Katie Hatton
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I this moment recd. Notice from the Sherriff of a Suit in the Supreme Court, which I presume has originated in my omiting to pay up the Interest on my Loan. I am mortified at the circumstance, which has originated in the extent of my manuftg business, in the extreme high price of Cotton for the last two years, & the effect of Peace on the Sales.
I am Informed of by Charles Easton the Dept.
I was in Verona yesterday I was informed Mr Grant was down pertending to buy lot No 157 & Cagwin has sent before thinking to ketch you to make out the state does not own it & there by gain the Cause they contrive allways to avoid Justice this is the Company which has done so much mischief with timber I am told I arived a few days ago the stage is wating.
This is an action for the publication of a libel, brought against the defendant in the Supreme Court.
The jury, by their special verdict, found, that on the 12th of August, 1811, Barry “did go without the limits, to wit, into the enclosure of one Henry Vrooman, which was formerly included within the liberties of the gaol; but by a subsequent survey, (made, however, before the execution of the bond, on which the suit was brought,) one part of...
I have received with much feelings of profound gratitiude, the resolutions of the Senate enclosed in your note of yesterday. Be pleased to present to the Senate and to accept for yourself, the assurances of my high consideration and esteem.
I have had the honor to receive your letter, written in behalf of the Indiana Democratic State Convention, and asking my views and opinions in relation, 1st, to the chartering of a National Bank, or any other national institution.
Yours of the 16th. instant is just recd and I hasten to thank you for the enclosures, which I retain to refute the vagrant falshoods of our noisy worshipers of Hard Cider, logg Cabins & Coons, who have been exulting much that Newyork, South Carolina & Alabama &c &c were horse foot & dragoons going for them.
Resolved, That a committe of five be appointed, whose duty it shall be to open a correspondence with the distinguished Individuals of the democratic party, who have nam been named as Candidates for the presidency and vice presidency—and enquire of them, their views and opinions in relation to the following subjects—
I have no farther suggestions to make on the matter of your last. The question is with the President & he will make such disposition of it as to him seems meet & proper.
On my return from Norfolk a few days since I found your letter of the 15th. in which you enquire whether I have definitively declined the appointment of a Judge of &c. & whether the P. so understands it. In my conversation with the P. I certainly meant to be understood by him that I did decline taking the office.
ARGUS OFFICE,
ALBANY, APRIL 23, 1823.
I submitted to the President confidentially your letter. He informed me no appointment would be made in some time as it could not now be made in season for the Spring Courts there was no necessity for acting at present. He said nothing from which I could gather his intentions in relation to the appointment.
For fear that any misrepresentations may be made or undue advantage taken respecting of my not attending the meeting at Jonas Millers to day, I think proper to inform you of the manner in which I have ben invited to attend and the reasons of my non-attendance.
On my arrival here I found Mrs Van Ness ill with a sore throat & fever. She continues still so unwell, that I fear it will not be in my power to leave town so early as tuesday, which was my intention when I left you.
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Caleb Cornell To. Joseph Wright of the City of New York. |
Your Communication has been handed to me by Mr Morell he is authorised to make arrangements contemplated & [. . .]
Communication of Mr Rufus King to Mr Van Buren in May 1823
It is difficult, if not impossible for me who is not acquainted with the views & combinations of the executive power to form a correct opinion, or to give unreserved advice respecting any particular appt. wh in itself may be ^not only^ impudent, but insolent, yet when viewed in connexion with other appointments with wh.