"Here my dear Sir are these savage Irishmen, whom I gladly deliver over to you, to be dealt with as the Queen’s most excellent Majesty may think fit."
During Marcy’s campaign for governor, his opponents ridiculed him over a list of expenses he had submitted for reimbursement while he was a judge.  The list included “mending work done to pantaloons…50 cents.”  He was thereafter frequently portrayed with a “50 cent” patch on his pants.
"Is this the boasted liberty of the soil? Is this the law for an adopted citizen?"
"Stop! Stop!"
Habeas Corpus.
"I thank your Excellency for your promptness, and shall represent your conduct in such a light to her most gracious Majesty, that I have not a bit of a doubt she will reward you with a pair of new breeches!!"
" Is this the Justice of the self-styled People’s Party?!"
Drawn On Stone [Political Prints from the 1830's and 1840's]
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E.W. Clay
Executive Maercy and the Bambers
Publisher: H. R. Robinson
Lithograph
1838		 Irishmen John Bamber, Sr. and his son, James Bamber fled to the U.S. under suspicion of murdering an Irish policeman.  Governor William L. Marcy decided to turn them over to the British consul for extradition, angering the immigrant community of New York.