ies--even the bench of justice, with its awful
solemnities and responsibilities, has been so prostituted by your
friends that, when at sea and about to launch three of his
fellow-creatures into eternity, a captain in the American navy
hesitated not to avow that he had told one of them 'that for those who
had money and friends in America there was no punishment for the worst
of crimes.'--Nor did the court-martial before whom that avowal was
freely made censure him.

"Observe how Mr. and Mrs. Butler sneer at poor judges, corrupt judges,
pauper judges, partial chancellors, and at the administration of
American justice, though by their own party--and how their leader
pities Marcy, throws him on the Supreme Court bench as a stopping
place, to save him from ruin.--Look at the bankrupt returns of this
district alone--one hundred and twenty millions of dollars in debt,
very little paid or to be paid, many of the creditors beggared, many
of the debtors astonishing the fashionable with their magnificent
carriages and costly horses. No felony in you and your friends, who
brought about the times of 1837-8. Oh, no! All the felony consists in
exposing you. Two hundred years ago it was a felony to read the Bible
in English. Truth will prevail yet.

"I confess my fears that, as I have now no press of my own, nor the
means to get one, and am persecuted, calumniated, harassed with
lawsuits, threatened with personal violence, saying nothing of the
steady vindictiveness of your artful colleague, nor of the judges
chosen by Mr. Van Buren and his friends, whom the 'Globe Democratic
Review' and 'Evening Post' denounced in 1840, and declared to be
independent of common justice and honesty, you may succeed in
embittering the cup of misery I have drunk almost to the dregs. The
Swedish Chancellor, Count Axel Oxenstiern, wrote to one of his
children, 'You do not know yet, my son, how little wisdom is
exhibited in ruling mankind.' I think that Mr. Butler cannot be a
pure politician, and yet the corrupt individual whose dishonesty I
have so clearly shown.--Perhaps the United States government may
justify him, and the laws punish me for exhibiting him in his true
colours. Be it so--I had for many years an overflow of popularity;
and if it is now to be my lot to be overwhelmed with obloquy,
hatred, and ceaseless slander, I am quite prepared for it, or even
for worse treatment. B