would continue them till they got me so poor, that they could put me in the penitentiary. I have heard them say I could do more with one dollar, than any other man could with ten, and they could not stand an instant against me, but by having the judges rob me. John Thorp told me as Auditor, he asked Charles Brough, Prosecuting Attorney, how b ame to indict me for forgery, and expend three hundred dollars of the County money, when he knew there was nothing in it. Thorp said Brough replied, "His political salvation for years depended on his bringing in that indictment against me, who had no respect for him, and it was useless to further cry that I, who had for more than twelve years brought about everything in the elections as I said it should be, was crazy. The night of the General Harrison meeting here, about Oct. 1840, they came after me, saying the great Democratic orators, that astonished the natives, had all squat that night out of deference to the occasion. I went, and addressed the meeting, while Cilley Graves addressed the other, four squares off; but before I had spoken twenty minutes, Graves was making a straight coat tail sloping for Keutucky, chased by Cilley's ghost. That I so then reflected from my mind on to him, and chased him with the ghost, and daguerreotyped that ghost so on to his mind, that he abandoned playing orator, and took to Kentucky, holding solitary.conversations with that ghost, then daguerreotyped on to his mind from mine, till he died. From the straight coat tail Graves made sloping to Kentucky, abandoning 'all the decency, respectability, wealth, talents, learning and understanding," chased by Cilley's ghost, the Opposition took the alarm for their triumphal arch, and concentrated themselves under what used to be Major Connover, and put the arch under the guard of their entire forces, lest it should follow Graves.

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After I got the meeting under control, the tools of their great orators appeared in every direction calling for their vast orators, who no longer were on a journey, or gone to sleep." They came, and I got down, when across the market house I heard two men talking about the meeting leaving it; and as there were no lights then, I followed, and heard unobserved by them, who said, "This is the place they have told us throughout the Union, no man dare to open his mouth against General Harrison; but we have heard no man in this Union equal to that man. What could we not do, had we that brave man in Mississippi?"—their home, and that of the great orator, Prentiss. Prentiss and myself are graduates of the same College, though he was two years ahead of me; but the Professor of Rhetoric, Oratory and Logic, Newman, used to say the man never stood on the earth, that could stand before me an instant as a logician, orator and rhetorician, sustaining these Mississippians, hearing both Prentice and me. That Professor Newman told me, more times than I have fingers and toes, that if I would preach, and I might choose the doctrines I would preach, he would make provision for me, so that I never need wash my hands, and he would, in consideration of my doing that, contract with me that I should receive all his property at the death of himself and wife, amounting to then not less than from twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars, and he would give me security it should continue that, till it came to me, they having no children.

So many times were these offers made to me, that I asked Professor Newman what were his reasons for making me these offers. He told me I was the powerfulest orator, rhetorician and logician, naturally, that he ever saw stand on feet, till it amazed him to hear me, who could not read any thing I or any other person had written, nor could I memorize and deliver either. Neither could I write any thing so there was any sense in it; yet pressing your mind against a question, as speaker, you open the entire subject before,

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you, and ideas, language, oratory, rhetoric and logic come rushing to you, so that you make all see, act and reflect through you, who have the power to wind minds about you, as if they were strings you were winding about your fingers. You know more about political economy, than all the men that have been in this College, running a theory through it different from all other men. though you understand every book extant on it, yet to use any of their knowledge is ruin to you, who must understand and illustrate it in your Your entire class sees political economy through you, and so do I, and not through the books, though you cannot write a word, or use any of the book knowledge on it. There is a peculiarity in your logic, rhetoric and oratory, by which, through your desire, you control others, till they feel, act and reflect as you desire, which I never saw another have.How you do it, I cannot understand, never having seen any other person but you, who could convert themselvers into their hearers, and their au dience into the speaker, till they are one in acts, feelings, reflections and desires, till the speaker becomes the power, force, will and desire of the audience; but you who can calm and inflame them to action as if they were part of you, without any other feeling, thought, purpose or desire, till you become the most powerful orator I ever saw tread the earth, or have any conception of."

This professor of oratory, logic, and rhetoric, thought I could do all John Van Buren said to James W. Taylor I had done to this nation, which he said in 1848, I had governed through my will, for the sixteen previous years, as my letters he would find laying in the hands of men all through this Union, should show, and nothing I should say; and he defied the man to be produced, who had one of my letters, though neither of us knew each other," who had not done as I desired; and he defied Britain to show so great a statesman, or this nation such brains, as those letters should evidence in me, where he defied the letter to be produced, showing I had made a mistake, or failed in a single prediction, though he has gone into the most minute details, on cause and effect, throughout this nation, and the entire earth for years. About 1847 the British Ministry said this nation was, and had been for years, governed by one man, who alone understood her councils and policy, and held her to them, enriching and aggrandizing herself through them at the expense of all other nations, with a hand and will of iron, where there is not another man in the nation, who can see why she is so enriching and ag grandizing, herself at the expense of other nations; while he, sitting behind the government, and out of sight, having no government secrets that we can purchase with our money to sell, sees as distinctly as he sees his hand, the reason why her councils and policy persued, so enriches and aggrandizes her at the expense of all other nations.

