The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-08-15

Harpcr's Weekly relates the following
anecdotes of Mr. Marcy: "
While he was Governor of this State
(New York;, he was visiting Newburgh
on some public occasion, aud with par
ty OF gentlemen, Wings and Democrats
was at the Orange Hotel. Good humor
was prevailing, and one story suggested
another. The Governor always enioycd
a story, aud could tell one with excollcn,
effect. A Whig lawyer was present. and
the Governor, recognizing him, said
"' All, yes, I'll tell you good story
of Spooner. The other day he came a.,
to Albany, on his way to the Wing Con
yention at Utica, and SO he took it in
his way to call on me to get pardon for
convict at Stng-Sing. | heard the
case, examined the documents, and be-
ing satisfied that all was right, agreed to
grant t he request. Spooncr handed me
the paper to endorse, and wrote, Let
pardon be granted, W. j.. Marcy, when
Sp0oncr cried out, hold hold, Governor,
that's the wrong paper y And sure
enough, it was Wing speech he was
going to make at Utica, abusing me the
worst possible way. But | had granted
pardon in advance, and | suppose he
committed the offence afterwards
The story was received with great
applause, and Spooner, being looked to
for response, instantly went on with
the following, which, for an extcmpore
story, certainly is capital:
90 Yes, gentlemen, yes | did And
when the Convention was over we went
to Niagara Falls, and as we were drag
ging on by stage over miserable cordu-
rov roads, banging our heads against the
top of the coach, and then coming down
~ if we were to 20 through the bottom,
the stage came to a dead halt the driver
dismounted, opened the door, aud re-
quested us all to descend We did so,
supposjne that some accident had oc-
CURED. When We were all out, stand
ing on the ends Of the logs Of which the
road was made, the driver took off his
hat, aud said Gentlemen, we always
stop here out Of respect To the Governor
this IL the identical spot ,gherc Marcy
tore has pantatooas !"
The story was heard with great joli-
ieation, which no one joined more hcarti-
ly than the Governor himself
- the pantaloon incident deserves TO
be recorded in every history of this great
man. lie was sent out to hold special
sessions of court to try the anti Masonic
parties charged with murder He was
to receive salary and his expenses.
With that nice regard for details which
belonged to his sterling character, he
kept IA minute account Of all his cxpcn-
dltures, and handed in the list on his re-
turn, without thinking it necessary OF
proper to revise and strike out these
items Of private nature, which other
men, less scrupulous in greater matters,
might have carefully suppressed. There
stood the tailors charge fer mendlng.
The political foes Of the Judge, when he
came to be candidate for Governor, found
it, and paraded it before the world in
the newspapers and making an efiigy
Of Mr.. Marcy, suspended it in the streets
Of Albany, with great patch on the
pantaloons, and the tailor's charge on the
top Of that.
!" But an obseryant people saw thro'
the patch and tn, charge into the heart
Of an honest man, and in that very deed
Of his they recognized frankness and
transparency of character that commend
ed him to their warm appreciation. |,
is not probable that the pantaloon charge
lost for him single vote, while it is
doubtless true that it made for him mul-
titudcs of friends lie was never asham-
ea Of it, and never had reason to be"