Series 3 (17 February 1815-2 December 1821)
On counting the money you gave me yesterday I found there was only $190. I mention the circumstance that if any more was committed in the payment of it to you it may be counted.
Sender: MVB
Enclosed you have a subpoena agreeable to your wishes, the Interrogatories have been duly served and an admitted copy transmitted to the <anxious> Mr Green. Publication has been delayed untill the 23d Inst. I selected that early day in the hopes of yet being able to bring on the cause at the Jany Term but of that I doubt from the Impression of business about that time. The witnesses as to... Continue Reading
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Recipient: Robert Troup
Will you be so good as to make for me to the Inspectors of Court my gratefull acknowledgments for their favour in overestimating the little service it was in my power to render them & to express to them my high sense of the patriotism which actuat[. . .] townsmen & themselves at the late election.
I am happy to be able to assure you that unless the west is more than disordered, unless... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
You were disappointed last winter, as you well know, in your plan of personal advancement—and you thence forward, as you well know, have been unwearied in your efforts to stir up dissension and discord in the republican party; in stimulating the young lawyers throughout the state to erect presses, and raise a hue and cry against governor Clinton; and in annoying and misrepresenting his... Continue Reading
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From the Albany Register.
THE CIRCULAR.
To the Hon. Martin Van Buren.
Sir,
A circular, the offspring of your pen, signed by yourself, and purporting to be signed by certain other senators, under date of the 25th of November last, addressed to some of the republican members of the Assembly elect, although not intended to be seen by me, has accidentally come to my hands. Why this production was... Continue Reading
Recipient: MVB
From the Albany Register.
DE WITT CLINTON, and the GREAT
WESTERN CANAL.
FALKLAND, to the Hon. MARTIN VAN
BUREN.
Sir—I hope you will pardon me, when I ascribe to you the late article in the Albany Argus signed "CRASSUS." The object of that letter, is nothing more nor less, than to separate De Witt Clinton and the great western canal. This stupendous undertaking that confers so much lustre upon... Continue Reading
Recipient: MVB
Mr John Ely Junr of this city & Deputy Comptroller contemplates applying for the office of Cashier of the Branch bank about to be established in this city (as it is supposed) I have ^been^ long acquainted with Mr Ely and can recommend him to you as a young gentleman of the highest character for Probity and of ^possessed of^ talents adapted to the situation. This is however not to interfere... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
The suggestions in your last are important and I will attend to them soon. I drop you this line to apprise you that the subject is not forgotten or disregarded.
Sender: MVB
I hope you will not fail to lay before your readers, the very interesting letter from Chancellor Kent to Mr. Hoffman. It cannot fail to be highly gratifying to every real friend of the judiciary, and well wisher of the chancellor. They have witnessed with regret the unceasing attempts which have been for some time making by some of his judicial friends, to draw him with them into all the petty... Continue Reading
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If I were to confine my views to you in the abstract, without reference to analogous cases, which constantly occur, I should not hesitate to consider your present standing in the community, a moral paradox—a political phenomenon. When I take the gauge and dimensions of your intellectual endowments and acquisitions, and perceive how small and scanty they are—and when I view your habitual... Continue Reading
Sender: DeWitt Clinton
Recipient: MVB
The crisis of our fate is rapidly approaching. Already do we experience the diminution of our numbers and the falling of off wise and good men. Even Dudley begins to shake in the wind—and to inquire, like his original in the fable, whether, if the enemy succeeds, his fate will be rendered worse or his panniers more burthensome.— Van Kleeck already brandishes the sword of defiance, and threatens a... Continue Reading
Sender: DeWitt Clinton
Recipient: MVB
In all discomfitures and defeats, whether political, civil, or military, the blame will necessarily be imputed to the chief of the enterprise or undertaking. Within a few years, you have arrived to factitious importance, and the eye of curiosity and criticism has, for some time, been fixed upon you. Whether your balloon-like elevation is founded on wisdom or cunning—on solidity of talent or... Continue Reading
Sender: DeWitt Clinton
Recipient: MVB
There are some men, who are always the dupes of their own vanity, and who like a squirrel in a rotary cage, or a horse in a Troy Team-Boat, really think that they are in a state of advancement, when they have made no progress at all. This is emphatically your case. Under the influence of a sanguine temperament, like your great prototype, Aaron Burr, you believe that you can cut and carve as you... Continue Reading
Sender: DeWitt Clinton
Recipient: MVB
The object of publishing Mr Sallys & others certificate was to impeach your motives in opposing Mr Clinton. If this has been done without the knowledge of those Gentlemen it is to be presumed they will of their own accord make a publication exonerating you from that imputation. If they do not I think you ought to publish their letter to you of December last & your answer to it, which will... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Will you be so good as to have one of the enclosed papers served for me on Mr Luther & let him admit the service of the other & return it to me? I am sorry to trouble you but know no person at Plattsburgh who I think would take more satisfaction in obliging me.
I am happy to learn that we think alike on the subject of the approaching political contest & was highly flattered by the... Continue Reading
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