Series 3 (17 February 1815-2 December 1821)
As chairman of the committee of the Senate, appointed on the report of the comptroller, in relation to your claims under the act of the 13th of April last, I submit to your inspection the report which it is the intention of the committee to make to the Senate, on the subject referred to them. You will see by it that the course the committee recommend will, if adopted by the legislature, reduce... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
I have just recd. yours of the 12th. I must deal frankly and especially with all who may unjustly claim that I shd. discard Rumor in writing to him on a subject, personally as well as politically of great moment. You cannot be ignorant of the course that I have, even at first with some hesitation, believed it to be my Duty to pursue relative to the Missouri question. That discussion has revealed... Continue Reading
Sender: Rufus King
Recipient: MVB
It is due to Genl. Brown & also to the inoffensiveness of my own motives at least, that I should state, that I have no doubt the observations in relation to your conversation with Genl. Brown which have appeared in the public prints, originated from some familiar communications made by me, and I feel equally with you, hurt & surprised at the use which has been made of them. Although from... Continue Reading
Recipient: Ambrose Spencer
I am delighted with your <Phasion> but think the publication of them should be delayed for sometime and then be published in rapid succession I wish therefore you would prepare them all and send them down me
Sender: MVB
Recipient: Benjamin Franklin Butler
"Nor can I conceal on this occasion the deep anxiety which I feel in a subject now under the consideration of the General Government and which is unfortunately calculated to produce geographical distinctions. Highly important as it is to allay feelings so inauspicious & to cultivate the most friendly relations communion with every member of the confederacy, yet I consider the interdiction of... Continue Reading
Sender: DeWitt Clinton
Reflecting upon the occurance of last evening, Mr. Mc. In[t]yres case ought to have been brought up by me in a very different manner from what it was, assurances ought then to have been required that he should not be removed from his office, by the council about to be made, I feel a strong conviction that he is an honest and upright man, ^&^ a great proportion of this community are of the... Continue Reading
Recipient: MVB
I recd. yours of this morning & in reply have only to say, that if the Gentlemen who our friends support for the Council could be induced to ob make any stipulation either who they should would appoint or who they would or would not remove as an Inducement for their support, I would not only oppose them to the extend of my means but would publicly upraid them for their profligacy. I thought I... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
I received yours of this morning and in reply have only to say that if the Gentlemen who our friends support for the council could be induced to make any stipulation either who they would appoint or who they would ^or would^ not remove as an Inducement for their support I would not only oppose them to the extent of my means but would publicly upraid them for their profligacy. I thought I had made... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
From the silence which has been observed by you on the subject of my letter of Nov last, I take it for granted that Mr. Ten Eyck does not expect my farther attention to his part of the Hart suit. As the different claims have now separated they can be well attended to by different persons, but as the master is now engaged in preparing his report on the personal property & the case may be... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
RESTRICTION OF SLAVERY.
Mr. M'Neil from the committee appointed to take into consideration that part of his excellency the governor's speech which respects the extension of slavery, reported:
That the committee have had the same under consideration, and recommend to the house the adoption of the following resolution:
Whereas the inhibiting the further extension of slavery in these United States... Continue Reading
Recipient: New York Assembly
Mr. Root felt it his duty to enter his protest against the adoption of the resolution reported by the committee. However strong, and however true the language of the preamble to these resolutions, we ought to be cautious how we attempt to instruct our senators and representatives in congress upon this subject. Mr. R. did not wish to be understood as the friend or advocate of slavery: so far from... Continue Reading
Sender: Erastus Root
Recipient: New York Assembly
The Senate then took up the consideration of the resolutions from the honorable the Assembly, as entered on the journals of the Senate of yesterday, relative to the inhibition of slavery.
Thereupon,
Resolved, That the Senate do concur with the honorable the Assembly in their said resolutions.
Ordered, That the clerk deliver a copy of the preceding resolution of concurrence to the honorable the ... Continue Reading
Sender: New York Senate
I have been again called by summons from the Master to the Hart cause & will be obliged to spend the best part of the summer to the examination of it. I have requested the Executors to make me an advance of fees which they will do. I have also spoken to ^old^ Mr. Ten Eyck & he refers me to you as having his funds. I must therefore request you to advance me $300 in the course of this week... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Mr. Catlin has resigned the Cashiership of the Branch Bank, and our friends the Duers are very anxious to have Mr. Robinson appointed. Mr. Gracie has left my room this moment and is very anxious that you should come down and go with them. I hope you will by no means fail to come down with the next boat. I shall be detained here until the latter end of the next week waiting for the Secretary of... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Recipient: Charles Edward Dudley
I am under particular obligations to you for your friendly letters. As my evil genius would have it, I was taken quite unwell when the bad news from the West came pouring in upon us, and, though very sick, was obliged to keep my head up although fit only for the bed. I am now, however, quite recovered, and our friends here have recovered from their first panic and begin to estimate as they ought... Continue Reading
Sender: MVB
Recipient: Charles Edward Dudley
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