Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-15
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Harper's weekly relates the following

Harper's weekly relates the following
4 anscdote Of Mr. Marcy: go - /.
/ while he was Governor of this. State
he was visiting nNewburg on some publ,
occasion, and with party of gentlemen
! Whigssand Democrats, was at, the Orange
Hotel. Good hunor was prevailing, ans
one story suggested another. The Cover
nor always enjeyed, q story, and could, tel
one with excellent effect. A Wing lawyer
was present, and the Governor, recognizing
him, said: e. se.,es gsslg y, af,-.4a; s,,s La
| "Ah, yes, I'll tell you a good story o.
Spooner. The other day he came up t
Albany, on his way 10 the wbig conven
ton at Utica. and SO he took it in his way
to call on me to get pardon for a conyic
at Sing Sing. ! heard the case, examiu
ed the documents, and being sati SIZED thai
| all was right, agreed 70 grant the request
Spooner handed me the paper to indorse
and wrote: "Let pardon be granted
NV. L.sMarcy;" when Spooner cried out
"Hold, hold, Governor, that's the wrong
paper!' And sure enough, it was whie
speech that he was going TO make at .Uti-
ca, abusing me the worst possible way
But had granted PARDON in advance, and
| suppose he comlnitted the, offence after
ward" ia H.
The story was received with great APP
plause and Spooner being looked to for a
response, Instantly went on with the foll
lowing, which for an cxtempore story, eer-
tainly is capital: .:- sssu a tta
Eyes gentlemen, yes did. And when
the Convention was over we went to Nj
agara 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
came to dead halt; the driver dismount-
ed, 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
off his hat and said, "Gentlemen, we. al
ways stop here out of respect to the Coy
Eernor; this is the identical spot where
Marcy tore his pantaloons?' arToRas
The story was heard with great lolifiea-
| ton, in which no one Joined more heartily
than the Governor himself. gaal& aea}ai
That pantaloon incident deserves to be
recorded ii every history of this great
man. He was sent out to hold special SEES
sions of court to try the Anti-Masonic par
ties charged with murder. He was to re-
ceive salary and his expenses. With
| that nice regard for details that belonged
to his sterling character, he kept aminute
account of all his expenditures, and hand
ed in the list on his return, without think
! ing it necessary or proper to revise and
strike out those items OF private nature
which other men, less scrupulous in great
er matters, might have carefully suppress
ed. There stood the tailor's charge for
mending. The political foes Of the Judge,
when he came to sbe candidate for Cover
nor, found it, and paraded lit before the
newspapers, and making an efigy of Mr.
Marcy suspended it in the streets of Alba
ny, with a great patch on the pants, and
the tailor's charge on the top of that
| But an ohservant people saw through
the patch and the charge into the heart o.
an honest man, and in that very deed Of
his they recognized frankness and trans
parency of character hat7commended him
to their warm appreciation. It's not prob
able that the pantaloou charge lost for him
a single vote, while it is, doubtless true
that it made for him multitudes of friends
He was never ashamed oft, and never hae
reason to be. 10 dsgos 0iot8 lao so.
l CHARLES SUMNER IN LoNDoN.-Bayare
;, Taylor, in his last letter to the Ny. Tn