Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-02
From the Louisville Journal.
Mr.. Buchanan's Infamous Position.

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From the Louisville Journal
Mr.. Buchanan's Infamous Position.
| One of the Sag Nicht papers of this city, allu-
ding to our call upon tie friends of Mr. Buchanan
| to obtain his consent that Gov. Letcher shah pub
lish a statement OF what occurred at the Interview
| between Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Buchanan, in January
1926, says that Gov. Letcher can apply to Mr.. Bn
chanan for the requisite authority, and that it
would be undoubtedly granted without the slight
est hesitation All this is very COOL most certain.
| ly. The world knows that Gov. Letcher, to serve
his ustrious friend, wrote several years ago to
Mr. Buchanan, asking his consent to the publica.
ton OF the facts of the interview of 1925 and that
Mr.. Buchanan, In letter given to the public In
Colton's biography, peremptorily refused and
sternly held Gov Letcher to the pledge of silence
made at the termination Of the interview. Gov.
Letcher, after having once applied to Mr.. Buchan-
| an, and being refused and reminded of his pledge.
could not now, without violation of propriety and
| selfrespect, apply again. Not If Mr.. Buchanans
| friends dare see and dare let the world see the
statement which Gov. Letcher in vain sought the
privilege Of making for the benefit of a great and
illuminated patriot, and which that patriot subse.
quently requested his bographer to obtain if pos
sible from Gov Letcher then let them make the
experiment of trying to obtain from their man the
consent that for more than thiry-one years he has
pertinaciously withheld. Let them do this on ac-
knowledge that there is in the life of their cand-
date an infamy which they have not the courage to
see developed
The supporters Of Buchanan need not attempt
to affect high tone in speaking of what they call
his Willingness that everything pertaining to his
conduct toward Mr.. Clay shall be known. No such
willingness exists or has existed, or is likely
| to exist. Mr. Clay has left on record from his own
| hand, that, when he was sorey pressed, during
| the administration of John @. Adams, with the
charge OF bargain and corruption, he notified Mr..
BuchanansOf his intention to publish what had
passed between them, but was prevented by that
gentlemans earnest entreaties from doing so. And
as often afterwards as Mr.. Clay threatened for his
own sake and his partys, to speak out, he was re-
strained by Mr.. Buchanan's abject supplications
And, when Governor Letcher applied for the right
to speak the truth for his ilustrious friend Mr.
Buchanan, as we have seen, gnominiousy and
shamelessly held him to an old pledge. And now
hundreds of American papers are earnestly and
even clamorously calling upon Mr.. Buchanan to
assent,to the publication of letter, unquestiona-
bly, a most extraordinary one, written by himself
to MIR. Clay, the letter which Mr.. Clay so often
said to his friends should never be published un-
less at the call of his country, and which he also
said would, If published, crush Mr.. Buclanan-
Under all the circumstances the country must
certainly conclude and say that James Buchanan
is the last man in the world whose friends have n
right to put on airs and talk about his willingness
that publicity shall be given to his words and
Deeds
What contrast there is between men. Aiew
years before the death of General jackson, ru-
NOR was published that he had made certain
statement in private letter. Instantly the indig.
nant old man published that every human being
was fully authorized to give to the world any and
every letter ever written by him., no matter to
whom or upon what subject That was honest
and manly and bold. It was worthy of n man
conscious of rectitude. How different, how mis-
erably different, is the conduct Of JAS Buchanan,
forbidding Governor Letcher, and repeatedly and
piteousy imploring Mr. Clay not to make pub
lication of facts in relation to him, and withhold.
ing, in defiance of the daily and hourly taunts of
his political enemies and the secret wonder and
scorn of his political friends, his consent to the
publication OF letter written by himself to an
immortal patriot upon whom he had inflicted Il
deep, terrible, and most accursed wrongl AS
matters stand, what man, with the feelings of one,
would support James Buchanan for the Presi-
dency of the United States
Who dares stand up and proclaim that he be-
heves James Buchanan an honorable or honest
man? Hany man dares to do II, let that man call
on James Buchanan to remove the seal of silence
from the lips of the Hon. r. P. Letcher, and to
authorize the publication of his correspondence
with Henry Clayi Does not every person know
that these matters have been the subject of fire.
quent and earnest consultation between Mr.. Blu.
chanan and his friends since his nomination, and
that his persistent refusal to let Mr. Lecher speak
or to let his correspondence with Mr.. Clay come
forth, is the result of his own consciousness of
guilt and shameY
Our GOLD MINEs.--The proprietor Of the Gras-
ty Gold Mines, in Orange county, near the Spott-
sylvania line, is about shipping to England some
fifty tons of ore, for the purpose of being tested
by the parties meditating a purchase Of the mines
The United States Gold Mines in this county
are about being opened and put in working order
by Colonel Morgan. This mine is owned by Thos.
Hunt, OF New York, well known as a most success
full speculator in California.
We understand that $40 per ton has been offer
ed for an immense bed Of sand, &C., washings at
the Vaucluse Mine, but refused There are thou
sands of tons of this material heretofore reckoned
OF little value, but which has paid Sl5 per ton
when worked by machinery of modern construc-
tion, for the saving Of the finer particles OF gold.
We understand that party from the North
have recently visited the Mitchell Mine in the mp
per part of this county, owned by Jonathan John
son aud - Andrews who profess to be much
pleased with their examination. 1t is said that the
parties examining place a value Of $l50,ooo upon
the mine. ~
The Gardiner Gold Mine, in this county, Is re-
ported as yielding fine return to those engaged,
--Frederfck Herald.
The STATE OF ARcHITEcrURE ON THE LUNAR
SURFAcE.-Though negative in their results, the