The Empire County argus., 1856-09-13
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TESTIMONY OF ONE VINO KNows.-We have re-.
ceived the suboincd communication, saws the Sacra-
mento American in reference to certain incidents in
the life of James Buchanan, from wellknown c;t;-
zen of Sacramento, who is personally cognizant of
the facts stated. 1t proves conclusively Mr. Buchan
ans cold and selfish character
Messrs. Ed.tors:-I have often heard politicians
ask what James Buchanan has done. Now srs.
propose to tell the people one or two things that
know he has done, and hope it will be kept before
them During the war of 1912, James Buchanan
stood in the legislative halls of his native State and
there abused the administration of James Madison,
and denounced the true men and patriots of coun-
try for carrying on the war. | was in Platsburg,
blowing the bellows and striking on pure American
iron, for my uncle to make bolts and spkes TO fasten
the planks on the bottom and sides of the shin Sara
toga, which ship bore the flag of the Immortal Nc
Donough; and may here say, those planks were
Yankee oak (nO pine nor dog wood among them nor
rotten as the panks of the platform that Mr.. Bu-
chanan now is On) And well do l remember the ex-
citement when the news of his speech came. l was
then but boy having been born in 1900. So
great the excitement, collected together some
thirty or forty and made an image, and should have
burned him in efigy, but during the day the British
Ieet appeared in sight, and it was not prudent to
make fire at night ] heard no more of him until
the fall and winter of l62425 and then it was about
his circulating the report that j. Z. Adams and
Henry Clay had made bargain-that he was to be
President and the other Secretary Of State; and,
sirs if any wishes to know who said that Buchan-
an circulated that Infamous sandtr, can tell them
| 1t was John Randolph, of Roanoke.
But, sirs this is not all. In the winter 1925, in
Alexandria, ID. G., we had great fire. There was
scarcely any water to be got; the Potomac River
was frozen over, about eighteen inches thick. cut
hole through the ce and as soon us got through,
who do you think ready to take charge of it and
pass the water? James Buchanan? No, sirs. But
it was those two noble patriots and statesmen Henry
| Clay and John Quincy Adams! Clay stood on his
knees on ice more than half hour bailng up water
and handing it to Adams and he to the next in line,
and ST. on, until it reached the engine. You know
that was the way engines supplied in those days.
And where was James Buchanan? Why, he came
along all rolled up in cloak and stopped in front of
those two noble statesmen shrugged up his shoulders,
and walked off though he was dsgused.
During that year | again left and went to sea.
did not return to my native land until $40. In 1914,
heard those ISLANDERS started afesh against Mr. Clay
then denounced them, for | knew better. And,
sirs in the last public speech, think John Quincy
Adams ever made in Massachusetts, which he deliv-
cred in the City Hall in Charlestown, he there de-
cared if it the last words he to utter, that
James Buchanan the FATHER OF THAT ISLANDER,
and should he be candidate Tor the Presidential
Chair, it would come up stigma against him, and
ought to be sounded from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Yours, j. M.
Sacramento CITY Sent + I056