Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-26
From the Louisville Journal
buchanan and Jackson,

Inc American papers nave puDll-neu u ieter
of Gen. Jackson's dated February %, 1915, in
which he not only charged Mr. Buchanan with
moral cowardice but explicitly stated that Mr..
Buchanan excited his Indignation in 1925 by try.
ing 10 induce him to enter into an affair of bar
gain and corruption with Mr.. Clay. Aud pray
how do the Buchanan papers meet this terrible
and damning development made in Gen. jack .
sons letter. Why. they meet it by getting that
weak but well meaning man. the old hero's adop.
ted son. 10 say thai he diSapproues the pabiica
ton ofhis .jathsr's letter.
The adopted son says he thinks, that when his
fathers letter published, the letter which
called it forth and to which it was reply ought
To have been published also. O well. nothing is
easier han to publish that letter, and we may
here say that it written by most arden.
personal and political friend of Gen. Jackson,
who held high office under him during his
entire administration and was extremely well
known throughout the whole country as an
tive and influential politician. Here is what his
letter to Gen. jackson said about Mr.. Buchanan:
The truth is General, have never had any very
great respect for Mr. Buchanan, and of late | have
even had less than formerly. He did not come out
upon the subject of that "bargain intrigue, and cor
ruption" charge upon Messrs. Clay and Adams ia
1926, he ought to have DONE and as was expected
of him Besides have heard him say.not more than
month ago that he did not and neper beieped thore
any truth in the charge. This occurred at Mr.. IS
dinner tableand the remarks addressed to Judge
Mangum the President of the Senate. But having
taken place at the time and place when IL did, ! have
said nothing abou. ii to any one.
II was in reply to mis- that Gen. jackson WROTE
"your observations pih regard to Mr.. buchanan
are correct" Ii was in reply To this that Gem
jackson gave the denial to Mr.. Buchanan by
contradicting his statement that he did not believe
and never had believed that there was any truth
in the charge of bargain aud corruption against
(fIn,v Il IL II. i
his direct statement rs to the efforts of Mr.. Bnch
anan in 1926 to induce him to make a corrupt bar
gain with Mr.. Clay. If Mr.. Buchanan's supper
ters think that the force of Gen. Jackson's dis
tinguished friend to whom it written, they
are abundantly welcome to the mitigation.
tits amazingly easy, the light of developments
since made, to seee why Mr.. Buchanan took oc-
casion TO declare in 1915 to Judge Mangum OF
the Senate that he did not believe and never had
believed there was any truth in tho charge of
bargain and corruption against Mr.. Clay. Mr..
Maugum was n confidential friend n bosom friend
Of Mr.. Clay more intimate with Mr.. Clay than
! any other Senator was. Nc. Buchanan knew
and agonizlngly felt himself to be entirely at
! Mr., Clay's mercy,that illustrious man being in
the possession of facts with which he could al
any moment crush him, and which he had threat
ened to publish, and which he had been deferred
from publishing only by the most earnest, pitt
full abject. aud bumating entreaties. He knew
too, thatMr. Clay had broken off all persona
intercourse with him and was in the habit of de-
nouneing him on all proper occasions for his dis
honorable and most shameful conduct in The
Presidential canvass of 1874 in Pennsylvania
Knowing all these things, he trembled daily an,
hourly lest the revelation which he had so long
prevented Mr., Clay from making should be made
Being no longer permitted to hold intercours,
with Mr. Clay, his only plan TO seek out Mr.
Clay's peculiar personal friends and make pro
testations to them to be reported to the grea
statesman for the modification of his wrath an,
Indignation