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Isaac Stoutenburgh Hone to MVB, 26 December 1826

I cheerfully embrace the opportunity which you have offered me, of expressing my opinions upon the subject of a Bankrupt act. I do not know whether to refer the extreme anxiety which has been awakened upon this subject, to the promise which it unfolds of an ample harvest to the lawyers, or to facility and thoughtfulness <illegible> with which not novelties are usually embraced. But I am... Continue Reading

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Isaac Stoutenburgh Hone to MVB, 3 May 1837

I have the honor to inform you that a Committee has been appointed by a meeting of the merchants of New York, for the purpose of addressing the executive upon the present distressed condition of that city. In behalf of that committee I respectfully request an audience, at as early an hour as your convenience will permit.

Sender: Isaac Stoutenburgh Hone

Recipient: MVB

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MVB to Isaac Stoutenburgh Hone et al., 4 May 1837

I have bestowed on your communication the attentive consideration which is due to the opinions, wishes, and interests of the respectable portion of my fellow citizens in whose behalf you act. In the correctness of the judgment which, in the exercise of an undoubted right you have, in such general terms, pronounced upon particular points in the policy of the late and present administrations, you... Continue Reading

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Recipient: Isaac Stoutenburgh Hone

MVB to Isaac Stoutenburgh Hone, 3 May 1837

I have received your letter, informing me that a committee had been appointed by a meeting of the merchants of New York, for the purpose of addressing me upon the present distressed condition of that city, and requesting an audience at as early an hour as my convenience will admit. I will receive the committee at two o’clock to-day, and will at that, or any other time, more agreeable to them, be... Continue Reading

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Recipient: Isaac Stoutenburgh Hone

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