Series 2 (1 January 1812-16 February 1815)
Having a collection of our democrats scolding at Congress reminds me of my remissness in not writing you. The appointment of our circuit in this month deprives me of the pleasure of visiting you. I regret this very much but it cannot be helped & therefore must be submitted to. I hope you will write me often & not regard my habitual negligence. We are engaged with the Chancellor in a paper... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Your notice for taxing Costs &c in the causes against Seloner & others was not received untill the day immediately preceeding the taxation, or I should have attended to it. It was understood betwen Mr VanDyck & myself that the Costs were to be taxed when we were both at Albany. Now I must ^can^ have a retaxation now you know of course. I propose therefore that the Costs be retaxed on... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Recipient: Abraham Van Dyck
You last winter proposed to sell the Guy to me and take my note which was ultimately to be endorsed you on the final purchase of the land over the creek. Presuming that you will be as willing to let me have the <avails> of the old fellow as himself I propose to you to let me have the money when collected and take my note as above. You can have no very great necessity for the money by winter... Continue Reading
To amicus Curiae
Your defence of the chancellor furnishes better proof of your attachment to him Friendship than your discretion. Before you undertook the Herculean task of supporting the extravagant grounds which his honor has seen thought proper to assume, common prudence should have dictated a more critical & extensive "view of the whole ground". The omission to do so has involved your... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Recipient: James Kent
Acustomed sir as your offcial course has made ^rendered^ you with the licentious virulence with which the press has lately <termed> & conscious of the high political ground you have recently seen fit to assume, your first impressions will doubtless be, that the object of this address with is an exposure of your conduct & character to ^a^ course of those virulent invectives &... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Recipient: James Kent
It seems to me you are very much disposed to be captious & short with me & I really do not know why or wherefore. As I sure have felt always very friendly to you I am sure you can never have had any reasons for it. Now as I am always averse to sparring or quarrelling about nothing this tartness had better be laid aside.
The plain State of the case is you have had sundry bills of Costs... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Recipient: Abraham Van Dyck
PURSUANT to an intimation in my last, I now solicit your attention to the act entitled "An act to authorize the raising of troops for the defence of this state," and your objections to the same. To the passage of this bill you have interposed five objections; several of which appear to me to contain very extraordinary principles. I will not say, sir, that your objections to this bill are... Continue Reading
Sender: Samuel Young
Recipient: James Kent
I enclose you a Bill which has yesterday passed the Senate after d nine days discussion. It was opposed by Root in all its Stages. It finally passed 21 to 6 Root being the only republican who voted against it. The assembly are now acting upon it. Clark, from Delaware the Companion of Root moved to strike out the first section if he was voted down by an overwhelming no Mr Sill then stated that he... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Allowance to the volunteers.
I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the governor shall cause to be paid to each non-commissioned officer, musician and private, of the volunteer corps, and to the legal representatives of those who may be deceased, raised in pursuance of general orders of March thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred... Continue Reading
Preamble.
WHEREAS a barbarous warfare on our coast and frontiers, by pillage and conflagration, is carried on by the enemy, and a determination is avowed to lay waste our cities and habitations, and to make a common ruin of both public and private property, contrary to the usages of civilized warfare: Wherefore, it has become expedient and necessary, that the legislature should facilitate to... Continue Reading
The Governor may call 12,000 men into actual service.
Proviso.
I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for his Excellency the Governor, by general orders, to call into actual service from the militia of this state, twelve thousand able bodied and effective men, to be raised in the manner prescribed by this... Continue Reading
Twenty companies to be raised.
I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the governor of the state of New-York be, and he is hereby authorised to raise for three years, unless sooner discharged, twenty companies of sea-fencibles, who may be employed as well on the land as on the water, for the defence of the port and harbor of New-York... Continue Reading
Two regiments to be raised.
I. Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That the governor of the state of New-York be, and he is hereby authorised to raise, by voluntary enlistment, two regiments of free men of color, for the defence of the state, for three years, unless sooner discharged.
Their number.
II. And be it further enacted, That... Continue Reading
I am gratified at the prospect of seeing you here next month for many reasons but more especially because it will enable me to profit by your counsel in the present crisis of our national affaris. Lt. Gov. Tayler, Col. Jenkins (who is now here) & most of our friends at Albany advise us to issue a paper currency accompanied with a tender law. This project is opposed by the President, & I... Continue Reading
Recipient: MVB
The commander in chief of the militia of the State of New York has referred me to the war department for instructions relative to the payment of the Militia officers who have been called into the service of the United States; including ^such^ as have served upon Genl. Militia Court Martials.
The following interrogatories embrace the objects of Enquiry.
1 Are the members of a Genl. Militia Court... Continue Reading
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