The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-20


the means through which alone they can be
done. The way to regulate our system, there
fore, is to regulate the banks; and that can only
he done by general bankrupt law for the gov
ernance of corporations. This would keep the
banks in check; nothing else will
The State Eiection-How the Truth Comes
Out.
BY degreeswe are arriving at the facts touch
ing the rowdyism which disgraced the proceed
ings of the Democratic Convention in Wieting
Hall, and the way in which the truth is coming
to light is highly amusing. We have already
published inklings of evidence showing from
what point the wind blew; and we now publish
something still stronger which can leave no
doubt in the mind of the most skeptical as to
the real fomenters of the riot, and as to what
party hired the fighting men to play their roles
in it. The following is an affidavit of Mr.. Hee-
nan, the celebrated American puglist -
City and County Of Ne,o York, ss'John c. Hecnan, Of
the city of New York being duly sworn doth depose and
say tina, he went to Syracuse to attend the meeting of the
late State Convention out Of curiosity, never having
attended State Conventon and this deponent further
says that before going to Syracuse person holding
office in the Street Department approached this deponen
Syracuse for the purpose Of opposing Mayor Wood
and offered him money to do so and this deponent further
says that while ut Syracuse he the guest Of Isaiah
Ryndcrs, stopping by his invitation with him. and that
said Rynders paid his bill al the Globe Hotel in that city
for the whole time this deponen remained there and this
deponen further says that said Rynders offered him fifty
dollars to take part in the reception or admission Of per-
to the where the Committee met, but that hay
ing funds of his own, and not wishing to be con
spicuous TO take any part i'll any disturbances or
improper conduct, he declined the offer; and this
deponcnt further says, that he took no part in
he IN
received ticket of admission to the Convention, signed
by Peter Cgger, and which was sent TO him from
No. "a in the Voorhees, House, which room was oc-
eupied by said Cagger, and the ticket referred to
was not given him by Mr. Wood by any other per
son by his direction and THIS deponenl further says that
he has been supporter OF Fernando Wood but that
he appointed AT the instance Of Hon. Daniel f. Sickles
to important Office in the Custom House Immediately
under the direction Of the present Surveyor of the Port
which Office he held for three months and then resigned
and further, that he has been offered place under tho
present city government within three weeks which he
also declined and this deponen further says that he is
not politician that he is not adheren OF Mozart Hall
that ne is NOT bully, that he be hired for any
rotous purposes and that he desires TO honestly
living and to maintain good repusaton aud this dcpo
further says that seeing his name in the
connected with the disturbances in an improper manner
he has voluntarily made this statement to shield himself
from any unavorable mputatons against his character
JOHN G. KEENAN,.
Sworn this 10th September, 1852 before me, JouS J.
An GEyINE, Notary Public
In the telegraphic messages sent from SYRIA
cuse to the New York papers, and all over the
country, it was represented that Fernando
Wood and the Mozart Hall party had hired
Heenan and other fighting men to disturb and
overawe the Convention, in order that the ex-
Mayor might carry out his wishes by violence
and brute force. Now the foregoing document
effectually settles that point In the first place
Heenan was approached and offered money by
member Of the Street Department Zone Of the
Peter Cooper faction1 to go to Syracuse TO OPP
pose Wood. Secondly, he was the guest OF
Captain Rynders during his stay in Syracuse,
and the Captain paid his bill at the Globe Hotel
during the whole time he remained in the city.
Furthermore, Rynders offered him fifty dollars
to take part on the admission of persons to
the room; and Heenan was admitted himself on
ticket sent to him by Peter Cagger, and sign
ed by his name. Heenan has never been sup
porter Of Fernando Wood, but. has been in the
political interest of the other side. Captain
Rynders himself bore this testimony in the
HERALD Of Sunday last that "he has no know
ledge or belief that the 'Benicia Boy" or Hee-
nan, was hired by ex-Mayor Wood or the Mozart
Hall party to go to Syracuse and get up
a mnss there AS the "Benicia Boy was the
Captains guest and under his eye in the
Convention, the Captain can speak from the
book when he says that ''what he saw Of him
was more as pacificator than otherwise" OF
course the Captain does not use the word 'pa-
cifcator' in the same Specification as Commo-
dore Stockton called his big gun I" the peace
maker, though it must be admitted that in that
sense it would be eminently appropriate. The
well deserved reputation of Mr.. Heenan in the
fstic art-his strength and skili-his long and
terrible sledge hammer left hand, all combined
to make him a formidable pacificator. But in
Captain Rynders' sense it was neither his left
arm nor his right, but his persuasive tongue
that was used to keep the peace, or to make it.
1t was not the character of Achilles, but of
Nestor, with his honeyed eioquence, that the
Benicia Boy played in Wieting Hall. He does
not, however, appear to have been very sue
cessful in preventing the riot, whatever he
may have achieved in bringing it to an end.
But he is rather indignant at the idea of being
supporter Of ex-Mayor Wood, or Of fighting
for him; and in this we give him full credit for
sincerity. He evidently belongs to the other
side, and considers it an imputation against
his characterize be charged with deserving or
betraying his friends. He is man of honor,
and though on the same side with Confidence
Cassidy & Co., would scorn their treachery.
From Mr. Heenan's affidavit it is very clear
a II.
From the offers made to him in New York by
the Peter Cooper party, and in Syracuse by
one of the leaders of Tammany Hall, we are
left to infer that the same offers were made to
other pugilists, who were not 80 squeamish
about receiving the money. Mr.. Heenan only
accepted the payment of his hotel bill Others
were not so easily satisfied. They, like Mr..
Hecnan, were admitted on the tickets signed
by Peter Cagger, and it was the work Of Cagger,