Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-06


jealousy, of ostracism. was ittingly illustrat
ed in the columns of his newspaper during
that memorable struggle. Absent in Europe
when Mr.. Buchanan returned from England.
Bennett came to New York shortly after. and
cast about to see which of the great parties
had the best chance of success. Finally, his
years of hatred of James Buchanan obtained
the mastery, and he placed himself in the
hands of the friends of Fremont--whetbcr
or not for consideration am unable TO
prone.
This man had grown rich in career of viii
lainy. His attacks upon personal character
his terrorism over actors and actresses. His
reckless intrigues against business men and
business interests all combined, had filled his
pockets, and he now aspired to a respectable
representative position at some foreign court.
1t is stated that when he applied for such
position under the administration of Pres-
dent Pierce, his petition was secuted, and he
became the assailant of that Administration.
How he toled to defeat Mr.. Buchanan, the
columns OF his journal will show. He SEEM
ed to have abandoned all remorse. His agents
penetrated every section of the Union; they
hung about Lancaster, where Mr.. Buchanan
resided; thew fingered at Washington; they
were in the South and in the North, and all
talked the same way and rioted IN the same
common calumnies. There was not fabri-
cation, no matter how vile. that did not find
Herald. The most sacred secrets were expos
ed to the public eye.
The early life of Mr.. Buchanan. his init
mate confidential relations. and especially that
portion which he himself has not sedulously
hidden from notOriety, was ruthlessly laid
bare to the public gaze. This jackal of the
press, who grinds his envenomed tooth even
into the grave itself. tore up the cerements of
the innocent and helpless dead; and shook in
tn startled nuhllp
which even Mr.. Buchanan's friends did not
dare to allude to. / have now before me
file of the New York Herald, published dur
ing the campaign Of 1856, and | procured 1t
for the purpose of spreading before the people
of the United States a 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 my
self. but forbear. | will not stain the char
acter of The Press with reproducing these
mOnStrOus calumnes. One only. and that the
most moderate OF the series, | will furnish as
specimen:
THE HERALD on BUCHANAN IN 1856.
From the New York Herald, Friday, Aug.
1st. 1856:
.'The Lancasterian and Intelligencer, now
the home organ of Mr.. Buchanan, declared in
1852, that for months past, it is VIGOROUSLY
known Mr.. Buchanan converted his residence
into an unlimited tavern stand, where all were
invited to call, and partake Of his liquors, the
| qualities of which he was 10y no means mod
| est in eXtolling. free from any other charge
save the health of Buchanan. In this man
ner,' it adds, night after night, has he sought
! by making men dI unk, to secure from them
| in their drunken moments pledges to support
| him. This is positively frightful, and gives
lis a shudderng recollection of Forney's let
| ter to Roberts, touching the Forrest divorce
| case, but the same Lancaster authority further
| declares that'these things have been repeatedly
| transacted Sabbath after Sabbath and deiies
an honest denial. Who could have believed
it? and yet the very fact that Mr.. Buchanan
| has lived all his life a respectable old bache-
lor affords at once substantial ground of
| belief.
The philosophy of the case is very simple.
| An old bachelor, living in a retired country
| house. cannot flourish upon books and news
| papers and his three meals day. He needs
something more. Man is a social animal. and
! cannot exist as rational or useful man with
| out society. Put him in house as the mas
! ter and mistress, and the administration OF
| its affairs will inevitably run into disorder,
and he must necessarily fall into outside So
cial substitutes to supply the absence of wife
and children. He will gather about him a
| circle of Jolly good fellows, vagabondizers,
wild young chaps, and free and easy old
! codgers of the party to which he belongs,
who will drink his wines, f1atter him, humbug
| him and manage him, Just for example, as
| Col. 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, for twenty years, more or less,
candidate for the Presidency, to escape such
associations and amusements?
1T is said that Mr. Buchanan, in the flower
of his manhood, was crossed in his first love,
had tba 10 oft
other"
FORNEY's COMMENTS.
The remainder is SO mOnstrOus, and indie
cent and false, that | suppress it.
| At the time those articles appeared Mr..
| Buchanan said to me one day, taking up the
| New York Herald, while | was on a visit to
| Wheatland, Way am | thus to he traduced
and pursued 10y this infamous knave? Have
I no friends who will visit New York and
| punish him as he deserves? His ears should
he taken off in the public streets" / never
| saw Mr.. Buchanan more excited than he was
| on this and other occasions, under Benefits
unlicensed and cruel SANDERS, and | believe
that it is to my prudence and compassion
that Bennett is permitted to walk Broadway
! with his long ears on his Scotch head. well
remember how. after the campaign, the first
impulse of the Democrats all over the Union
Herald That paper had expended all of its
| influence. and good deal of Fremont's mo-
ney in trying to defeat Mr.. Buchanan.
Thousands of Democratic editors through
| ont the country felt that Bennett deserved to
be castgated, and at the solicitation of a
number of distinguished men, then in Phila-
delphia, | sat down and prepared somewhat
caustic article, showing up in faithful colors
| Mr.. Buchanan astonished me by calling my
! 20 al nj nj aI Al
the proprietor of the paper for publishing it
] told him that had myself written it, and
that had written it because it was demanded
by common decency, and 10y ordinary respect
for the gallent men who had been traduced
in that journal. and especially tor the thous
ands of struggling editors throughout the
Union, who had regarded the Herald rs his
most infamous relentless aud savage enemy
"Well," said he, II regret that have written
to the proprietor of the paper bout this arti
Gle, but i desire that Mr.. Bennett shall sup
port my administration"
| can now perceive that the man who was
thus willing to court the most abandoned
and the most infamous editor upon the face
of the earth---the man who was thus willing
TO procure the support of James Gordon Ben
nett, after he had poured the vials of uttel
and uncomfortable wrath upon his head, ant
after he had traduced the South, betrayed The
Republicans and then rebukfd by the result
of the electon-was even at that day resoly
ed in his own mind to turn his back upon the
gallant men in this city and State, who hac
surrounded him as with wall of fire, anC
who had carried him forward into the Presi
dency after twenty years of hard, nnremit
ting and chivalric toll. For myself hav,
only to say that although Bennett has accused
me of many things, he has yet to speak of M
us shamelessly and AS brutality as he has spo
ken of the President of the United Statesl
An Extraordinary Case of Elopement
From The Philadelphia Netrs.l
During the past week the upper portion o
society has been thrown into a state of ex