Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
From the Louisville Journal.
A Sag-Night Newspaper Upon General
Jackson.

JdCkSO0.
We call the especial attention of our rea-
ders to the following from an editorial ar
tlcle in yesterdays Louisville Courier. one
OF the most violent of the Sag-Nicht na-
gers OF this city:
"A Pr,cate letter written by jackson in
1S45, just before his death, MEANLY
VlLLIFfING BUCHANAN, charging
him with cowardice and falsehood, is shame.
lessly dragged forth to degrade Buchanan.
THE INFAMY OF THE AFFAIR
RESTS UPON JACKSON for WRITING his
letter, and next upon those who have
brought it to. light for political effect now
for the first time. They who cheap oppro-
brium mountain high upon the grave of
Jackson are they who have dishon-
ored him and degraded themselves bv
publishing the unfortunate prirate letter Of
THE INSANELY VINDICTIVE OLD
TYRANT, who in this very letter, proved
that, to the last, NO TOUCH OF JIIS-
TICE OR MAGNANIMITY TOWARDS
AN OPPONENT OR RIVAL EVER
ENTERED HIS BREAST, AND THAT
HIS ONLY USE FOR FRIENDS WAS
TO MAKE TOOLS OF THEM. If
Buchanan had in 1927, instead of faithful
ly giving truthful testimony, as he did,
corroborated Jackson's charges against
Clay, jackson never would have written
his infamous secret letters of 1851!
We believe that HISTORY CON
VICTS JACKSON OF SLANDERING
CLAY, AND THEN CONVICTS HIM
OF SLANDERING BUCHANAN BE-
ECAUSE HE WOULD NOT PERJURE
HIMSELF by supporting the SANDER "a
gainst Clay. If any Democrats
should be displeased at our opinion of
jackson: If they think we should admit
the truth of a COWARDLY, secret, and
SLANDEROUS letter which assails the
truth and moral courage of Buchanan only
because it purports to have been written
BY Jackson; all we have to say is, that
they have mistaken our character for indie
pendence and love of truth and Justice,
and their mistake can make not the slight
est change in our convictions and conduct
But acc don't belieue there as a candid Dem
ocrdt an America arhc does not entertain
precisely oar oaon opinion Of .Jdckson's Sc
cret letter slandering Buchanan, which
ONLY DIsGRACED THE WRITER.
We suppose that the rest of the Sag
Nicht papers, though they may have too
much sense to endorse openly such shock
ing calumnies of the mighty dead by one
of the most earnest of their brethren, will,
for policy's sake, avoid administering to
those calumnies the terrible rebuke they
deserve Undoubtedly the great mass of
the Sag Nicht editors will at heart accord
with the one who has thus attempted to
rescue their candidate from shame and in
fanny by the direct charge of shame and in
fanny upon the remarkable man who made
their party, and was widely worshipped by
them throughout his life, and has been al
most canonized as their patron-saint since
his death. They would unqucstionably
see the shining names of all their great de-
parted blackened forever with the foulest
and most internal vituperation, ay, see the
mouldering bones of them all torn from the
earth and burned by the hands ofthe COM
mon hangman, rather than let suspicion
|. of the preparation of wrong rest moment
upon the conduct of their present candi-
date for the Presidency.
The Jealous Sag Nicht paper, from which
we have quoted, charges that Gen Jack
), son was mean yillifer, charges that he
was an insanely rindictive old tyrant who
never knew a touch of justice or magma
nimity, charges that his only use for friends
was to make tools of them, and charges
that, even upon his deathbed, he made him.
self infamous by writing a cowardy and
slanderous letter which disgraced only the
, writer And this same Sag-Nicht editor
, closes by saying that he does not believe
, there is a candid Democrat in America who
, does not entertain precisely the opinion of
the letter that he himself expresses. We
concur with him SO far as to admit, thai,
, even if the rest of the Sag-Nicht editors do
not agree with him in his horrible calum-
! nies upon the dead hero, who, after lifes
, fitful fever, sleeps well beneath the shades
of the Hermitage, they are acting as if they
did. He is but saying in venomous words
, what they are saying in sacrilegious deeds.
In upholding or trying to uphold james
Buchanan for his infamous conduct in 1925
, and afterwards toward both Mr.. Clay and
; Gen. Jackson, they dishonor and degrade
and defe the memory of jackson, who has
, recorded with his own hand that Mr.. Buch-
anan was guilty of cowardice and falsehoOd,
and that Mr.. Buchanan proposed that he
should sell himself for offce-a proposition
: involving such deep corruption that he
: spurned it with indignation.
This Sag-Nicht maligner of the glorious
, dead is certainly right in the view he has
taken that either the character of Mr..
Buchanan or the fame of General jackson
must fall, and so he kicks the dead lion for
the sake of the lving-but we will not say
dog. Let the whole people of the country
make up their minds how they will decide
between James Buchanan and Andrew
Jackson. Let all, who in their own minds
decide as the Sag-Nicht editor we quote
has done, have the boldness, like him, to
proclaim their decision to the world. As
, they can no longer take refuge under the
miserable pretext that Jackson's deathbed
letter was a forgery, they should either
, abandon James Buchanan to rot and tester