Every one of those men said I had done, on my senses with men, what I have shown the Messiah done to the prophets for ages, in connection through his mind, with his senses in the earth, as he could so then make the prophets in connection through his mind, with his senses in the earth, see as he would at the scenes, it follows he must have the same power here to make men sée, feel, act and reflect through his senses, which all these men said I could and had done, exactly as the Messiah had made the prophets see through his senses in the earth. John Van Buren said, in addition, that what I wrote should come to pass, had in every instance, as I wrote it should, in the terrible political struggle in 1840; and he said he saw through my mind that no man, could produce my letter, who had not done as I desired. The Messiah never did show, or promise a prophet, that he would on his senses, do more than John Van Buren, said I wrote I would, and did do.

On the statement of these men, no man can ever come here, who can more literally consummate these prophesies, as the Messiah showed the prophets he would on his senses, than these men said that I, who had and could, make all men act and see through my senses, had done it. The letter to Mr. Van Buren, in May, 1837, no doubt refered to by his son, is, without my then knowing anything of the prsphesies, one continued effort, marshaling the prophetic means, and showing through their use in that political struggle, I would attain the prophetic ends-the leading signs the Messiah showed the prophets should evidence his presence on the earth, in the senses of a man, till no man could have wrote that letter but the one created out of the mind, that showed them, seeing them exactly as his mind showed them to the prophets, in connection through it with his senses in the earth. I went on and wrote Mr. Van Buren, that I would attain every leading sign the religionist have said for ages, would evidence the consummation of the prophesies, using the prophetic means, and attained every one of them, as I wrote I would, where no man ever could see, that by using those means, he would attain the prophetic ends, but the man created out of the mind, showing them, without defeating the purposes God had in creating that man, who showed by using these means, I will attain the prophetic ends, on my senses in the earth. I implore Mr. Van Buren, still alive, to produce, and publish that letter, and end all questions with the world, as to whether I am the man who wrote that, using the prophetic means, I would attain their ends, as the letter will show what means I would use, and the ends I would attain through them, when all can see if they are the means the Messiah showed the prophets be would use, and through their use attain the same ends, the ends he showed were to evidence the consummation of the prophesies.

This will end the contest, and I implore Mr. Van Buren or son, to set this right by publishing the letter, or by denying it ever existed as I state. I want that letter again published, because I wrote in it, I would draw the legal, constitutional and judicial slack up in the arse of the trowsers of Clay, in one hand, and of Webster, in the other, and so carry those two great statesman about, with their vast capacities and reserch, as I pleased. As every day the people are called upon to erect monuments to those great statesmen, I want to stand so, holding one of them in each hand, evidencing their vast capacities and research, as it was proposed to have Alexander stand holding Mount Athos.

I know by the soul of God, and by the bones of my Father, that letter produced, and history, will leave me so holding them, for all time to the credit of the American people, who discern their vast capacities and research. That letter will show I wrote I could carry them about, and the nation, with its vast capacity, as I pleased, as it and history, will show whether I done it as I wrote or not. It will show whether the Messiah ever promisd to do more than I did, or can do it better, where all the promises I made that the things promised should be brought about through my will must have existed as facts to me, or could not have described and promised on them. If Mr. Van Buren takes onetenth the pains to produced that letter, that I did to hold him, that letter will appear and end this controvesy.

This Professor insisted I could do all to men, I show the Messiah could do to them, so far back as man has a record, and that I was only then playing orator to men determined to bring about my purpose, by doing to them what the Messiah, wishing to bring about his purpose, has been doing to them from all time; and admitted I could then do to men all that the Messiah did, and will have to do to a world to consummate these prophecies, making them see, act and reflect through him, entrancing them through his will, though

this Professor could not see how I done it, neither shouled he on the decrees of God, that leaves all men to conceive, understand and develop the knowledge God created them to bring about here; so that no mind, except the one created to conceive and develop it, can have any conception of it.

This Professor thought that if I, as an orator, willed to chase Graves with Cilley's ghost, that he had better be leaving "all the wealth, learning, talents, respectability, decency and understanding," making a straight coat tail sloping for "old Kentuck," where I would kill him with the ghost for his villany; though "the unterrified" could not do it with their rifles. About three years since, a man said to me the last time I was in this city before, I heard you, laying in my wagon in the Fifth Street Market, in 1840, make the best and last political speech I ever heard, saying what the Mississippians said; though the instant it was found I could control that very considerable meeting, it was full of broiling tools, calling for their great Democratic orators, "no longer sleeping, or absent on a journey."

