the party attaches to Ieoc
fdcy IL Is avOwed by the Enquirer Thai any Ehitor
who dsres 10 investigate public measures as 10 ex
public abuses snd conceptions and the ocspacty and
the violations OF justice and hberyhis paper ought not any
longer To be called Democratic paper. To what
mnliaing says Col Duane must ihs intellect OF The
Vignians be reduced whose morning amusement Is the
perss Of This selconvcied sycophaut and tool of party
No one could expect that Thomas Richie. whom Col.
Duane truly described in lsl6 the sycophen and
tool OF party, would do otherwise than deny that my
book contained any evidences OF Official corrupi6n Inc
hook was by w. L. Mackenzie, an Richie unbidden,
bestowed six columns of The Union upon it, My letter
The Tribune pointed out ISLANDERS and calumny adopted
10y Richie but he would retract none OF them because
he was, lsl5 in lsl6 the sycophsn and tool OF
party He is poor, seryile and cOrrupt-necds the
public printng-wl descend 10 any to obtain 1t.
When the Democrats. in 1886 went for specie cur
rency Richie called them the ra5blc rout and Leg
gett through the columns Of the Evening Post described
his correspondent OF the Richmond Enquirer as po'
htica hypocrite and trckstcr. Judging Mr. Polk by his
conduct in Tennessee his votes Washir gton aud his
appointments to Office Mr. Richie is just the man to do
his dirty work. When turned out he may make con
iession. like Old Blair. that his Union was created by
the will of one President and that II manufactured pub
lie opinion until upset by another.
The Hoyt and Butler book has got into Chancery.
Innocent printers publishers book.bindcrs, and other
mechanics are kept out OF their money-rsdesmen are
prevented from scllinghesvy law costs are created
annoying delays nierposed-lawyers have TO be re-
tanned and why To give Jesse Hoy the profits Of
benjamin 7. Buffers account Of his own honesty ms
Washington and Warren banker-which profits w. l..
Mackenzie though poor aud exile dsd0ined TO touch
Have the Chancellor and his assistants virtual censor
chip over the American press in defiance of the u. :.
Ouhsuiuilonf Can wealthy men, by inlunctlons ana
Chancery bills and appeals from Vice Chancellors at
New York to Chsnceors at Saratoga, with delays and
law costs. actually smother and s,iie any work which
would give the people light TO their knaveryi Look
70 IT, ielowciuzens-ihc Convention may provide
remedy.
In the journal OF the Rev. John Wesley, dated Dec.
q, l74i, there is passage which runs thus
called the Solicitor whom had employed in the
suit lately commenced against IN Chancery and.here
fret ths, foul monster, Chsncery Bu scroll
% forty two pages large folio tel story which need
have taken up forty lines Ard stuffed with such stupid
senseess improbable lies (uany OF Them too quite foreign
10 the question: believe would have cost the compiler
his life any heather court either Of Greece Rome And
this is Equity IN Christian country This is the English
method Of rcdressing grievances
have not yet seen Ben Butler and Jesse Hoys foul
monster as Mr.. Wesley calls chancery bil-but am
told that it is 70 be discussed of these days before
Mr. McCoun II was Mr. Butler that ioised the Eng
lish ChanceIy Law into revised statutes.
n6yt told declares in bis bill that he had the
elusive light to publish Buffers letters IA Butler wrote
them think he had still better right. Under the cir
cumsianccs IN which Hoyt and Butler leii the Custom
House and District Attorneys Office and the letters
LETT open IN charge OF the public IN public Office.
think had the best right of all SaEs P1Pnh the pub
lie SAFETY the highest object of law the sautsry rn
cplc on which acted As 10 the papers, they were al
ready in possession Of the public loyt had abandoned
them.