Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-04-17

AFFIDAVIT OF MR. SUYDAM.

AFFIDAVIT or MR. SUDAN.
City and County Of Ne,c York, IS.
Samuel A. SuyAam personally appeared before
me, this day, and on being duly sworn, deposed as
foliows:--
On the twenty of last February, dhe day
mentioned in his letter Of the 27th Mr. Bull, Ser
geant-at-Arms of the New York State Senate, call
ed at my house in Barclay street, and requested a
private interview, which granted; he opened the
conversation by informing me, with marked gravi-
ty, and seemingly deep solicitude for my welfare,
that very stringent bill for the more eectual sup
preston of gaming about to be presented in the
Senate; that il was in his power to prevent its pas
sage, and in all probability its introduction, and
that he would engage to effect that result, provid-
ed he was furnished with the necessary pecuniary
means. These declarations and propositions were
voluntarily made by Mr. Bull, In an easy, business
like manner, plainly indicating that, while he and
his nrompters and copartners in rascaliy were ex-
ceedingly familiar with such negotiations, they re-
garded system of craven, pitiful pllfering. from
the preparation of which the common highwayman
or burglar would Indignantly lecoil as perfectly
legitimate portion of their duties as legislators for
the greatest State in the American confederacy.
Previous to his calling on me was not aware
there was such person as George w. Bull in ex-
istence. Although his first letter to me is subscrb
ed in what he has been pleased to term ssmasonic
confidence did not know him as mason-nei-
Their did owe him any confidence, Or promise him
any immunity. II was not indeed until after he had
voluntarily committed himself rather unguardedly
that he exhibited any anxiety about the matter
shrouded in secresy, and his first apprehension on
the subject believe to have resulted from the mis-
gvi of the more willy and experienced indvd-
uals for whom he seems to have acted. in such del
icate operations, as sort OF outdoor agent or
picker up. The three letters accompanying this af-
f9avit, and endorsed by me, were received as fol-
lows:-Those bearing date February27th and March
nth received from Albany, and that Of the Gath
Of March, dated at the Aston House, in this city,
and embracing the request of Mr. Bull to Senators
Robinson, Johnson and Stone, together with their
reply, obtained from Mr. Bulbs own hand. Those
episties tell their own story. No comments can
add to the nfamy which they unblushingly confess.
A solemn sense of the duty which, as citizen
owe to society, coupled with the earnest sOicita-
tions of those in whose purity and sound judgment
implicitly confde, alone prompts me to the course
am now pursuing.
Mr. Bull informed me of several large sums of
money which he had received in this city for the
purpose stated in his letters, from persons whom
well know, but whose names do not feel at li5er-
ty to give, unless necessary to subserve the ends
OF justice. He expected to receive five hundred
dollars from me, and he said this, together with all
the rest collected from other sources, was for the
remuneration of the other parties to the transact
ton in both branches of the Legislature. His own
compen sation, which presume he intended to be
the weighties item in the BILL was yet to follow,
and 1t is barely possible that his modesty would
permit him to name the amount to which he deems
himself justly and eminently entitled. Ifcaed by
the Senate, stand ready to testify at its be-
fore any committee which it may deem proper to
appoint for the purpose, to all the facts and details
of the whole base aud infamous transaction.
#E S. A. sUYDAM.
Sworn before me, March &c, 1851.
A. c. KINGsLAND.