Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-20


proves that the debts which be intended
his estate to pay, were not of bis own con-
tracing; and that the adopted son in re-
tanning the private letters marked A. j.,
has violated the trust which required him
to hand over these letters to Mr.. Blair.
Gen. Jackson foresaw that the adopted son
might sell the Hermitage, but he did not
suppose that the papers necessary to the
defence of his character would be diverted
from their proper owner, in order to give
countenancc to his calumniators and re-
vilers. fa
The letter Of Gen. Jackson which we
shall publish, dated May IL, 1874, will en-
able our readers to see how imperfectly
Judge Catron understood Gen. Jackson at
that period. Gen. Jackson was not then
willing to see Mr.. Buchanan made Presi-
dent, nor was he at any time afterwards.
If this had been his desire, the fact would
not have been hidden from the nominating
conventions of l840-IS44-1S4S-1852
He would not have told Major Lewis that
he was a corrupt mamie would not have
advised Major DoneIson to decline the edi-
torShip of the Washington Union he
would not have declared in numerous let
ters to Mr.. Blair that the Democratic par
ty would fall to pieces, and pass into the
hands of the nulifers and seceders-he
would not have done all these things if Judge
Catron's recollection is to be relied on.
Gen. Jackson was distinguished for his
politeness, and doubtless, knowing Judge
Catron's friendship for Mr. Buchanan, per-
mitted the Judges own overweight eulo-
gums in favor of his friend, to pass without
special comment.
This was enough for the Judge who, with
fancy full of "indented cures discovers
that Gen. Jackson had abandoned Van
Buren,, and wanted Buchanan to be made
President in order to annex Texas. Buch-
anan, who voted for the admission of Tex
as in order to make free States out of Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Ten
nesSee. Buchanan, who was in favor of
the prohibition of slavery in 1920, and who
was the reviler of Jefferson and Madison
in every period of his life. This is asking
too much, Judge, more than credulity itself
can stand, and more than the public will
concede either to you, or to any and all of
your associates in the attempt to SANDER
Gen. Jackson, and bolster up the cause of
that Democracy which is now paying the
penalty of its sins by giving up its leaders
to the public Indignation.
The DisunIonists of the SOuIh-Where
are Thcyl
The Charleston Mercury, (the organ of
the Southern Disunionists,) says:
There is not a single public man in her limits,
(South Carolina not one Of her present Represent
atives or Senators in Congress- who is not pledged
to the lips in favor Of disunion.
These men. pledged to the lips in favor
of disunion," are almost without exception
the democratic nominees for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency. But this
is not the case in South Carolina only. In
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, indeed, in
all of the Southern States the diSunioniSts,
and all whose principles tend to disunion,
are found herled together supporting the
same ticket. Why is this so Is it for
any other reason than this-that they re-
gard the success of the democratic ticket as
most likely to result in the continued agi-
tation of the question of slavery, and in the
end effect what they so earnestly desire, q
dissolution of the Union and the formation
of Southern Confederacy we may
safely assume that this is the secret spring
of their action. They know that Mr. Buch-
anan is "facile," that he lacks moral cour-
age" and that bold bad men can bend
him to their purposes. Whipped in 1850,
Frustrated everywhere, these men gathered
strength with the election of Franklin
Pierce, and have since succeeded in getting
possession of the administration and giving
direction to the purposes of the democratic
party. 1t really alarming to contemplate
their rapid strides from the lowest depths
of depression in 1850 to their present posi-
ton of power and influence. Only men
intent on the pursuit Of one object, Jealous,
lnfinching, untiring, ever vigilant, could
have so triumphed over the conservative
Union sentiment of the democratic party of
1850 and but for the weakness and plan
~ of President Pierce, we doubt whether,
with all their energy and talents, they
would have found the path to success open
TO them. All who properly estimate the
value of the Union, the manifold blessings
i dispenses upon US as people, and the
obligations we are under to the patriotic SOL
diers and statesmen who formed it, to
our free institutions TO posterity,
should endeavor to thwart the disunionists
in their present struggle to retain the ad-
Of the government in their
hands by the elevation Of Mr.. Buchanan,
who is but second edition of Mr.. Pierce
Fillmore and Donelson, in 1850, discharged
their whole duty to the country in their
patriotic and high souled efforts to destroy
the hydra of disuniou, and around them
now unionists and conservatives everywhere
should gather for another, and, we hope,