Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19
RELICS OF BY-GONE DAYS.
uow the Democratic Machine was
Run Forty Years Ago.


A correspondent of the Washington
Chronicle has been digging up some
correspondence between Democratic
Leaders in Martin Van Buren's time,
which is erich, rare and racy." Here
/ is one from James Gordon Bennett to
Jesse Hoyt, a sort Of Imam Friday"
to Van Buren,
PHILADELPHIA, July %, 1888.
DEAR HoYT: / have written TO Van
/ Buren, to-day about the old affair. |
must have a loan Of 81 800 for a couple
Of years from some quarter. | can
not get along without it, and IL not
! from the common friends of our cause
those l have been working for eight
years. must look somewhere else.
You see already the effect produced in
Pennsylvania. We can have the State,
but If our friends won't lay aside their
heartlessness, why, We'll all go to the
devil that is all There Is no man
who will 20 further with friends than
| will who will sacrifice more, work
harder. Kendall leaves Washington
tomorrow on his tour of bank inspect
or. Yours, &c,
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
1t seems that +. p. Blair went to
Washington and started the Globe in
Van Buren's interest and associated
with him Daniel jackson. This letter
tells how the enterprise obtained its
funds:
| GENTLEMEN: When f. p. Blair,
ESQ, was in this city, you each sub
To- Ia, IN tha
of furnishing him a printing press.
At a meeting of his friends on that
occasion, the subscription was short of
the amount required; but | well re-
collect the pledge you made, which
was, that the press should be furnished
and paid for The press has been sent
to Mr. Blair, under the direction of
some Of the subscribers, and 1870
paid on account of it. The balance
due the maker is six hundred and
f tifty-two dollars and fifty cents, for
which he has commenced suit against
I me. AS did not either contract with
or have anything to do with Mr.. Hoe,
, the maker of the press, except my eX-
ertions in collecting the subscriptions
and paying them over, | shall, of
course, resist the payment of it. 1t
q appears to me that this matter ought
! not to be subject to an investigation in
/ "a court of justice. Mr.. Hoe should be
paid for the press, and | think the
y gentlemen who pledged themselves to
n Mr.. Blair are in honor bound to pay
n immediate attention to the subject.
DANIEL JACKSON.
This was written to Jesse Hoyt, NJ,
u NJ. Noah and others. 1t is said that
v Blair made $50, 900 in one single year
# out of the profits of the Globe office.
i Here follows few speci
d mems from John Van Buren, about
( speculatons in stocks which vii
y prove entertaining to the ring Of bone
II spectators in Tennessee, who are in
l. side of the close corporation :"
e P'M'K-AvoN, n. Y, Sept 2S, 1884.
- Franked by NJ. Van Buren,
= My DEAR JESSE: | make use of ;
" frank the old man left with me TO lie
YOU know that am about as unhHpp.
ID as you would wish to see, from
fear that you have purchased me som
Paterson railroad stock, on which j an
- to lose a large sum OF money. | Sc
- that on Wednesday it left off at Sl9,
" or 8 per cent. lower than it was when
- authorized you to buy for me. | know
~ nothing of the id stock eXcep
a. Bermner was dealing in it, and it ha
been rising for "a month, and / haTdl,
- thought my buying would knock
"a down forthwith. Sell il you thinl
W best, and let me lose the present differ
., ence. If / get out of this job you ma
~ consider nj" discharged cured" a
," the cholera reports read.
~ Yours, ever truly,
-, VAN buren,.
n mo. 2SO.l
ALBANY, October7, 1884.
MY DEAR HoYT They say " I'll
~ blood of the martyrs is the seed of tt
VI Church. and Heaven knows | hay
been fully tapped in the good caus
40 40 The rem. REMOVAL of the dep. [dt
~ positsl cost me fortune, and | don
10 see but / must lose another hunk
y. my little earnings. My impression
n i5 that stocks will go up till election, an
ou fall Immediately after. If the pOl
-, Wings could carry a constable some
u where and get up jubilee stool
= would rise. New Jersey may go Il
- them and give them flip, but Penn
~ sylvania will knock them stiff nel
'e week so will Ohio, and so will Ne
York. | should be most particular
T Obliged TO you III you can get me u
l. even bet against Marcy TO any amour
WI less than SIS 600. / think 1 would b
iat 500 on each 900 majority up to 800
he | would bet 81 800 against 81 900 on q
ny even election. / consider Marcy's ele
ou ton by from 1900 to $1,000 majority
en sure as God! Make me some bets,
~ possible. Yours truly, ]. V. b.
~ ALBANY, March 25, 1884.
"A Why, d-n you, Jesse, buy my stoC
y and draw on me at sight. You mu
oGG be poor Burgers down there if you ca
~ not raise this twO-peDny sum. If Il
4te' stock has gone up let it go to hill. III
~. bank will come up against the Safe
'ul Fund Bank and depress stocks. III
'ut Governors measure will eventually l
' ao lieve the country. Yours truly +,
".
~ p. S.-Ih have formed a partnersh
II in law with Colonel McKoun. One
III us will attend all the courts, and '
shall be happy to do dnybody's " din
lOOrkp' j. V. b.