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About 1838, Thomas Morris, then in the United States Senate, called to me across Walnut Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets, and came across to me, saying, "Mr. Riley, I have an apology to make to you. Some time since I was making a speech in the United States Senate against slavery, when the senators all gathered around, me till I became excited, when I said within fifty years, we from the north will come down towards the south, and drive you and your negroes into the sea. Mr. Calhoun said, Mr. Morris, are you not excited? Do you mean that?' I replied I was excited, and did not mean it, but meant to quote a young man in Cincinnati; but through my excitement, I had mis-quoted him, though I will now quote him correctly. He said, within fifty years of then, (1834) the great Mississippivalley would be so filled with inhabitants, that there would come a dearth among them, and they would turn towards the sun, and acquire your lands, either by purchase, or by driving you aud your negroes into the sea. that quotation," said Mr. Morris, "every senator rose and retired to his seat, leaving me to finish my speech, which I did; and during all the after time till I got through, I could have heard a pin fall in that Senate Chamber, there was such a breathless silence. At the door, Mr. Calhoun requested me at an appointed time, to come to his room, which I agreed to, and went at the time, where I found him sitting in his shirt sleeves, who said to me, after passing the usual salutations, Mr. Morris, what is the name of the young man who said what you stated?' I told him it was you. Mr. Calhoun then placed his elbows on his knees, covering his face with his hands, saying: 'now tell me what that young man said.' I repeated your sayings as before quoted. Mr. Calhoun remained in that position from seven to ten minutes, when he raised up his head, and requested me to repeat what you had said, resuming his former position. I did it. He remained in that position from five to seven minutes, when he raised his head up, with tears in his eyes, saying, Mr. Morris, that was said in no unkind feelings to us, though it is awful to think of it, but none the less true, that the places which know you and I now, will know us no more within fifty years, as that young man says, whose philosophic mind sees another structure of society is rushing upon us, in which the producers will own the land, and so will not leave a vestige of us or of our institutions and governments within that time, as he sees and said. Now, Mr. Morris, you can denounce slavery as you please, without creating one unpleasant thought in me, who see through that young man's mind, it is gone, and with it your structure of society, to be supplanted by one in which the producers will own the land."

Mr. Morris said, I asked Mr Calhoun, is there anything in what that

young man said?" He replied, "there was more than ever you or I saw before, and so much in it, that this structure of society is bound on the doom of dooms to be eradicated by the one he sees coming, where the producers will own the land divided for gain,' as he said, within fifty years.' Mr. Morris said, I then told Mr Calhoun I heard you say, "The way to get clear of "these Bank promises to pay, was to prohibit their issue and circulation, "and to prohibit the Courts from permitting them to be the subject matter "of any suit, action or prosecution, or to be received in evidence to sustain any of them, when they, ouflawed, must cease. Mr. Morris said, “ I told Mr Calhoun for saying that I called you all the opprobrious names I could think of." Mr. Calhoun said, "You did not show much sense or discernment in doing it, as you should see that young man has in thsse few words, attained the end you and I have exhausted our lives in endeavoring to bringabout, without ever being able to see the means of reaching it." Mr. Morris said Mr. Calhoun said to him, "When you return to Cincinnati, I request you to apologize to that young man for your abuse of him, telling him you do it at my request-which I am now doing to you, Mr. Riley," said Mr. Morris, " as Mr. Calhoun requested me to."

There was Mr. Calhoun, saying, looking through my mind, "Within fifty years the Millennium must be accomplished; "where there are but fifteen years of them remaining-though a world of idiots say it will take ages to accomplish it; while John Van Buren told James W. Taylor, in 1848, the man who said, "The way to get clear of these Bank issues, is to prohibit "their issue and circulation, and to prohibit them from being the subject "matter of any suit, action or prosecution in any Court, or to be received in evidence to sustain any of them," would liberate every person in ihe earth before he died, and give them their equal rights. Here are two men saying the same thing of me after consultation, or they could not have so identified me on Bank notes, and they both said I would, during my life, do exactly what the Messiah showed the prophets he would do during his life for ages; and these men said it without any reference to the prophecies. These two men saw through my mind, that I would compel other men to see, act and reflect through it, till I would compel a world to see, act and reflect as I desired, and through it changed their governments; as I contend the Messiah will bring about his prophetic changes, and as he caused the prophets to see, he would, by compelling a world to see, act, feel and reflect as he desires, through his will. John Van Buren defied the man, who had one of my letters on the Sub-treasury, to be shown, who had not done, acted, seen and reflected as I desired, though they nor I had ever known each other, so making out that I made all these men see through me, till I carried the Subtreasury, as I contend the Messiah will create and consummate the prophecies, by compelling a world to see, act and reflect as he desires; so that the Messiah converting a world through his will to act as he desires, will be a hard man to contend against, as John Van Buren said I was on the Subtreasury, who could make their powerfulest marshals turn their charge, and that of their division as I wished it, till it alarmed the Opposition, finding themselves so caving in at the instant they anticipated annihilating all before them, till they met these unexpected changes.

About April, 1849, I went to see Isaiah Wing, Esq. sick, who said to me, pointing to a newspaper where the case for a school-house has been in Court. I read it and said to him, "What do you mean by that?" He put his right hand on his heart, and said to me, "I must die, though you think not. But I know and you do not; and I cannot die without asking you, cannot the Court take the case from the Jury?" I answered, it could not. He replied,