Andrew Wiley
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M. VAN BUREN and B.F. BUTLER, Counsellors at Law, have removed their office to No. 353 North Market-street, next door to Rockwell's Mansion house.
Albany, May 7, 1821.
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Mr. Van Buren proposed to reconsider the 8th section on military appointments. Agreed to.
I had not the honor of receiving your lett[e]r of yesterday, until last evening, so that I could not comply with your request, in answering it on that day.
The enclosed NYork specimen of the many such compliments I am favored with puts me in such connexion with you that I am tempted to trouble you with it, asking you to be good enough to return it that I may place it among the other testimonials of malevolence which attends public life and mine in particular.
As a small portion of the Democratic Party in this vicinity have, prematurely, opened the Presidential campaign, and are striving to thrust upon us as candidate, one who has done his country some service, but in whose capacity and political principles we have not that confidence, which should be infused into a party, at the commencement...
You will recollect, that last fall, or in the beginning of winter, you proposed that Mr. CLINTON should be sent abroad as Minister to England or some other foreign embassy.
By the President.
The Elective franchise—Existing restrictions have proven to be as impolitic as they are unjust. It is the office of wisdom to correct what experience condemns.
The Legislature of this State, adjourns tomorrow; and I cannot refrain, from writing you; and giving you, the true state of feeling now in Indiana, towards yourself, as entertained by the Democratic party.
The bill which was some days ago introduced into the Senate, by Mr. Van Buren, to exempt the Society of Friends, and the people called Shakers, from the performance of militia duty, and also from the payment of all commutation therefor, was on Wednesday taken up in the Senate, and passed, 18 to 10.
By M. Van Buren, Esq. The town of Kinderhook—The Whig seed which was sown in the revolution has produced good fruit—her republican energies are substantially increasing—though not always successful, she never fails to deserve it.
I hope to be able to leave here by the 15th. of this month for Col. Singletons, & thereby about the first of April for the Hermitage, if not deterred by the State of the roads, and conveyances between the latter places. I wish you would write me upon the latter subject, and in relation to the best route, directed to me at Col.
At a meeting of republican delegates from the several towns in the county of Columbia, held at the house of Jacob I. Harder, in the town of Claverack, on the 15th of April, 1811,
Gen. Samuel Ten Broeck, in the Chair,
Martin Van Buren, Secretary;
I enclose you a letter of Gen Jacksons which Gilmer had put into my hands for publication upon the adjournment of Congress last year. I did not do it, because I thought it unwise to make new issues pending the present presidential canvass.
I have recd your very kind letter at this place & thank you sincerely for the many obliging expressions it contains. Mr Paulding, myself & I hope Col. Singletons youngest son (Martin did not come on) will leave here to day for the Hermitage. We will go by Columbia, Mobile & New Orleans & hope to be with you between the 20th & 25th of April.
Mr. Van Buren went thro' the history of our controversy with Great Britain, and recapitulated the events and progress of the dispute in a manner that evinced his perfect command of the subject.
I owe you many thanks for your very interesting letter with the autographs enclosed. The latter I will lay away for a period when they will be sought after with the greatest avidity, whether I may be here to deal them out or not.
I have been very remiss in not ^having^ before this time made my acknowledgments for your interesting & friendly letter. Your views upon the subject of the late Treaty are very striking, & in all respects just. The objections to it are certainly very great, & you have set them forth with equal truth & justice.
The Senate were in Committee of the whole to day on the Cattskill Bank Bill, from the House.—A motion for its rejection being lost, various means were resorted to in order to defeat the Bill.
It is hardly right to trouble you with business in your very feeble condition, but as I know how desirous you are to devote every moment of your life to relieve the distress of your Fellow creaturs I comply with the wishes of my friends in writing you this letter.
When I took leave to suggest to you, in a hurried instant in the crowd at Sanderson's hotel that the great affirmance of the elections to your principles authorised & perhaps required a forbearing enforcement of them, (to which you answered, yes, conciliatory but firm) I did not mean to disuade the most inflexible adherence to them.