leaving home any length of time, and the Governor calculated
to go the next day or day but one--that the Governor told him
if he would accompany him, he would make him _an aid_ with
the _pay_ of a _colonel_, and _bear his expences_, and that
he would defer going until the next steam boat; that he
wished to take time to consider the Governor's proposals as
he informed the Governor--and soon after told him he would
accompany him.--SETH C. BALDWIN, Junior. _Warren County,
March 1816_."

The Journal never charged Young with having informed Merrill that he
"was not now Secretary, but should be to-morrow." At it again Merrill.
Will you certify that you did not give a friendly hint to a gentleman
who was going to Albany, that you had a connexion who would make an
excellent clerk in the Secretary's office, and request his name to be
given to Mr. Young, to whom Young replied, _I am not now Secretary but
shall be to-morrow_? I believe an intimation to this effect was given
in the Journal, which you blink with as much ingenuity as though you
had been bred in the same school with Mr. Young's colleagues. Amongst
the great number to whom Mr. Young _did give_ the information that he
was shortly to be Secretary, _you_, then it seems were omitted!

The facts disclosed in the following certificate, cannot fail to remind
one of the fable of the "Country maid, and her milk pail."

"I hereby certify, that while riding in company with Samuel
Young from Ballston to Albany, when going to the _winter
session_ of 1815, the day before the legislature met, the
said Young informed me that he expected to be Secretary of
State when the republican council should be chosen; that he