The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-13

most emphatically, for its unmitieated and to.
tal destitution of oil honesty and truth. No
such conversation took place, nor any conyer.
sation at all, between those parties on that sub.
ject. Mr.. Forney never had the courage to
address Mr.. buchanan in that strain. aud he
certainly had not the inpudence to offer his ad.
vice to the man Of whose personal character
he had been the habitual tfaducer for months
before Lccompton and anti Iecomptou was
thought Of
mo such conversation says the Union,
"took place, nor any conversation ct all, be-
tween those parties on :he subject"
To these general words beg to reply by
dates and facts visited Washington early
in December Of 1857 and had an in,rrp,e,r Of
some three hours trnh Dir. Buchanan o, tie
first day Of the mceting Of Congress at its late
session. That such an interview took place is
proved by the fact that it WAS announced IN
the New York Herald and New York Tri.
bune, shortly after it occurred, and in The
Pass on the I4th of December, as follows:
ut is of course not true, as everywhere tele
graphed on Friday and Saturday, that the edi-
tor of The Press was denied admission at the
Presidential mansion during his late visit to
Washington. He was not only promptly, but
most kindly received BY the President, who
knows too well the prophecies Of life to regard
nm honest difference Of opinion as pretext for
personal alienation. The men who we're a.
ways Mr.. Buchanan enemies bsiOre he became
President, and who now strive to compensate
for their bitter assaults upon his character at
Cincinnati, by assailng The Press because Of
its rcsolutc and disinterested support of "the
will of the majority" may feed their own ma
leyolence by ialsehoods like this, but do not
make fayoraale impression upon Mr.. Bu-
chanan."
So that the interview really did occur
What the object of that interview was, NAV
be imagined from the fact that no other subject
could hare been discussed 5etweea the parties for
as IhGue said IN these remarks, and as the COL
,nns Of The Press lcW stoar, l had no cause of
public difference wnh Dir. Buciqnan bevond
that Of Kansas. We had long since ceased to
talk about private matters. Not only did the
conversation as detailed. take PLACE, but, as the
many friends to whom | related it after | left
the Presidential mansion, will remember many
other things were omitted in the statement
which gave at Tarrytown Among Others
the President said TO me, IF you and Walker
and Douglas will unite in support Of my kan-
sas policy the people of Kansas will vote at
the election which is to come off on the 2lst
December" THAT election, it will be remem-
bered, having been called under the auspices
OF the minority Legislature, tor the purpose OF
putting through the Lecompton Constitution,
and was held under circumstances of fraud and
infamy which will not soon be forgotten) He
said further, II know that you have the strong
side of this question. | know that you can
carry off the people, but appeal TO you to
stand with me, because, if do not adhere to
Ia, new policy, Alabama, Georgia and Misss-
sippi VII. probably secede from the Union" Ii
is probable that the memory of Mr.. Buchanan
will be stimulated when he reads these senten-
ces As for the Washington Union, whether
it speaks for him or not in the above extract,
| am unable to say. If it does. the memory
of the President is most defective.
AS to my Offering advice to Mr.. Buchanan,
have only to remark while Mr.. Wendell, of
the Washington Union, was unknown in the
political world, and while the editors of that
same paper were coming calunmies against the
President, my advice and counsel to him was
estly solicited. spoke Us freely to him at all
times when he was not President, as did af-
ter his election and his installation.
AUbtDeT ldCt Ill CUilfltCliuu WIFI lIlS lUtcE-
view with the President may mention, and it
is this that one or two days after it transpir-
ed, returned to Philadelphia, and whilst sit
ting in my Office in Chestnut xts-cet; was vist,>.
by an old friend from Southern New York,
whom had met in Washington, and who call
ed on me to say that he had been desired by
the President to stop over and see me, and to
assure me that he (he President) intended to
make his Kansas policy test upon the Demo-
cratic party, and that no man would be tolera-
ted by his Administration who did not APP
prove and support This policy.
The Union goes on to say, speaking Of the
report of the Cabinet meeting:
"The story he tells of the Cabinet meeting
is, like the account of his own conversation,
wholly fabulous. We venture to assert that
Mr. Walker never authorized any one to say
that he insulted the President and Cabinet by
expressing suspicion that they would behave
trexcherously."
This is y somewhat fortunate denial, appear.
ing. as it does, in the Washington Union, in
asmuch as the report Of that conversation be-
tween Robert j. Walker and the Cabinet was
communicated by one of the editors of the
Washington Union, on more than one Occ:S
ion when there was no confidence imposed and
at the time that editor was the known public
and active adversary of the Kansas policy Of
the Administration. The name of that editor
is Col Simeon NJ. johnson. l believe that he
is now attached to the Washington Union, If
he denies the statement here made, shall be
compelled to make it good by furnishing the
name or names Of respectable witnesses who
were present when he described this celebrated
interview between Governor Walker and the
Cabinet, and President Buchanan /; and thus,
without calling upon Governor Walker, or the
President or the Cabinet, beg to rest this
part Of my statement upon the distinguished
authority of the editor of the Washington
Union himself.
Among those who have volunteered to sup
ply their ready abuse OF the Tarrytown speech,
notice the editor OF the New York Herald,
the Infamous james Gordon Benne t. Ad-
dressing, as do, mixed AUDIENCE, because, |
presume, this statement will be read by men
of ali parties, | am sure that commit no of
fence when recall public attention to the man
ner in which this man conducted his newspa-
per during the campaign OF 1856. A long
life of shame, life frightened by no single
deed of virtue a life OF selfshness, of jealousy,
of ostracsm, was ittingly Illustrated in the
columns of his newspaper during that inemora-
Bile gse. Absent in Europe when MIR.