The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-16
T HE ISLANDER OF THE NEW YORK EVENING POST

Some days ago the New York Evening Post charged di
rectly and asserted positively, that Mr. Buchanan while
Secretary Of State Ia leter) to Mr.. Polk recon-
msnding $50 900 be deposited in Simon Oameron bank
for the purpose of being used buy up the Washington
Go6e and establish the Union newspaper in its place
This letter. continued the Post us file in the de-
partment Washington 1t contains sufficient evidence
credbly informed send its author State prison
under the subreasury law and of the grossest
ii not the grossest of maeasance in office which has
occurred since the subtreasury law passed" We
posed the nendacous and sanderous character of those
charges by proving from the that the $4,000
deposited in CameronS bank four months before Mr. Blu
chanan appointed Secretary of State and twenty
months before the subessury law passed. and there
FORE that the Post had been guilty of uuquestonabe false
hood and calumny, and that such letter could
have been written by Mr.. Buchanan.
The Post now Acknowledges the Islander in the form in
which it gave currency to the CHARGE b6 not having the
maniness to etract the fasehood seeks escape by
suberfuge that is dsgracefu Its original offence We
quote the confession of the Post After stating the points
made by US in reply, the Post proceeds:
That is true the law not in force when the letter
wren and another fact in his defence equally
that written before he appointed Secretary Of
State and not therefore, being officer of the government
he could not have been visited with the penalties Of the
if had been in force Mr. Buchanan entitled to the
benefit Of both these corrections and TO the admission that
what is State prison offence State prison of
fence in 1874 We editors often obliged to write
about transaction which all the parties it desire keep
out sight much possible and without full norma
on either they the public desire but pre-
pared to give precise information and, after have
done shall expect the Union designate the parcu
lar fact in the other day which, true would
show that Mr. Buchanan ought not to be elected President
What apology for the grossest SANDER which malg-
nifty is capable of originating ave wrote editors are
often obliged to write &C. says the POST and yet the
editors wrote that they crediby informed that Mr.
Buchanan had been guilty of offence which would send
him to the State prison Such editors write for the Post
may be obliged write caumnes Of this kind but no hon.
est editor descend such disgacefu mode of
fare.
But the Post proceeds to complete its infamy by
disclosing the fact that the very time its editors wrote
the lsehood they had in their reach the evidence which
convicts them They say that they rely upon letter
of Francis P. BLAIR to public meeting in New York
the 29th of April 1885, to sustain their position That
either in the possession Of the editors within
their reach when they wrote their calumnious charge
That letter states the fact that the $4,000 deposite
made the 4h of November 1874 and with that fact be-
fore them, they deliberately charged Mr. Buchanan whilst
Secretary of State with procuring Mr. Polk violate the
sub-easury law which they knew did not pass until Au-
gust 1885, and that for such violation Mr. Buchanan ought
to be in the State prison But the Post says editors
were Obliged thus to write and further that they made
their charge because they crey informed that Mr.
Buchanan was guilty. BY whom they credibly in
oaedP We led TO infer that Mr. Blair is their credible
witness but Mr. Bars letter which the Post now stands
kp2 On he I
the fact expressly that the deposite made before Mr.
Buchanan Secretary of State and long before the sub
treasury law passed. and therefore, fatty contradcs the
assertion of the Post
We have no idea of being led of by the Posts subter
fuge into discussion of Mr. Blas complaints as to the
purchase of the Globe and the establishment Of the Wash
ington Union That is the subject Of Mr. Bairs letter
and in it he refers to letter which be says was written
by Mr. Buchanan and which he saw in the departments
We have inquired at the Treasury Department and are
told that nobody there knows anything of such letter
cept that Mr. Blair there time ago nqurng for
letter Of the kind is not pretended by Mr. Blair that
M Buchanans letter susans the charge of the Post but
that it was written not to Mr. Polk but Mr. Tyler and
before the deposite made in 1874 and whilst Mr. Bu
chsnan was private citizen in Pennsylvania We have
heard nothing Of such letter except what from Mr.
Blair If any such letter is in existence have no objec
ton to its publication have fears that II
word or sentiment that be tortured into a corrob-
Grafton Of the UNANIMOUSLY bellous charge Of the Post
We do not concede that in a matter of this kind Mr.
Blair credible witness but he is the only witness re-
lied by the Post quote all that Mr. Blair says which
connects Mr. Buchanan with the deposite:
Mr.. buchanan It appears from a letter file in the
Treasury department. aoicsd escape hs part Of
the rsPOnsibIuy for the delicate part Of The operation
the taking the $50 900 establish organ Mr. Tyler was
willing to let Mr. Cameron have the $50 out OF the pub
lie treasury to make provision for the political banng on
which much depended but Mr. Buehanan tOa. 10 b.
special beneficiary IN the premiership consrd-
cred ri's Prscdnfion that he shouid rrng recommend
Mr. Cameron fit recipient Of tbs grace from The admins,
traitor, and Of trust from The treasury"
This is the Posts proof and all of its proof for the in
famous charge that Mr. Buchanan recommended to Mr..
Polk to deposite $4,000 with Mr. Cameron to buy the
Globe We repeat that the editors Of the Post made the
charge with this evd~ce Of Mr. Blair either before them
within their reach The deductions of Mr. Blair are
worthless unless his facts sustain them The only fact
which he pretends to sne s that Mr. Buchanan
mended, in writing Mr. Cameron IL recipient Of the
$4,000 We suppose, If Mr.. Buchanan wrote anything
| (of which we have other knowledge or information
than tho above statement Of Mr. Bla he endorsed the
solvcncy and ability Of Mr. Camerons bank deposit
tory OF $4,000 Of the public money Now ask whether
this fact furnishes presxt for the gross libel Of the
| Post
We have said that have idea OF being led of into
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