Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-07-30
ANECDOTES OF MR.. MARCY.

WooL-An anecdote, hitherto unpublished,
may serve to illustrate his pleasant humor.
While he was Governor of this State, he
was visiting Newburgh on some public oc-
casion, and with a party of gentlemen,
Wings and Democrats, was at the Orange
Hotel. Good humor was prevailing, and
one story suggested another. The Governor
always enjoyed story, and could tell one
with excellent effect. A Whig lawyer was
present, and the Governor recognizing him
said:
"Ah, yes; I'll tell you good story of
Spooner. The other day he came up to AL
bany on his way to the Wing Convention at
Utica, and so he took it in his way to call on
me to get pardon for convict at Sing
Sing. 1 heard the case, examined the doc
uments, and being satisfied that all was
right, agreed to grant the request. Spooner
handed me the paper to endorse, and l
wrote, 'Let pardon be granted. W. L. Mar
cy,' when Spooner cried out, Hold, hold,
Governor that's the wrong papern And
sure enough, it was WAg Speech that he
acos going to make IN Utica, abusing me
the worst possible way. But I had granted
pardon in advance, and I suppose he COM
mitted the offence afterwards. n
The story was received with great ap-
plause, and Spooner being looked to for a
response, instantly went on with the follow
ing which for an extempore story certainly
is capital:
eyes, gentlemen, yes, did. And when
the Convention was over, We went,to Niaga-
ra Falls and as we were dragging on by stage
over miserable corduroy roads, banging our
heads against the top of the coach and then
coming down as if we were to 60 through
the bottom, the stage come to dead halt ;
the driver dismounted, opened the door and
requested US all to descend. We did so,
supposing that some accident had occurred.
When we were all out, standing on the ends
of the logs of which the road was made, the
driver took of his hat and said: Gentlemen,
we always stop here out of respect to the
Governor, this is the identical spot achere
Marcy tore his pantaloons p"
The story was heard with great jolli6ation,
in which no one Joined more heartily than
the Governor himself
The pantaloon incident deserves to be re-
corded in every history of this great man.
He was sent out to hold special sessions of
court to try the Anti-Masonic parties charg-
ed with murder. He was to receive sala-
ry and his expenses. With that nice regard
for details that belonged to his sterling char
actcr, he kept minute account of all his
expenditures, and handed in the list on his
return, without thinking it necessary or prop
er to revise and strike out those items of a
private nature which other men, less scrupu-
lous in greater matters, might have carefully
suppressed. There stood the tailor's charge
for mending. The political foes of the
Judge, when he became to be candidate for
Governor, found it, and paraded it to the
world in the newspapers; and making an eff
gy of Mr.. Marcy, suspended it in the streets
of Albany, with great patch on the panta-
looms, and the tailor's charge on the top of
that
A story is told of him and his friend Gen.
Wool, which possesses some interest at the
present time. Forty years ago, Gen. Wool
was dry goods merchant in Troy. Having
failed in his business, was in doubt whether
to study law orpusue some other career; and
having great faith in the judgment of young
Marcy, with whom he was Intimate, he re-
ferred his difficulty to him. Marcy unhesi-
tatingly disuaded him from studying law,
and advised him to apply for company in
the new leyies which were being made to