Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-10-05

Buchanan obtained the mastery. and lac placed
himself in the hands Of the friends If Fremont
whether or not for a consideration am unable
to prore. This man had grown rich in career
of yllainy. His attacks unoD personal character,
his terrorism over aetors and actresses his reck
less antiques against business men and bu-
sness interests, all combined, had filed his
pockets. and he now aspired TO respectable rep
lre-entative position ut some foreign Court
II is stated that when he applied for such posi-
ton under the administration Of Presiden. Pierce
his petition was secuted, and he became the as
sailant Of that Administration. How he toied
to defeat Mr.. Buchanan the columns Of his iour-
nal will show lie seemed TO have abandoned all
remorse. His agents penetrated every section Of
the Union; they hung about Lancaster where Mr.
Buchanan resided; they fingered at Washington;
they we're in the South and in the North, and all
talked the samc way, and rioted in the same
mon calumnies There was not a fabrication, no
matter how vile, that did not find ready circula-
ton through the columns Of The Herald The
most sacred secrets were exposed to the public
eye. The early life Of Mr.. Buchanan, his init
mate confidential relations and especially that
portion which he himself has most seduousy hid
den from notoreiy, WAS ruthlessly laid bare Ia
the vulgar gnze. This jackal Of the press, who
grinds his enyenomed tooth even into the grave
ITSELF tore open the cercments of the innocent and
helpless dead, and shook into the eees OF the star
tied public, secrets which Mr.. Buchanan's init
mate friends did not dare allude to.
At the time these articles appeared Mr.. Buch-
anan said to me one day. taking up the ~ Y
Herald. while was on n visit 10 Wheatland,
why am thus TO DO traduced and pursued by
this Infamous knnvc! Have no friends who will
visit New York and punish him as he deserves?-
His shouldb be taken Of in the public streets"
| mover saw Mr. buchanan moro excited than he
was on this and other occasions under Benefits
unlicensed and cruel ISLANDERS, and believe that it
is to my prudence and compassion that Bennett
il this day permitted 10 walk Broadway. with his
long on his Scotch head. Iwell remember
how, after the campaign, the first impulse Of tho
Democrats all over the Union, was 10 have
settlement with The New York Herald.
That paper had expended all of its influence aud
n good deal Of frcmonts m"ney in trying 10 de-
feat Mr.. Buchanan. Thousands Of Democratic
editors throughout tho country felt that Bennett
deserved to be castigntrI and ut the solicitation
of n number Of distinguished men. then in Phila-
'lelpha, sat down aud prepared "A somewhat
ransic article. showing him up in faithful coors.
Mr.. Buchanan a-toni-hed me by calling nv at
ention to this article. and complained OF the pro-
prietor Of the paper for publishing it. told HIM
That had myself written it, and that hnd writ
en it because it was demanded by common do
,ency. and by ordinary respect for the gallant
who had been trnduccd in that JOURNAL aud
pe,ally for the thousands Ut struggling editors
throughout the Union who had regarded The
Herald IN his most Infamous, relentless and say
age enemy. Well" said he. 81 regret that
II have written to the proprietor Of the paper
- about this article but desire TINT Mr.. Bennett
" shall support my Administrations" | can now
perceive that the man who was thus willing to
court the most abandoned and most Infamous cdi
tor upon tho face Of the carth-thc man who was
thus willing 10 procure the support Of James
Gordon Bennett after he had poured the Walls 81
utter and neouccsalr wrath upon his head. and
after he had tradu,el the South, betrayed the Re-
politicians and been rchukei by the result of the
even AT that day resolved in his own
mnd to turn HIS back upon tho gallant men in
this city and STATE, who had surrounded him
with II wall Of fire, aud who had carried him for
ward into the Presidency nlter twenty years of
hard, unremit,ng, and chyalric toll. For myself.
have only to sa, that although Bennett has
used me of man, things he has yet to speak Of
me- ms shameeS-ly and rs hruay as he has
'poken Of the President of the United States