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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 4 April 1826

The time for our adjournment is now fixed upon and we shall soon have done what shall at all be done to prepare for our Fall contest. Much alarm and excitement is prevailing, not only here, but in New York and elsewhere, from the course taken by Noah, and by the allegations that some of us with yourself, are inclining to join with Mr. Clinton against the National Administration. These allegations... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, c5-13 May 1828

The present duties upon woolens are 25 percent ad-valorem and 33 1/3 per cent ad-valorem. By this bill now before the senate the duties are now all put at 40 per cent ad-valorem, and to be 40 per cent ad-valorem next year. The increase therefore is 15 per cent and the goods paying 25 per cent. and 6 2/3 per cent upon those paying 33 1/3 per cent. And next year the increase upon the latter will... Continue Reading

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Petition to MVB on remarks and resolutions concerning DeWitt Clinton's death, 19 February 1828

We the undersigned respectfully request Mr Van Buren to furnish to the Chairman & Secretary of the meeting of the New York Delegation convened this morning in the capital, a copy of the remarks he made upon the melancholy and unexpected tidings of the sudden death of the Governor of the State of New York; for the purpose of having those remarks Printed, together with the resolutions, passed... Continue Reading

Sender: Silas Wright Jr., Sender: Churchill Caldom Cambreleng, Sender: Aaron Ward, Sender: Stephen Van Rensselaer III, Sender: John Isaac De Graff, Sender: Thomas Jackson Oakley, Sender: Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, Sender: Rudolph Bunner, Sender: George Ogilvie Belden, Sender: John Chamberlain Clark, Sender: Jonas Earll Jr., Sender: Nathaniel Garrow, Sender: John Hallock Jr., Sender: Selah Reeve Hobbie, Sender: Richard Keese, Sender: John Magee, Sender: John G. Stower, Sender: John Jacob Wood, Sender: Silas Wood

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, c5-13 May 1828

3 Every farmers family manufactures woolens, but I have no means of knowing the number of factories of woolen goods. I suppose there may be some 30 or 40 with a Capital averaging 30, or 40,000. Dolls Each. 2 The No. of sheep in our state cannot vary far from 5,500,000. and the flocks will not average more than 150 take this whole State. I think not so much. This would make 30,000 flocks, or men... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, c5-13 May 1828

The present duties upon woolens are 25 percent ad-valorem and 33 1/3 per cent ad-valorem. By this bill now before the senate the duties are now all put at 40 per cent ad-valorem, and to be 40 per cent ad-valorem next year. The increase therefore is 15 per cent and the goods paying 25 per cent. and 6 2/3 per cent upon those paying 33 1/3 per cent. And next year the increase upon the latter will be... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 7 December 1828

By the kindness of a friend, and by your direction, I have today seen a letter from you on the subject of the state of feeling among our friends at Albany. I have read and attentively weighed the matters stated in the letter. You request that I should write and I do so most cheerfully. My first object must be to thank you for the confidence in which you seem to place, and which I have no doubt... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 9 December 1828

I wrote you on Sunday a very long and very hasty letter in relation to myself. I did not have time to read it to see what was written or whether what was written was intended to be written. I now write a new line in relation to yourself, and I will be as frank as you was with Mr. Earll in the letter to which mine was a partial answer. I now consider it perfectly settled that you must come into... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 2 January 1844

Permit me in great sincerity to wish you a happy new year, and to ask you to extend that wish to every member of your family. Our day yesterday was beautiful, and the consequence was a very great press at the President's House. I was there about one oclock, and never saw more people, and never so few whom I knew. It is said that very few of the prominent whig members, or their families, presented... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 8 January 1844

Your favor of the 2nd Int. covering the letters of Mr. Sanford and Mr. Ingersoll reached me on Saturday evening. So far from apprehending that you may be suspected of a disposition to advise me upon this difficult and responsible subject, I hope you will advise me frankly and fully upon it. Mr. Sanford’s letter is an excellent one, as I have long been aware his paper is one of the most discreet... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 3 April 1844

I take a moment in my seat to write a word to you, because I am requested to state a fact, and submit to you whether you should notice it. The fact is that Mr. Clay has stated, in Georgia, that you used efforts, in 1828, to <illegible> yourself to be instructed as to your vote upon the Tariff of that year, and that he refers to my veracious colleague, N.P. Tallmadge, for his authority. This... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 6 May 1844

Again I write in my seat, because I cannot write at any other time. I beg you to believe that it is not because I have laid you so far on the shelf as some of our friends seem to have done, but because I cannot get the time, and that I do not want to disturb your equanimity of feeling, that I have not reported to you either the correct events here, or the communications I have received relating... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 6 March 1844

I write to you a hasty line in my seat, because I assume you are yet at Albany, and that I cannot so well say to any one else the things I want to say. Events of vast impact are passing here and no one can tell what reports may flow from the facts. I have made an intimation to you, in a former letter, on the subject of the Judgeship in connection with myself. I then supposed that connection was... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 22 March 1844

