Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-26
GENERAL Jackson, dated, Hermitage, July 18th,

1871
Eighteen years afterwards, when Gen.
jackson was, 6guratively speaking, stand
ing with one foot in his grave, he deliber-
ately put on record his solemn conviction,
that Mr.. Buchanan, when he approached
him as detailed above, did 6eIicUe that there
nOas a perfect understanding 6st,oeeH Adams
and Clay about the Presidency and the Secrc-
tary of State" and to give emphasis to this
declaration, he added, This l An SURE OPP
How, then, without touching the merits
of the question" can Mr. Buchanan be
shown to have mo connection with it?"
We are gratifed to learn that our neigh
bors look with Indignation upon the reck-
less assaults" upon Gen. Jackson's reputa-
ton by the Louisville Courier. Reckless"
however, is a lnild term to characterize
what the Courier said; and, we fear, will
have little influence upon that advocate of
the election of Mr.. Buchanan. Indeed, so
silent have been the Democratic presses in
regard to its malicious aSperSions Of the
reputation of Gen. Jackson, it returns to
the subject and in its issue of last Friday,
comes down upon the old chief again as
follows:
There was no bargain, but there would have
been one if Mr.. Buchanan could have had his
way, or else the testimony given by Jackson
upon his desth-bed was falsehOod. Did An
drew Jackson pass out of the word lying Or
telling the truth2-LOuisUiLLeJ Journal.
Have you not thousand times, directly or
indirectly, said in effect, if not in direct terms,
that Jackson did lie. in this businese2 Have
you not Thousand times said that the charge
of bargain against Adams and Clay was an
infamous calumny9 And who revived the
charge after the Kremer story exploded Vas
it any other than JdcksOH? Who charged that
the Kremer story and Jacksons letter to Bev-
erly, reviving the charge, had common ORR
gin9 Was it any other than Clsy9 Then if
the bargain story was a calumny, and Jackson
instigated kremer 10 the first place to father
it, and, after the failure of Kremer to sustain
it, Jackson fathered il himself, Is not Jackson
TO be treated as the original cdLumniator? And
yet you, who charged that the bargain story
was false, now coolly ask if Jackson passed out
of the world lying or telling the trutll Ifthe
bargain story was a calumny from the first,
was it not 80 TO the last2 YES "TBE TESTI-
MONY GIVEN BY JACKSON ON HIS
DEATH-BED WAS A FALSEHOOD;" and
yOn would say 50, too, if Buchanan were not
now the Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency. Jsckson's testimony in his pirate let
ter Of 1645 JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH.
WAS A DOUBLE FALSEuOOD. 1t ,oas a
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tglsehoOd against Buchanan; aud you know it
and believe it il your heart, as everybody be-
lieves; and you would say so if the truth serv-
ed the purpose of injurng Buchanan as well
as a lie. 1t was a falsehood against Clay and
Adams, because it again insnuated the old ex-
ploded bargain SANDER. aud it was talsehOod
against Buchanan, because it impugned testl-
mony which stood uncOntradicted for eighteen
long years during which time Jackson gave
the highest possible roofs of his confidence in
Buch8nan's truth and honor, which estopped
him ever after from calling his testimony in
question. Ecen RhOD, NothingiSm ought to
be ashamed Of GiSgrdcing .JacksOR By aLLuding
10 his insane letter Of 1915.
"There was no bargain" says the Journal;
but .here Was bargain, said jackson. Aud
Jackson insoently asserted the charge in the
very letter of l645, which the Journal relies
on to convict buchanan of giving false testi-
mony when he refuted Jackson and yindicated
Clay. This assertion was in the cool and inso-
lent form of treating the question as if the fact
that Clay and Adams bad made corr upt bar,
gain, was q thing not yet TO be established by
proof, bat IS a thing which had been proved,
or WAS to be taken for granted. he didn't
know whether Buchanan viewed "the affair of
the intrigue of Adams and Clay" as a corrupt
one, but he knew il!
If JacksOns reputation suffers-Gs 10 cannot
but suffer in the minds of all honest meH-in
consequence OF the production of his shame
full letter of 1S45, let the blame fall, not on the
heads of those who examine and construe ii
logically, but on those who, for the purpose
of injuring Buchanan, have published the IN
fortunate ebullitiun to the world. There Is not
one independent, honest minded Democrat in
the United States, whose opinion Of Mr.. Bu-
chanans character and honor can be impaired
by Jdcksons mean pirate letter IF lS45. And
there IL not friend Of Clay aud Adams who
does not regard with adherence be hypocriti.
ca pretenders of veneer e. n for tier memory,
who attempt TO raise q question of veracity
against Buchanan on the authority of this in-
sane letter Of Jackson's The offence of EN-
plOyiDg that letter for such purpose, is a
more grevous one, If possible against those
dead patriots, then even aga nst the living Blu
ohanan. The former can no longer vndicste
or revenge themselves; the latter can. But,
happily, neither the living nor the dead Can
be impaired in reputation by such q coarse dis
play of insane rsncor. The only charitable
construction which can pussibly be put upon
Jaokson's letter, more diSgrdcftuL to hinlseL
than injurious to the objects Of his mlaltgnity,
is that He WAS MORALLY IRRESPONSI-
BILE WHEN lie WROTE IT.-Lou Cour.,
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