- Blunt Joseph
- Connell John
- Cutts Richard jun
r - Mary E. E. Cutts
Mr
Blunt is a native of Newburyport, and a practising lawyer
and active politician in New-York, whose position in Society it is
difficult to define. He has fine talents as a political writer, and has
for twenty years been a political drudge— His pretensions always very
high are never gratified— Perfectly good natured, and always satisfied
with himself he has an obtrusiveness of manners which it is almost
impossible to tolerate, and not less so to resist.— He wrote to me very
earnestly to urge his claim to the appointment of U.S. district Attorney
at New-York— Came here himself to obtain it—but finding it pledged to
Ogden Hoffman, told me he
would not accept it with the compensation reduced not to exceed 6000
dollars a year. I asked him if he came for something now. He said no but
he would take if offered to him the appointment of Charge d’Affaires at
Berlin or at Naples—though he might expect something better—he was
surely not below Cambreleng. I called at the Treasury Department, and
found the Secretary Ewing so
oppressed with business that I could have with him only a very short
conversation— I enquired into the present condition of the Smithson fund
and shewed him my 3. Resolutions offered to the House on the 30th. of December last, and the Letter to me
of Levi Woodbury of the 18th of January— Upon enquiry of Mr Maclintock
Young it appeared that the interest of the last year on
the Arkansas bonds was invested in Illinois Stocks at 79. Mr Ewing said he would call at my house to
converse with me on this and other matters— I left with him applications
for appointments of S. H.
Currier as Collector of the Customs at Newburyport—of
Seth Williams at Fall-river,
formerly Dighton—of Leavitt
Thaxter for Edgartown—of William Pearce as Collector and William Ferson as Deputy Collector at
Gloucester—and he read at my request the petition of John A. Bogan and 5 bricklayers,
whereupon I intreated him to reform the stupid and gross mismanagement
of the whole concern respecting the public buildings.— He said it was
under the consideration of the Cabinet— At the Department of State I
communicated to Mr Webster the Letter from J. T. Buckingham, with the
Resolutions of the Bunker-hill Association of the 16th. of January last; and I left with him
applications for office of Balie
Peyton as U.S. District Attorney at New-Orleans; of
Burrington Anthony, to
be continued Marshal of Rhode-Island—an of J. J. Greenough to be continued and promoted as a Clerk
in the Patent Office— I found also the papers of which I was in quest
relating to the Acts of the Legislature of South Carolina, excluding
negroes from coming into the State by Sea; with additional and important
papers on the same subject— I took the Letter from judge William Johnson to me of 3.
July 1824. out with me; and read the opinions of the Attornies general,
Wirt, Berrien and Taney; and the Correspondence
between J. Forsyth and the
French Minister Pontois.
Evening visit to T. B.
Johnson— Richard Cutts,
junr and his Sister were here—and Mr Connell
from Philadelphia. Beautiful Spring weather.