The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-13

North, and all talked the same way and rioted
| in the same common calumnies There was
not fabrication, no matter how vile, that did
not find ready circulation through the columns
OF the Herald The most sacred secrets were
exposed to the public eye. The early life OF
Mr.. Buchanan, his intimate confidential rela-
tions. and especially that portion which he him.
self has most sedulously hidden from notoriety.
was truihlessly laid bare to the vulgar gaze.
This jackal Of the press, who grinds his en-
venomed tooth even into the grave itself, tore
open the cerements Of the innocent and help
! tied public secrets which even Mr.. Buchanan s
intimate friends did not dare to allude to. !
have now before me file of the New York
Herald, published during the campaign Of
1856. and | procured it for the purpose al
spreading before the people Of the UnitedStates
few OF the shameless fabrications of Bennett
against the person and the character Of the
President, in order to contrast them with his
present abuse of myself but forbear. | will
not stain the columns of The Press with pro-
ducing these monstrous calumnes. One only.
and that the most moderate of tne series, will
furnish as specimen
From the New York Herald, Friday, Aug.
lst, 1856:
"The Lancasterian and Intelligcncer. now
the home organ Of Mr.. Buchanan, declared, in
1852, that for months past it is notoriously
known Mr.. Buchanan converted his residence
into an unlimited tavern stand, where all
were invited to CALL and partake of his Ii
quors, the qualities OF which he was by no
means modest in extolling free from any other
charge, save the health of Buchanan. In this
manner, it adds, might after night. has he
sought, by making men drunk, to secure from
them III their drunken moments pledges to sup
port him. This is positively frightfi., and
gives lis shuddering recollection Of Forney S
letter to Roberts, touching the Forrest divorce
case: but The same Lancaster authority iurth-
er declares that these things have been re-
peatedly transacted, Sabbath after Sabbath
and dees all honest denial. Who couid have
believed it? and yet the very fact that Mr.
Buchanan has lived all his life respectable
old bachelor affords at once q substantial
ground of belief.
..The philosophy of the case is very simple
An old bachelor, living in 4 retired country
house, cannot flourish upon books and newsp,-
pers, and his three meals Il day. lie needs
something more. Man is social animal, and
cannot exist as o rational or uselui man with
out society. Put him in It house as the mas
ter and mistress, and the administration OF lis
affairs will inevitably run into disorder. and he
must necessarily fall into outside social snbSti-
tutes to supply the absence Of wife and chil
dren. He viii gather about him circle Of
jolly good fellows, vagabondizers wild youn5
chaps, and free e-and-easy old codgers, Of the
party to which he belongs. who will drink his
wines, llat,er him, humhug him. and manage
him Just for example. as Colonel Forney and
his set have managed and are managing Mr..
Buchanan. A wife in the house admits of no
such family arrangements. But how could we
expect genial, well-to-do old bachelor, 70
twenty years more or less, candidate for the
Presidency, to escape associations and amuse-
ments
1T is said that Mr. Buchanan, in the flower
of his manhood, was crossed in his first love,
and never had the courage to look after an
another"
The remainder is so monstrous and indecent,
and false that suppress it.
At the time these articles appeared Mr..
Buchanan said to ME one day, taking up the
New York Herald, while was on visit to
Wheatland, "Nhy AIN thus to be traduccd
and pursued by this Infamous knavc? Have |
no friends who will visit New York and punish
him as he deserves? His ears should be taken
off in the public streets" | never saw Mr..
Buchanan more excited than he was on this
and other occasions, under Bcnrett's unlicensed
and cruel ISLANDERS, and | believe that it is to
my prudence am. compassion that Bennett Is
this day permitted to Wal, broadway with his
long ears Oh his Scotch head. we'll remcm-
Der how, after the campaign, the first impulse
cf the democrats all over the Union WAS to
have settlement with the New \ ork Herald.
That paper had expended all Of its influence
and good deal Of Fremont's money in trying
to defeat Mr.. Buchanan. Thousands OF Dem
ocratic editors throughout the country felt that
Bennett deserved to be castigated, and at the
solicitation of a number Of distinguished men,
then in Philadelphia, sat down and prepared
a somewhat caustic article, showing him up III
faithful colors. Mr.. Buchanan astonshed me
by calling my attention to this article and CON-
plained Of the proprietor OF the paper for
publishing it. told him that had myself
written il, and that had written it because it
was demanded BY common decency. and by Or
binary respect for the gallant men who had
been traduced in that Journal, and especially
for the thousand of struggling editors through
out the Union who had regarded the Herald as
his most infamous, relentless, and savage enc
my. Well said he, II regret that have
written to the proprietor of the paper about
this article, but | lesue that Mr.. Benncft shall
support my Administration" can now per-
ceive that the man who was thus willing to
court the most abandoned and most infamous
editor upon the face Of the earth-the man who
was thus willing to procure the support Of
James Gordon Bennett after he had poured
out the vials Of utter and inconceivable wrath
upon his head, and after he had traluced the
South. betrayed the Republicans, and been re-
buked by the result OF the election-was even
at that day resolved in his own mind to turn
his back upon the gallant men in this city and
State, who had surrounded him as with wall
of fire, and who had carried him forward into
the Presidency after twenty years OF hard, I'M
renting, and chyalric toll. For myself
have only to say that although Bennett has
accused me of many things, he has yet to
speak of me as shamelessly and as brutal
ly as he has spoken OF the President OF the
United States
The Washington Union and other lecomp-
ton organs have expended great Indignation
against what they are pleased to call the pub
fishing of private conversations. | conferred
with Mr. Buchanan as with public man OF a
public question. That which he has said to