MORE YET TO COME.
I have now taken leave of my venerable friend the Chronicler; but I have no doubt that while he lives, he will continue to visit Wall-street daily, as he does also some other popular places of resort, to “catch the manners living as they rise.” And although I shall not be favored with his oral communications any more, yet he has promised me the free use of his diary while he lives, and of his manuscripts when dead, which are said to contain many important histories, not only of things long past, but also of the current events of the day, together with many valuable reminiscences intended only for posthumous publication.
But should the good people of Gotham, take so lively an interest in these revelations, as to invite their continuance, by buying this book, I can not say that such inducement will not call forth another compilation, from the mass of materials now at my disposal.
FOOTNOTES
[1] We intend to refer to Major 2nd., the bosom friend of General Jackson, not the original major, down east.
[2] See Boswell’s posthumous edition.
[3] Since the above was written, the affairs of the U. S. B. have been examined by a committee.
[4] The secret of the major’s disgrace at Washington has never been publicly known. But this passage of his letter, taken with the results of his subsequent advice to the defaulter, and his almost immediate discharge from employment afterwards, leave little doubt as to the cause.