I am indebted to you for several favors which I have not yet acknowledged, and the letter of the Majors came this morning. I have so much to say that I shall be compelled to cut off perhaps before I have touched upon all that is material, and therefore I will reverse the order and take your last first. I like the card and the arrangement and preparation for its appearance, and have, by the mail... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 6 April 1844

Your package came to me night before last. I did not attempt to reply to it yesterday, because I found our friend Mr Butler was here yesterday, and I wished to see and converse fully with him, before I wrote to you. I have had a good deal of conversation with him and he has just left me. He has heard more of the views in the court <quarter> than I could Know, and you will hear from him... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 8 April 1844

I seize a moment, this morning, to acknowledge your favor of the 5th <Int>, which came to me yesterday and to thank you for it. I was not aware that my hasty letter to you indicated the feeling you think you see in it, and yet I am not surprised that it has some evidence of disturbed feeling, for the two letters did, at the moment disturb me not a little. Yet I very soon came to look upon... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 11 April 1844

I write now to notice sundry things which I have overlooked and omitted to answer in your former letters, as well as to give the <present> reasons, and to say a few words upon another subject. The King to whom I refered as one my advisers here at present was Preston King and not William R. The latter has been behaving very well for him for the last year or two, but you Know was never made... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 29 April 1844

I take a moment, in my seat, to say a word to you on the subject of the letter. You will see that we put it in print without delay. I yet think it was most fortunate that the letter came and was published at the very moment it did come and was published. The appearance of Mr. Clay's letter, on Saturday morning, surprised me, although we had had daily reports that ^the^ letter would appear the... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 26 May 1844

I have not had time to write to you, during the last week, and I infer from a late note from Butler that he did not send send you my frequent and very miscellaneous but familiar letters to him, after one or two of the first. It is quite as well that he did not, for they could not have given you much information, which you would have desired to possess, and they might have contained things which... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 2 June 1844

I have not written to you, since the action of the National convention, for many reasons, which it may not be useful to communicate, and especially as the most important one is mere laziness, a perfect <illegible> of feelings, producing an <illegible> indisposition towards labour of any kind. I had endeavored, as far as I thought appearances authorised it, to prepare you for the... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 10 June 1844

Your note came to me last evening. If we adjourn on the 17th, as I now hope we shall, we shall try to get up the river to the landing on Friday evening of the next week. I had feared, when I wrote to you, that our stay in the city might not be within my control, but a letter from Mr. Butler induces the hope that I shall not be pestered by any of the <illegible> which I had apprehended there... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 28 August 1833

I went to Albany on the evening of wednesday after I saw you and remained there until the forenoon of the Saturday after. In the course of my stay I took especial pains to talk with the friends I had previously seen upon the subject of the deposits, and the following is the result of their opinions delivered to me by each individually and with as full a Knowledge as I possessed myself of the... Continue Reading

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Silas Wright Jr. to MVB, 25 February 1834

I return you the letters and also send a letter from Dix and one from Flagg recd. a few days since. The letter when read you will please throw upon the fire.

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MVB to Silas Wright Jr., 3 October 1826

Believing it possible from some intimations given me ^It having been intimated to me^ that my name may be brought before the Herkimer Convention as a Candidate for the office of Govr. I take the liberty of troubling you with my views upon the subject, relying on your friendship to lay them before the body if in your judgment the circumstances require it. There are few men in the state more... Continue Reading

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MVB to Silas Wright Jr., c5-13 May 1828

1 About How many people have we in our state interested & engaged in the Iron business. 2d Probably have many who sell raise wool to sell. <viz> 3d How many in the manufacture of woolens.

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Recipient: Silas Wright Jr.

MVB to Silas Wright Jr., c5-13 May 1828

1 About How many people have we in our state interested & engaged in the Iron business. 2d Probably have many who sell raise wool to sell. <viz> 3d How many in the manufacture of woolens.

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Recipient: Silas Wright Jr.

MVB to Silas Wright Jr., 10 May 1844

I received yesterday your very kind and interesting letter of the 6th Inst. The condition of things at Washington certainly bodes no good to the future wellbeing of that great political party to which we have always belonged and upon the ascendancy of which ^while it retain'd its past purity^, I am every day more and more convinced depends the maintenance of the Republican principle in the... Continue Reading

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Thomas Ritchie to Silas Wright Jr., 20 March 1844

At the hazard of being considered the greatest bore in Christendom, I send you the following Extract of a Letter I received last night from Washington: "March 17—The Texan Question is destined to succeed. I think the Treaty, when made, will certainly be ratified. x x x To-morrow Evening, a decisive Article will appear in the Globe. Gen. Jackson is with us most heartily with us, and will go the... Continue Reading

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