Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-03
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From pamphlet entitled Short Answers to
Reckless Fabrcations against the Democratic Can
diaate for President, James Buchanan, = we make
the following extracts:
Nh. BUCHANAN AND GEN. JAcKsoN.AMR. BrcnAN-
An AND Mr.. CLAY.-Andrew jackson Donelson,
whose defence Of Mr.. Buchanan appears in announcer
part of this pamphlets has been ransaoki"g soms os
Gen. Jackson's private letters, to lind renections
against Mr.. Buchanan. A very brief answer only Is
necessary here. Two facts will go far to show that
Mr. Buchanan bore relation to General jackson,
such "a no man ever maintained who did not secure
the confidence of the old hero After his ten years
service in the u S. House of Representatives, Mr..
retired to private life and one of the first acts OF
General jackson, after that, was to make voluntary
tender to him of the important mission to Russia
The other fact is that which defes denal-that MIR.
Polk appointed MIR. Buchanan Secretary OF State in
his administration after consultation with General
Jackson, who was then residing at the Hermitage,
and Who recommended and approved the selection.
On this latter point, the facts are alike ample anu
conclusive.
The following from the Washington Union, con-
ducted bv Hon. A. o. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee,
and personally known to all the parties is so full
and complete on this subject, that We copy it en-
tire:
GEN. JAcKsoN.-MR CLAY.-MR. BUCHANAN
The friends of Gen. Jackson will read the paragraph
1t is high time that Andrew jackson should step
forward to arrest the ruthless of ngra,tade and
hyeua-li malignity, which is being waged on the
memory of his father We trust that the son will
be no longer restrained by feelings OF deicscy nom
coming forward to shield the fame OF his ilusloas
father. from the wicked abuse Of the confidence
which he reposcd in such ingratcs as Blair and Don.
elson There is no lower deep of political degrade
ton, than that to which the man has descended,
who would take advantage of the speeches. silence
Of the grave to abuse the confidence OF his beneactor
with impunity.
We suppose the late publication Of what purports
TO be a part of private letter of Gen. jackson, IN
which he refers to the connection of Mr. Buchanan
with the charge of "bargain and intrigue that IN
volved Gen. jackson and Mr.. Clay in an angry con-
troversy, has induced Major Jackson to express the
purpose indicated in the paragraph below. we un-
derstand the Nashville Union to intimate that Major
Donelson has furnished this extract to his organ in
Nashville, for publication. The object of its publ
cation is to exhume from the graves OF jackson and
CLAY quarrel which was buried with their bodies,
under the hope of exciting the feelings OF their re-
spective friends against Mr.. Buchanan. We know
with how much ardOr and earneStness the people OF
Tennessee and Kentucky contest the ascendancy in
their political Conflicts but We KNOW too, that they
are as generous, as brave. and noble people as
live We think, therefore, We risk nothing in pre-
dieting that the effort to revive personal quarrel
between the friends of the two men, whose memories
are respectively dear to the two people, will cause
both to turn with loathing and disgust from so I'M
manly mode of warfare. 1t fortune to
know something personally of Gen. Jackson's feel
ings and opinions in respect to public men, as also
to know from actual observation, the relations be-
tween Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Buchanan. Upon this
knowledge, We have the most perfect conviction,
that whatever feelings Gen. jackson and Mr.. Clay
carried to their graves towards each other they car
ried none towards Mr.. Buchanan, but those of earn
f.;o Rofo otin thn nh rye.
ferred to, We commend to our readers, conclu
sve to the attempt to misrepresent the rela
tons subsist;ng between Gen. Jackson AID Mr.. Clay
and Mr.. Buchanan, the following extract from late
number OF the Nashville Union:
at is supposed that Gen. Jackson and Mr.. Clay
knew more about this matter, and how far MIR. Bu-
chanan was answerable, than any other two men
that ever lived and that if Gen. jackson and MIR.
Clay could excuse MIR. Buchanan of any wrongful
intention, and honor him with their confidence,
one else can have proper cause of complaint against
him. That Mr.. Buchanan's explanation of the mis-
understanding that had grown out of the converse
ton between himself and Gen. jackson, was entire
" satisfactory to Mr.. Clay, is matter of history
maky evidences of which could be given, but the
following will Suffice"
Washington Union.
Mr. CLAY TO Mr.. Books" Mr.. Buchanan has
presented his communication to the public and al
though he evidently labors throughout the whole of
essential particular to sustain the General Indeed
] could not desire stronger statement from Mr..
Buchanan"
Ex-Governor Letcher, the bosom friend of Mr.
Clay, writing from Lexington, Ky August IS, 1927,
says; u
spouse to the hero was received. This answer is
well put together. As they say in Connecticut,
there is great deal of good reading in Bucks
ply. 1t is modest and gentle, yet strong and con-
elusive. am truly delighted with the manner in
which Mr.. B. has acquitted himself"
We might also quote from Prentice's biography
of Mr.. Clay, written many years ago, in which he
said that Mr.. Buchanan had acquitted himself in this
matter like an honorable man." But the fact that
Mr.. Clay did not censure Mr.. Buchanan, after being
made to understand the facts, is too notorious for
argument.
As to General jackson, it is matter interviewer
with the history OF the country-whatever scandal
GUS betrayals of private confidence men may now
make by parading letters shamefuly perverted, and
that were never intended to be published-that a
warm and cordial intimacy and mutual regard and
confidence existed between him and Mr.. Buchanan
to the last hour of the old hero's life.
All these old, unpleasant difficulties reuvenated
by the Banner, through the aid Of Maj. Donelson,
were enacted from 1926 to 1927. Four years after
wards, upon retiring from Congress, in 1881, Mr..
Buchanan received from Gen. Jackson unsolicited
the high compliment and trust of the mission to Rus
sia, IN which capacity he rendered the country the
important service of negotiating the first commercial
treaty between the United States and Russia, which
secured to our commerce the ports of the Baltic and
the Black Sea.
Mr. Polk is known to have gone to the Hermit
age, upon the eve of his departure, for the special
purpose OF consulting Gen. jackson on the subject
OF his Cabinet. Pennsylvania, led by James Blu
chanan, had contributed her electoral vote to his
election Cor. jackson had known Mr.. buchanan
intimately for twenty years. The consequence was.
Mr. Polk invited Mr.. Buchanan to accept the port.
folio Of the State Department. the head of his Cabi-
net 1t was in view of all these things, and the
kssve importance OF the mission, that President
Pierce sent him as Minister to England And Il 10