Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-16
From the St. Louis intelligence
J0meS buchanan.

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| The developments which have been recently
made, touching the character of this gentleman,
| are Understanding. Nothing is now wanted to
perfect the proof that Mr.. Buchanan was guilty
Of the moral assassination Of Henry Clay.
The facts in proof are, that while the election
Of a President was pending in the House Oh Re-
personalities, Mr.. Buchanan went to Clay's room
and in the presence of Governor Letcher of Ken
lucky offered to Mr.. Clay the Secretaryship in
about these words: Ifyou, Mr.. Clay, viii support
Gen. Jackson, 'he @iA not 90 oM ofthis room. 10
md a secretary Of STATE" Mr.. Clay rejects the
offer in about these words; "7here IS no timber
here ii for a Secretary Of State, unless it is goa
III. Buchanan" Being thus repused, he asked
pledge from Mr.. Clay and Governor fletcher,
never to mention what had passed
TWAS after this, as every one knows, that Blu
chanan induced General jackson to charge that
Mr.. Clay, through Buchanan, had offered to potc
for him, Jackson, If he aoould make Clay Secreta
~ of State. Every one also knows that this
unjust charge, this cruel calumny, morally de-
stroyed, murdered Mr.. Clay.
Mr.. Clay and Gov. Letcher, holding themselves
bound by their promise, never revealed what Bu-
chanan had said to them in Mr.. Clay's room, till
they became satisfied, Notwithstanding Buchan-
ans tleniai Of starting the Islander, that he was
in fact the guilty cdlumaidtor hiaseiy.
1t was in lS45 that Gov. Letcher wrote to Blu,
chanan that he should publish the facts. Mr.. Blu
chanan's answer to Governor Letcher was vir-.
tually an admission of his guilt He said in
substance, 1 don't reme,aber Saying dny thing to
you and Mr.. Clay in has ROOM. 6at 4 kaou you
promised me to keep IL secret, and hold you, 70
yomr promise.
Did an honest man ever make such an answer
befores But the last Louisville journal contains
another item of proef that is cracyying. 1t is
the testimony of General Jackson. There has
been already published in this paper conclusive
proof that Gen. Jackson warned Mr.. Polk not to
put am confidence an Bnchaaaa--tidth he tcdS
priaeipled and not to be trusted. But Mr.. Polk
had already appointed Buchanan and the advice
came too late.
Tho letter Of jackson was writteHtu friend
in 1916, in which he says that in the matter of
this old charge of the sale of Office by Mr.. Adams
to Clay for his vote, he regarded Mr.. Buchanan's
conduct as grossly corrupt" He says it is a
fact that Buchanan came to him and wished him
to let his friends say that he, Jackson, would
make Clay Secretary if he was elected. But he
refused TO do so; he regarded Mr.. Bachanan's
proposition as "yross corrnptioa.n This letter
Is now in possession Of Allen A. Hall, Esq, Ed
itor of the Nashville Banner. 1t was Mr.. Blu
chanan, then, who went in the first place to
jackson, and asked his permission TO offer Mr.
CLAY the office. Jackson says in his letter, he
repealed the gross CORRUPTION of the PROPOSE
ton with the hossst inasiisaatica ii deserved.
After this he tells jackson that he only wanted
ito combat thea CLAY aud Adams) with their
own weapons,a Tina; Mr. Clay had offered to
vote for jackson for the Secretary 5 place which
statement was amonstrous falschood, as is prov
ed hs Gov. Letcher and BY his own letter to
Gov. l.. in 1915, when he says to Letcher: Il
don't remember SAYING anything to you and Mr..
Clay, but goa promised to keep i secret. asd I
hold yea to il"
No wonder that jackson should have advised
Presiden, Polk not 10 trust Mr. Bachaaan. No
wonder he should have considered hin. ''oorrapt.
Can any honest manconsider otherwise lnthe
name Of truth and mercy, what are the sins for
which man ought to be condemned in this
world or in the world to GOMEZ What is that
objectionable offence, which, makes It more sin,
fal and daholical in its nature and blacker in its
hue than any other, admits of no mitigation
even in the sight Of Gods Bot 1t is this man upon
whose integrity such reliance is now placed BY
our BLACK Democrats TO save the country