Daily American organ., 1856-08-25
AMERICAN ORGAN.


A Sag Nicht Newspaper on Gen. Jackson.
We call the especial attention of our readers
says the Louisville Journal to the following from
an editorial article in yesterdays Louisville Cou-
ricr, of the most violent of the Sag Nicht pa
pers of this city:
A private letter written by Jackson in l845,
just before his death, meanly viliying Buchanan,
charging him with cowardice and fsehood, is
shamelessly dragged forth to degrade Buchanan.
The infamy OF the affair rests upon jackson for
writing his letter, and next upon those who have
brought 1t to light for political effect now for the
first time. They who heap opprobrium noun
tain high upon the grave of Jackson" are they
who have dishonored him and degraded themselves
by publishing the unfortunate private letter of the
insanely vindictive old tyrant, who, In this very
letter, proved that to the last, touch Of justice
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 faithfully
giving truthful testimony, as he did, corroborated
Jackson's charges against Clay, Jackson never
would have written his infamous secret letter of
l846l We believe that history convicts
jackson Of slanderng Clay, and then convicts him
of slandering Buchanan because he would not per-
jure HIMSELF by supporting the SANDER against
Clay. If any Democrats should be dis
we should admit the truth of cowardly, secret,
and slanderous letter, which assails the truth and
moral courage of Buchanan only because it pur-
ports to have been written by jackson; ell we
have to say is, that they have mistaken eur char
acter for independence and love of truth and JUS
tice, and their mistake can make not the slightest
change in our convictions and conduct. But we
don't believe there is a candid Democrat in Amer
lea who does not entertain precisely our own opin-
Inln Taal 1affa ola
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 shocking calumnies Of the
mighty dead by one of the most earnest of their
brethren will, for pelicys sake, avoid administer
ing to those calumnics 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 infamy by the direct charge of shame
and infamy upon the remarkable man who made
their party, and was wildly worshipped by them
throughout his life, and has been almost canonized
as their patron-sant since his death. They would
unquestionably see the shinng-names of all their
great departed blackened forever with the foulest
and most Internal vituperation, ay, see the mould
ing bones Of them all torn from the earth and
burned by the hands of the common hangman,
rather than let suspicion of the preparation of
present candidate for the Presidency.
The jealous Sag-Nicht paper, from which we
have quoted, charges that General jackson was
mean vilhfer, charges that he was an insanely vim
dictive old tyrant who never knew touch Of JUS
tice or magnanimity, charges that his only use for
friends was to make tools of them, and charges
that, even upon his death-bcd he made himself
infamous by writing cowardly 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 hims slf expresses.
We concur with him SO far as to admit that,
even if the rest Of the Sag -Nicht editors do not
agree with him, his horrible ealumnies upon the
dead hero, who, after lifes ftful fever, sleeps well
beneath the shades Of the Hermitage they are act
ing 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 General jackson, they
dishonoD and degrade, and defle the memory of
jackson, who has recorded with his own hand that
Mr.. Buchanan was guilty of cowardice and false
hood, and that Mr.. Buchanan proposed that he
should sell himself for ofice-a proposition invov
ing such deep corruption that he spurned it with
indignation. tW
This Sag -Ncht maligner of the glorious dead is
the character of Mr.. Buchanan or the fame of Gem
eral jackson must fall, and so he kicks the dead
lion for the sake of the living-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-Night 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 death-bed letter was forgery they
should either abandon James Buchanan to rot and
tester in his shame, take the responsibility like
their brother here of vindicating their candidate
by denouncing Jackson as mean, cowardly, and
infamous sanderer, and an insanely vindictive old
tyrant without one touch of justice or magnanimty
In his soul.
Whatever General Jackson's political enemies,
OF whom we were one may have said of him in the
long and fierce strifes that ragged in his lifetime
nations verdict consecrating his memory, has been
pronounced, and that verdict will not be reversed.
Ii is resoundng forever through the atmosphere
of our country, and its echoes are the deathknel
Of the political hopes of James Buchanan.
Who Will Endorse Hint
The Hon. L. M. Keitt, who delivered the speech