Excerpt from The Lives and Opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler, United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New-York, and Jesse Hoyt, Counsellor at Law, Formerly Collector of Customs for the Port of New-York: With Anecdotes or Biographical Sketches of Stephen Allen, George P. Barker, Jacob Barker, James Gordon Bennett, Samuel R. Betts, Isaac W. Bishop, F. P. Blair, Walter Bowne, C. C. Cambreleng, Moses I. Cantine, J. I. Coddington, W. H. Crawford, Etc Jackson Andrew - V Buren has his confidence 54 - od'ers Duane the Russian embassy 81 borrows of Blair 88 - abused by Argus 90 describes pet banks 106. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.